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Record-breaking sizzling temperatures hitting parts of eastern B.C. and the Prairies is extremely significant and signals how global warming is making heat waves across the region, an Environment Canada meteorologist says.

MORINVILLE, Alta. — Alberta's premier is condemning what he calls "arson attacks at Christian churches" after a historic parish was destroyed in a fire that prompted a small town to cancel its Canada Day celebrations.

WHITEHORSE — Yukon's chief public health officer paused and fought back tears as he urged residents to follow COVID-19 public health orders to help fight widespread community transmission that has pushed hospitals to their limits. Dr.

OTTAWA — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she is "disturbed" by the military's decision to let the commander of the Royal Canadian Navy keep his job after golfing with the former chief of the defence staff under military police investigat

OTTAWA — Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde says there are no guarantees an Indigenous delegation travelling to the Vatican will lead to Pope Francis apologizing in Canada for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools —

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he asked that the national flag on the Peace Tower remain at half-mast for Canada Day to honour the Indigenous children who died in residential schools.

A Toronto man has now been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal poisoning of a three-year-old child.

SHERBROOKE, Que. — The Crown prosecutor's office in Quebec says the last known Hells Angels bunker in the province has been demolished. A spokeswoman confirmed the notorious red-roofed landmark was torn down today in Sherbrooke, Que.

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 3:50 p.m. Saskatchewan is reporting 31 new cases of COVID-19 today, and no new deaths. Sixty more people have recovered, leaving the province with 435 active cases.

EDMONTON — An Ontario truck driver held his face and cried as he apologized to his family and the family of a woman he killed in an Edmonton hotel room.