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Northwest Territories, where officials say the weather has helped slow the threat of an encroaching wildfire.An evacuation order issued Wednesday for Yellowknife, a city of 20,000, had a deadline of Friday noon, and RCMP were going door to door urging people to leave.Officials say more than 19,000 people complied with the evacuation, leaving in streams of vehicles south down the highway or by air on evacuation flights.They say about 2,600 people remain in the city — 1,000 of them essential workers.As of Friday night, wind continued to pose an imminent threat and the fire remained about 15 kilometres from the northwest edge of the city.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited some evacuees in Edmonton and commended all for a “thoughtful, orderly evacuation.”Many evacuees have travelled to different areas of Alberta but some were also being flown to Manitoba.Emergency teams, crews working on the fire, utilities workers and the RCMP were among those remaining in the city.“Yellowknife feels like a ghost town at the moment, that’s for sure,” said Vincent Meslage, an essential worker.Meslage and a friend spent the better part of Friday driving people to the airport to get on evacuation flights.“There were some people that were still stressed out, other people remained calm,” he said.“At the end of the day, most of the people are now gone.”Meslage said the last gas station has closed in Yellowknife. So have all the stores and restaurants.Smoke lifted briefly in Yellowknife but returned Friday evening.Mike Westwick, a wildfire information officer, said cooler temperatures and more moisture in the air aided the fight and the fire didn’t move much.Unfortunately, no rain showed up.

Canada's western province of British Columbia intensified further on Saturday, doubling the number of people under an evacuation order to 35,000 from a day earlier, as authorities warned of difficult days ahead. The province declared a state of emergency on Friday, to access temporary authoritative powers to tackle fire-related risks, as out-of-control fires ripped through interior British Columbia and partially shut down some sections of a key transit route between the Pacific coast and the rest of western Canada, and destroyed many properties. «The current situation is grim,» Premier Daniel Eby told reporters on Saturday, saying some 35,000 people are under an evacuation order, and a further 30,000 were under evacuation alert.

A massive wildfire in northern Canada is approaching the capital of the Northwest Territories and could reach Yellowknife's outskirts by the weekend if rains doesn't come. This year, Canada is facing its worst wildfire season ever, with over 1,000 active fires, including 230 in the Northwest Territories. Thousands have evacuated from remote communities, and the hamlet of Enterprise near Alberta was almost entirely destroyed by a recent blaze, a Reuter report cited Northwest Territories Premier Caroline Cochrane urged people to remain calm and cautioned that highways could close suddenly because of the fire risk.

As pressure mounts on the federal government to take a more active role in filling the housing supply gap, the minister in charge of the portfolio is exploring new — and potentially old — approaches to getting homes built.

Changes to New Brunswick’s policy on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools violate the Charter rights of children, the province’s child and youth advocate said Tuesday.

Chris Burke and his fiancee have been less than a year away from buying their first home for the past three years.

Justin Trudeau and his family are vacationing in British Columbia for just over a week, the Prime Minister’s Office says.The PMO is not specifying where they will be staying, but says they are set to return to Ottawa on Aug.

Philip Cross and I recently wrote articles on the same FP Comment page discussing Liberal culture’s negative influence on Canada’s economic growth. His focus was on entrepreneurship and innovation while mine treated climate-change catastrophism. We both described how culture can undermine fact-based analysis, rational decision-making and the economic well-being of ordinary Canadians.

Berry Vrbanovic has fired back at noted British media pundit Piers Morgan for his social media attack on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.On Sunday, Trudeau posted a picture of himself and his 15-year-old son Xavier on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in which they are dressed in pink as they attend a screening of Barbie.He accompanied the post by saying, “we’re Team Barbie.”Morgan, a television presenter in the U.K. who has eight million followers on X, responded with, “so glad I’m not Canadian.”Vrbanovic was one of hundreds who have voiced their displeasure with Morgan’s post.The Kitchener mayor posted a picture of himself in a pink shirt from Anti-Bullying Day in response to Morgan with a message that began, “hey @piersmorgan, I was raised that if I didn’t have something nice to say, it’s better not to say anything at all.

Canada’s new immigration minister said he is open to “having a conversation” on concerns raised by some economists and groups on rising immigration targets amid a housing shortage, but said he still has no plans to lower them in the near future. 

political leaders marry in office is when they split in office. After 18 years of being Mister and Missus, and the former having been seven-and-a-half years into Canadian prime ministership, Justin and Sophie Trudeau announced on Wednesday that they will be going their separate ways. On paper, nothing remotely odd about that.

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is finally coming to Canada next year with six shows at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.

Justin Trudeau’s surprise announcement that he and his wife were separating, just a week after a broad cabinet reshuffle, underscores the Canadian prime minister’s focus and intent to lead the Liberal Party into a fourth election victory, despite sagging opinion polls, pollsters and insiders said.On Wednesday, Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau unexpectedly announced their separation, likely marking the end of their 18-year-long high profile marriage. The separation is one of Trudeau’s biggest personal crises, although insiders and political commentators said he wants to ride out the aftershocks.“He’s running again,” said a source close to Trudeau, when asked whether the news of the separation might be prompting second thoughts.

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Trudeau announced their separation after a 18-year long marriage on Wednesday. "Sophie and I would like to share the fact that after many meaningful and difficult conversations, we have made the decision to separate," Canada's Prime Minister informed via a note shared on Instagram.

Justin Trudeau said that he and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, have reached the decision to separate, as mentioned in separate statements posted on their Instagram accounts. Despite the separation, they reaffirmed their close bond as a family and their profound love and respect for each other.

Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau and his wife are separating.

Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie are separating and have signed a legal agreement, his office said in a statement on Wednesday that appeared to mark the end of the couple's 18-year marriage. «They have worked to ensure that all legal and ethical steps with regards to their decision to separate have been taken, and will continue to do so moving forward,» it said.

The soaring cost of Canada’s housing has become a major political problem for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as his chief rival zeros in on generational grievances over affordability.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heaped some of the blame for skyrocketing housing costs on high interest rates and inaction by other levels of government, signalling a more defensive tone on an issue where his main political rival has hit him hard.

Whilea new tentative deal may have been reached between the two sides involved in a labour dispute impacting thousands of B.C. port workers, experts say Canada may not have seen the last of strikes this year.

By Steve Scherer