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The thick smoke and haze that turned the New York City skyline orange and brought some of the worst air quality levels the Northeast has seen in decades was spawned by a series of wildfires burning in Canada. The fires, which began in early June and have affected Ontario and …

Canada is on track for its worst-ever year of wildfire destruction as warm and dry conditions are forecast to persist through to the end of the summer after an unprecedented start to the fire season, officials said on Monday. Blazes are burning in nearly all Canadian provinces and territories, and …

The death toll from powerful thunderstorms in Canada’s two most populous provinces this weekend rose to at least eight, authorities said on Sunday. At least eight people were killed following powerful thunderstorms in Canada’s two most populous provinces, the country’s authorities said, as emergency crews continued a massive clean-up to …

New research published in Science Advances describes complex structures in rocks from Quebec, Canada, estimated to be between 3.75 and 4.28 billion years old and of possible organic origin. The structures found in Canada are more than 200 to 700 million years older than the previous oldest fossils of microbes …

August 1 is now recognised across Canada as Emancipation Day, marking the end of slavery in the British Empire in 1834. After years of campaigning by Black legislators and community advocates, Canada on Sunday is officially marking the abolishment of slavery nearly 200 years ago in its first nationwide Emancipation …

Canada Day is exactly what it sounds like: a federal holiday to celebrate the country and show off national pride. When is it? July 1 is Canada Day. How did it start? July 1 commemorates the joining of Canada’s original three provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Canada province, …

Rapidly melting snow caused bodies of water to swell throughout Quebec, Canada, flooding nearly 3,000 homes in the province, officials said Monday. The flooding also forced the evacuation of about 1,300 people, according to figures from Urgence Quebec, the government’s informational branch for emergency communications. Some 1,700 homes also were …

Quebec’s appeals court on Friday upheld a historic ruling ordering three tobacco firms to pay Can$15.5 billion (US$11.6 billion) to smokers in the Canadian province who claimed they were never warned about the health risks associated with smoking. Imperial Tobacco Canada, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco, Rothmans Benson & …