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Alberta has always valued water. Rivers have been harnessed to build irrigation districts, power industry, support energy development and sustain communities across some of the most arid parts of Canada. But what once felt abundant is becoming scarce and less predictable. From the headwaters in the Rocky Mountains to the plains fed by the Bow…

Don Davies, the Vancouver New Democrat MP who served as his party’s interim leader until the election of Avi Lewis last weekend, cautioned party members last December that if the NDP wanted to avoid another drubbing at the polls, it should focus on working people’s issues instead of becoming obsessed with identity politics. The party…

More than 200,000 kilometres from Earth, Jeremy Hansen spoke to Canadians back home: “I am so proud of our country,” he said from inside the Orion spacecraft early Saturday morning. “If we can send a human around the moon in 2026, just imagine what we’re capable of doing next,” he added. Hansen was speaking during…

Rosalie Cataghal, a semi-retired hair stylist who lives and works in South Surrey, says she settled there because she likes the middle-class nature of the neighbourhood. She cites homelessness and crime — the 2007 Surrey Six murders in Whalley left a lingering bad taste — as reasons she hardly ever ventures into the city’s north…

The Hells Angels and other organized crime groups are increasingly involved in the lucrative black market cigarette business. The revelation comes after two recent seizures of illegal cigarettes and nicotine vapes in Southwestern Ontario. Police identified 173 organized crime groups – including the mafia, the Hells Angels, the Outlaws and their support clubs – involved…

ELLERSLIE, P.E.I. — Maritime Electric and Lennox Island First Nation are collaborating on a proposed project that would provide renewable energy for western P.E.I. On March 31, the groups held an open house in Ellerslie, for residents to stop in and learn about the Na’ku’set Park utility-scale solar and battery storage project. Planned for the…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Istanbul on Saturday for security talks with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The visit comes a day after Erdogan spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who accused Kyiv of attempting to target the gas pipeline between Russia and Turkey that also supplies several European countries. “Arrived in Istanbul, where…

Burdett “Burd” Sisler, the oldest known living Canadian — and one of the world’s oldest Second World War veterans — has died at 110, his family confirmed on Saturday.

This week, FP Video looks at how the ongoing fuel-cost crisis will only get worse as the war in the Middle East continues. Plus, how returning snowbirds from abroad are keeping up demand in cottage country , while the rest of Canada’s real estate market is expected to be low and slow. The week winds…

With heavily armed Toronto police guarding Jewish institutions during Passover, a Jewish-owned restaurant became the city’s latest target of antisemitic gunfire on Friday morning, prompting Israel’s ambassador to Canada to urge authorities to act “before it’s too late.” Old Avenue restaurant in north Toronto was hit by gunfire around 1:30 a.m. on Friday. CTV reported…