When it comes to winter adventures, Quebec offers skiers the best of all worlds: legendary mountains, lively villages, and a treasure trove of affordable and lesser-known ski destinations woven throughout the province. Whether you're planning a family getaway, a bucket-list trip from the UK, or seeking authentic local vibes, here's your insider guide to skiing Quebec's major icons-and the wallet-friendly gems waiting to be discovered.
He said insulation was slowly burning in the walls and between the two buildings, which has led to smoke and high levels of carbon monoxide. This is going to be a prolonged event every time we thought we had it under control, it came back up, said Jessop, adding residents of both buildings have been evacuated. This is certainly probably the most challenging fire to extinguish that Toronto has seen in years.
TorontoNew The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A male pedestrian is dead after he was struck by a tractor-trailer in Vaughan on Thursday evening, York Regional Police say. The collision happened in the intersection of Highway 7 and Islington Avenue at about 7:20 p.m. Police officers, firefighters and paramedics attended the scene. Police have closed the intersection in all directions as they investigate.
The data is part of the latest update from the province's Financial Accountability Office (FAO). It highlights Ontario's economic struggles between April and September in the months immediately after U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policies were imposed. It also delves deeper into the province's shrinking manufacturing sector, which the FAO says has shed approximately 20,600 jobs over the past two years and has been put under increased pressure because of the trade war.
The agreement comes with up to $39.5 million, matching the amount promised to Webequie First Nation through an agreement it signed with the province last month. The province also signed a shared prosperity agreement with Aroland First Nation in January. Premier Doug Ford says unlocking critical minerals in the Ring of Fire a crescent-shaped mineral deposit in the James Bay lowlands in northwestern Ontario will add $22 billion to Canada's economy and create 70,000 new jobs.
"Roads could get iced up rather quickly, said Mark Schuster, operational meteorologist with Environment Canada, noting highways could see the worst conditions. Regions north and northeast of Toronto could see significant snowfall into the evening hours, he said. The risk of snow squalls, or bursts of heavy snow, is expected late Thursday morning and in the afternoon with about two centimeters of snow coming down in total."
J ulian Canadien, a Dene man from Kakisa, Northwest Territories, is swarmed by black flies while he pulls weeds from the soil beneath his feet. The bugs don't bother him much. He's the only paid employee at the community garden, where his job is to prune and clear the rows of vegetables, water the produce, and churn the compost. And he likes his job.
The report was issued today by the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, or LEAF, and the nonprofit Community Justice Initiatives. It says the Crown policy deprives those who have experienced sexual harm from choosing the form of justice that best fits their needs. Restorative justice is an approach that allows those harmed and those who take responsibility for said harm to reach a resolution together, typically with the help of a facilitator.
That year, the committee noticed there had been five recent local deaths involving e-bike riders: A man in his 60s who'd been hit by a car while turning at an intersection. A man in his 50s who lost control of his e-bike, jumped the curb and struck a light standard. A man in his 50s who was riding in a bike lane when he was hit by a car turning into a parking lot.
The deal averts a potential death knell for the Ontario Deposit Return Program, as some grocers warned they would refuse to accept empties as required starting Jan. 1, the same day the Beer Store is allowed to close an unlimited number of locations. Details are still being worked out, but the broad strokes of the agreement mean that consumers will continue to exchange empties for their deposits at Beer Store locations, with grocers footing the bill and the brewers committing to ensuring there is a point of recycling available within 10 kilometres for the vast majority of the population.
Low oil and natural gas prices are taking a toll on the industry as drilling activity is falling in Western Canada and is expected to slide further in 2026. North American oil prices remain below $60 US per barrel, after climbing to more than $80 in January. As a result, oil and gas companies are cutting costs, and total capital spending is expected to decline by 5.6 per cent this year and a further 2.2 per cent in 2026,
In a news release Tuesday, the RCMP said its Central Ontario team and GTA integrated national security enforcement team arrested the individual on Nov. 4 and charged them with participating in activities of a terrorist group. The activities allegedly included editing and publicly posting ISIS propaganda videos, the RCMP said. The youth was also charged with inviting a person to provide property, such as firearms, for the intended use of facilitating or carrying out terrorist activity, the RCMP said.
In 2000, Canadian law formally recognized a reality that many people had been living with for years, same sex couples in long term relationships. Parliament passed the Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Act, amending 68 different federal statutes to extend protections and responsibilities to common law partners and including same sex couples for the first time. Angela Misri 0:30 Welcome to Canadian Time Machine, a podcast that explores key milestones in our country's history. I'm Angela Misri.
