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Metro Vancouver has been warmer than normal this winter but meteorologists say Arctic air is on its way, dropping temperatures below zero. Sunday will be sunny but cold, with a wind chill early in the day of minus 6.Photo by Jason Payne /PNG Don’t pack away your tuques just yet, Metro Vancouver. Although it has … Read more

The forecast comes just days after 2024 was declared the warmest calendar year on record. The sun sets over the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park, near Furnace Creek, during a heatwave impacting Southern California on July 7, 2024. Temperatures in Death Valley hit 54 degrees C. Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT /AFP … Read more

Astrid Dahl criticized the home care organization she worked for when Florence Girard, who had Down syndrome, starved to death in her care in 2018 Florence Girard, seen in a family handout photo from 2006, died of starvation in a Port Coquitlam, B.C., home in 2018.Photo by HO /THE CANADIAN PRESS The caretaker convicted for … Read more

Vivek Ramaswamy arrives ahead of Donald Trump at a campaign rally at the Santander Arena, Oct. 9, 2024, in Reading, Pennsylvania. Alex Brandon via Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly nudged DOGE leader Vivek Ramaswamy, currently overseeing an effort to slash government spending, to succeed Vice President-elect JD Vance in the U.S. Senate. Trump … Read more

LOADINGERROR LOADING Democratic senators voiced their frustration Wednesday with answers from Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to head up the White House’s budget office, about how he sees the limits of presidential power. If confirmed, Vought would again head the Office of Management and Budget, which oversees spending by federal agencies and coordinates policies … Read more

Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire and hostage release deal during talks in Doha on Wednesday An Israeli air force CH-53 Sea Stallion military helicopter flies over as people gather with Israeli national flags outside Sheba Tel-HaShomer Medical Centre in Ramat Gan on June 8, 2024 where Israeli hostages were transferred after being freed … Read more

National Post reached out to nearly all 153 Liberal MPs to ask them who they intend to endorse Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland, former finance minister and deputy prime minister, leaves after a meeting of the Liberal caucus on Parliament Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025.Photo by Justin Tang/The Canadian Press/File OTTAWA — Former Bank of Canada … Read more

Kyle Crawley wanted officials to remove requirements on where he lives and to change rules restricting being near children and use of the internet An internet restriction hampers his ability to seek employment and the online nature of society makes it hard for him to reintegrate, convicted pedophile Kyle Crawley told a court.Photo by Getty … Read more

The agreement impacts potentially millions of permanent residents in Canada and even more in the U.S. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Marc Miller takes questions from reporters on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Nov. 26, 2024.Photo by Justin Tang/The Canadian Press/File OTTAWA — Top immigration lawyers say it’s “shocking” that the federal government quietly signed … Read more

P.E.I. resident Joe Velaidum found a pile of rock outside his door. His security camera saw — and heard — the space rock that made it A frame from the security camera at Joe Velaidum’s home shows the space rock (circled) a fraction of a second before it hits the ground.Photo by University of Alberta … Read more