Beyond Local

OTTAWA — One-fifth of all passenger cars, SUVs and trucks sold in Canada in 2026 will need to run on electricity under new regulations Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault proposed Wednesday.

TORONTO — The board of a Vaughan, Ont., condo building where a resident killed five people Sunday night appeared to be following the right procedure to resolve an ongoing conflict with him, an industry expert said.

CALGARY — WestJet says snow in British Columbia and extreme cold in Alberta have caused hundreds of flight cancellations over the past three days.

OTTAWA — The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. has announced regulations for the ban on foreign homebuyers, which comes into effect on Jan. 1.

Kevin Park’s gig economy career as a food courier began as a research project and ended with a broken hand.

Breaker is deeply committed to making a difference in the lives of his people and other Indigenous people who suffer from addictions or homelessness in the city of Calgary.

CALGARY — Alberta's frigid temperatures this week have prompted the province's electrical system operator to declare a grid alert. The daytime high today was forecast to be -32 C in Grande Prairie, -27 C in Edmonton.

OTTAWA — The Canadian Judicial Council recommended Monday that a Quebec Superior Court judge be removed from the bench for what it called serious misconduct.

OTTAWA — Morrell Andrews fought in court to control the use of her own name last year when she hoped to speak publicly about her experience with sexual assault. She won that fight. But she's hoping nobody ever has to wage the same battle again.

OTTAWA — Federal Justice Minister David Lametti has decided a miscarriage of justice likely occurred in the case of a man convicted of murdering his fiancée in Richmond, B.C., in 1994 and has referred the matter to the province's Court of Appeal.