A dramatic decline in international student numbers in Canada shows how internationalization globally is "evolving," with the concept of the "big four" recruitment destinations seen as increasingly outdated. The country is on track to issue about 80,000 new study permits this year, way below the cap of 437,000 its federal government set for 2025. This has not stopped the cap being reduced even more, with the budget announced earlier this month confirming that it will be set at 155,000 next year-although the country could struggle to reach even this revised figure on the latest projections.
Thieves left an unusual deposit at an Etobicoke bank while attempting an illegal withdrawal Monday morning. Around 3 a.m., officers were called to a break and enter in progress at a CIBC branch, Toronto police said in an email. They found that someone had used a backhoe to break through the bank's exterior wall into the ATM room. No injuries were reported and no one is in custody, police said.
All three people who were unaccounted for after a deadly fire at a home in Brampton, Ont., have been located two of them dead and the third safe, police said Monday. Peel Region police and Ontario's fire marshal's office gave an update on the ongoing investigation into the Thursday morning blaze that destroyed a home and prompted the evacuation of several others nearby.
In the latest in a string of violent crypto robberies, a four-person gang held a Canadian family hostage overnight and stole about $2 million CAD ($1.6 million USD) in Bitcoin. The attackers threatened to kill the family, waterboarded the mother and father, and sexually assaulted their daughter after invading their Vancouver-area home. The crime occurred in April 2024, but the details of the scene were revealed last week in a sentencing report by a British Columbia judge, first reported by CBC.
Support staff at Central West Specialized Development Services (CWSDS) a supportive living community for adults with developmental disabilities walked off the job on Wednesday evening more than 40 days after CWSDS management requested a no-board report.
Fraser said it seemed like Education Minister Paul Calandra was hiding something amidst claims the results were being held for further analysis. There is no reason for him to withhold those tests, said Fraser, adding the tests are an important teaching tool for educators and children. There's no discernible reason unless the results are just a reflection of the fact that class sizes are too large and special education has been starved.
A 23-year-old Toronto man, who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for over a year, was arrested Friday, according to Toronto Police. Around 11:20 p.m. on Friday police found and arrested the accused, who was in a car near Bathurst Street and Dupont Street, police said in a news release on Saturday. A firearm and ammunition were also found, police say.
N early seven months after an election that returned a minority Parliament and a government led by the Liberal Party with Prime Minister Mark Carney at the helm, Canadians would be forgiven for asking what they're meant to be doing with their elbows. During the election, the Liberals ran on elbows-up nationalism, striking a defiant posture in the face of tariff and sovereignty threats from United States president Donald Trump. Carney never promised to solve
A controversial new law that will give Ontario's education minister more power over school boards and other facets of the education system has passed in the province's legislature. Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government passed the Supporting Children and Students Act, also known as Bill 33, on Wednesday and it received royal assent a day later. The legislation grants Education Minister Paul Calandra the power to place school boards under provincial supervision when they "fall off the rails," as he said Wednesday.
In a statement on Thursday, George Brown said it will have "suspended intakes" for 2026-2027 in some programs that are part of its hospitality and culinary arts program. Enrolment has been suspended in the following programs: culinary arts Italian; advanced French patisserie; food and nutrition management; event planning; food and beverage management restaurant management; hospitality hotel operations management; and honours Bachelor of Business Administration hospitality.
Mississauga firefighters are shown here at the scene of collision on Thursday evening that left a man injured and a male youth in life-threatening condition. (CBC News) Two people have been taken to hospital, one in life-threatening condition, following a collision in Mississauga on Thursday evening, Peel police say. The crash between two vehicles happened on Millcreek Drive and Erin Mills Parkway, police said.
More pistachio and pistachio-containing products have been recalled in Canada over concerns about possible salmonella contamination. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says the following products, sold by vendors in Ottawa and Mississauga, Ont., are under recall: Green pistachios, in varying quantities, sold at the SNMB Roasted Nut Factory at 2399 Cawthra Rd. Unit 42, Mississauga, Ont., from Aug. 11 through Oct. 10.
Last offseason, the Toronto Blue Jays were the butt of many baseball fans' jokes after they swung-and-missed on a number of premier free agents, including Juan Soto and Roki Sasaki. Anthony Santander was their biggest signing in years, and he had a disastrous maiden campaign in Toronto. It appeared the Blue Jays were having trouble convincing players to come to Canada to play for a would-be contender.
