Indigenous News

OTTAWA — If a single mother with a newborn baby starts looking for city-subsidized housing in Canada's largest urban centre today, she might see her child enter high school before they find a new home.

OTTAWA — Parents across the country are getting ready to tap into registered education savings plans to help pay for their children's post-secondary schooling this fall. After years of saving, the time has come to start spending those nest eggs.

Major League Rugby's Atlanta franchise is moving to Los Angeles. Rugby ATL is scheduled to play out of L.A. starting with the 2024 season, upon closing of the team's acquisition by the new ownership group.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today...

OTTAWA — Secretly filming and sharing footage of consensual sex constitutes a sexual assault, according to an Ottawa judge's recent ruling, sparking a debate over how courts view consent in cases involving technology.

The approval of a fast-acting, short-term medication in the United States to treat postpartum depression has Canadian maternal health experts and advocates hoping people north of the border will soon have access to the same treatment.

MONTREAL — From great white sharks around Quebec's Îles-de-la-Madeleine to lobsters conquering new territory, oceanographers say the warming of the Gulf of St. Lawrence is having an impact on the creatures that live in its unique ecosystem.

VANCOUVER — About 80 campers have been evacuated from Cathedral Provincial Park in southern British Columbia after being trapped overnight by a nearby wildfire.

TORONTO — The winning numbers in Wednesday's Lotto 649 draw for an estimated $5 million: 02, 03, 06, 07, 17 & 27.

YELLOWKNIFE — Some 20,000 residents in the capital of the Northwest Territories have been ordered to leave by Friday as wildfire danger in the region intensifies.