Spain endured its hottest day of the year on Saturday, August 14, 2021, with temperatures topping 45 degrees Celsius (113 F), while authorities in Italy expanded the number of cities on red alert for health risks to 16 as a heat wave engulfed Southern Europe.
A federal election campaign became all but imminent on Saturday, August 14, 2021, as the office of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed plans to visit the Governor General in hopes of triggering a national vote.
Evidence that a federal election is on the horizon continued to mount on Saturday, August 14, 2021, as the Liberal party unveiled a series of campaign-style advertisements a day before the widely anticipated vote is expected to be called.
Each morning at a transit facility in Canton, Ohio, more than a dozen buses pull up to a fueling station before fanning out to their routes in this city south of Cleveland.
The Trudeau government is promising to resettle 20,000 refugees who have already fled Afghanistan even as months of frustration turn to outright fear over the fate of hundreds of former interpreters and their families still stuck in the country.
The lines of attack have been traced for months, but now federal parties' battle plans are poised to go into effect with an election campaign set to kick off on Sunday, August 15, 2021.
A surge in COVID-19 cases spurred by the Delta variant is prompting British Columbia health officials to enact mandatory vaccine requirements for all staff and volunteers at long-term care and assisted living sites.
Wildfires in Montana threatened rural towns and ranchland, and victims of a California blaze returned to their incinerated town even as the region faced another round of dangerous weather.
The federal government could make about $177 million over 10 years from a support deal it reached with Air Canada, the parliamentary budget officer said in a report on Thursday, August 12, 2021.