CHAPAIS, Que. The pastor of a Cree Nation church and other people en route to medical appointments were among the victims of a head-on collision in rural Quebec on Thursday that killed five people.
A year after 16-year-old Neebin Icebound was found by passersby in a ditch in Waswanipi, Que., a coroner says her death could have been prevented. The community’s chief is calling for action to ensure nothing like this happens again.
Canada surpassed the record for area burned by wildfires in a single year Monday as hundreds of fires continued to blaze in almost every province and territory.
The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre says 76,129 square kilometres of forest and other land have burned since Jan. 1. That exceeds the previous record set in 1989 of 75,596 square kilometres, according to the National Forestry Database.