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The summer session begins Monday with the provincial throne speech on Tuesday, after which Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy will retable the 2022 budget.

The federal government plans to fast-track a ban on the import of handguns into the country without the approval of Parliament using a regulatory measure that comes into effect in two weeks, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino announced on Friday, August 5, 2022.

The mother of Amanda Todd hopes her daughter's case brings increased awareness of the devastating impacts of "sextortion", as a jury in the trial of a Dutch man accused of blackmailing the British Columbia teenager begins its first full day of deliberations.

The mass shift online brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic coincided with a boom of so-called "sextortion scams," new data from Statistics Canada suggests.

Benefits rolled out at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic allowed vulnerable Canadians to stay healthy while maintaining an income, but business supports were excessive and show the outsized influence of business groups on public policy, economists say.

Provincial fire bans and restrictions are also in place across southern Alberta, including in the city of Lethbridge's river valley and in the town of Three Hills due to limited water supply.

It was the second major flooding event at the park this week. Some roads were closed Monday after they were inundated with mud and debris from flash floods that also hit western Nevada and northern Arizona hard.

The summer student job market is tracking stronger than it was in 2019, jobs data for July shows, especially for males aged 15 and 16, as many of them picked up school holiday work in an otherwise shrinking retail sector and hospitality.

A coalition of environmental groups is calling on Ottawa to reject any proposals to build export facilities for liquefied natural gas on Canada's East Coast, saying such projects will produce "climate-wrecking emissions."

British Columbia is expected to experience sustained wildfire activity in August and September, especially in southern regions, with a long-range forecast of hot-dry weather.

The Liberal government faced accusations on Thursday, August 4, 2022, of fuelling Vladimir Putin’s war machine by returning pipeline equipment in Montreal for repairs to a Russian energy giant.

Jane Sustrik remembers the sense of fear hanging over her in those early months of the pandemic.

Jean Charest compared opponents who didn't show up to the federal Conservatives' final leadership debate to fish not wanting to swim.

The deadline to dismantle an encampment along Vancouver's Hastings Street has passed with little change, but the city's mayor says he's reached out to the federal and B.C. governments for urgent funding and other supports.

Lower than expected U.S. penalties on softwood lumber exports from Canada are doing little to temper the dismay of the federal government in Ottawa.