Author: The Canadian Post
Residents of Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, volunteered on the night of Jan. 7, 2026, to drive about 200 passengers from two flights diverted from St. John’s to local hotels, after a Facebook post at 10:03 p.m. showed there were not enough taxis available. A Facebook post at 10:03 p.m. The two aircraft had taken off from Toronto and Montreal and were unable to land as scheduled in St. John’s because of the weather. They were diverted to Gander International Airport on Wednesday night, Jan. 7. Jackie Freake, assistant manager at the Quality Hotel, said she received a call that evening…
Families marked six years on Jan. 8, 2026, since Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 was shot down over Iran on Jan. 8, 2020, killing all 176 people on board, including 55 Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents. Ceremonies were held in Richmond Hill, Windsor and Vancouver to honour the victims. Ceremonies in three cities The Association of Families of Flight PS752 Victims hosted the main ceremony in Richmond Hill, Ont., the community north of Toronto where many victims had lived, worked or studied. Other events were planned the same day in Windsor, Ont., and Vancouver, B.C. The Richmond Hill observance…
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada reported on Jan. 8, 2026, that poor visibility and a disabled terrain awareness warning system contributed to the Dec. 27, 2023, crash of an Air Tindi Twin Otter near Lac de Gras, Northwest Territories, which injured ten people, two seriously. Four approaches in deteriorating weather The aircraft was a wheel-ski equipped Air Tindi de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300, registration C-GMAS, operating as flight TIN601. According to the Transportation Safety Board’s investigation report A23W0158, it departed Margaret Lake, Northwest Territories, at 1205 Mountain Standard Time on Dec. 27, 2023, on a visual flight…
Calgary officials asked every person on the city’s water system on Jan. 8, 2026, to save 30 litres a day — equal to three fewer toilet flushes — while crews repaired the Bearspaw South Feeder Main, which ruptured Dec. 30 and normally carries 60 per cent of Calgary’s treated water. Three flushes, 30 litres, one target Sue Henry, chief of the Calgary Emergency Management Agency, put the request in the simplest terms she could on Jan. 8. If each person saved 30 litres a day, the city would meet its daily conservation target while a fragile feeder main was repaired.…
A Vancouver Island old-growth protest camp says its code explicitly prohibits property damage and rejects any insinuation it was involved in suspected arson that damaged logging equipment on Jan. 2, while Lake Cowichan RCMP say they have no direct link to the group beyond the camp’s proximity. What burned, and where Lake Cowichan RCMP say they responded on Friday, Jan. 2, just after 9 a.m., to a report of multiple burned-out logging vehicles along the Caycuse mainline. In the detachment’s Jan. 7 news release, File #2026-7, police say the fires had occurred overnight and the machines were found smouldering at…
Greater Toronto Area home sales fell 8.9 per cent in December 2025 to 3,697, and the average selling price dropped 5.1 per cent to $1,006,735, the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board said Jan. 7, closing a weaker year that the board says could give way to recovery in 2026. December closed a soft year The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB) says 3,697 homes changed hands across the Greater Toronto Area in December, down 8.9 per cent from December 2024. On a seasonally adjusted basis, sales were also down 0.4 per cent from November, according to Canadian Press reporting of…
First Nations chiefs say Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty will not commit to keeping source-water protections in Ottawa’s promised clean water bill. Anishinabek and Cold Lake leaders say the protections were hard won in the earlier bill, and fear the replacement will be passed without proper consultation with chiefs. A commitment the minister would not make The concern centres on an interview Gull-Masty gave The Canadian Press in December. Asked about the clean water legislation she had promised the previous summer to bring back, she would not commit to carrying over the source-water protections that were in the earlier version,…
Kashechewan First Nation in northern Ontario plans to evacuate about 2,200 residents after failures in its water and wastewater systems left the community without reliable clean water. Sewage reached the basement of its nursing station, an influenza outbreak is circulating, and the community declared a state of emergency on Jan. 4. A system more than 30 years old gives out Kashechewan is a fly-in Cree community on the western shore of James Bay. In a news release, the First Nation said the water level in its system had dropped significantly, triggering an automatic shutdown meant to protect an already fragile…
Deloitte Canada forecasts the Canadian economy will grow by 1.5 per cent in 2026, down from 1.7 per cent in 2025. The outlook assumes Canada keeps broadly its current, largely tariff-free access to the United States market, with Alberta and Saskatchewan leading provincial growth at 2.1 per cent. A slower year, built on a trade assumption The forecast, released Wednesday, rests first on trade. Chief economist Dawn Desjardins said the outlook effectively assumes a “status quo” in Canada’s access to the U.S. market this year — relatively tariff-free trade, apart from the industries the Trump administration has already targeted under…
A Transportation Safety Board report released Jan. 7, 2026, says a Cessna U206F on a power-line inspection flight southeast of Lloydminster stalled during a steep, low turn on Sept. 8, 2024, and hit the ground within seconds, fatally injuring the pilot and the observer on board. What the investigators found The aircraft, registration C-FKZO and operated by KBM Forestry Consultants Inc., left Kindersley Regional Aerodrome in Saskatchewan at 2:47 p.m. Central Standard Time for the second portion of a visual flight rules inspection flight that day. The work was part of a multi-day contract to photograph power lines southeast of…
