National News

VANCOUVER — A possible strike by British Columbia port workers will not disrupt cruise ships docked in Vancouver, Prince Rupert or Vancouver Island, employers say.

FORT SIMPSON, N.W.T. — A construction company in the Northwest Territories has been fined $100,000 after a worker was killed at a site outside Fort Simpson in 2020. Nogha Enterprises Ltd.

WHITEHORSE — Yukon is "patiently waiting" for federal funding that could come this fall to help build critically needed climate-mitigation infrastructure in the wake of recent severe flooding.

OTTAWA — A Canadian mother struggling to leave a Syrian detention camp with her six children was dealt another setback this week when a fire damaged their tent home, an advocacy group says.

OTTAWA — Tonya Barabash has a quintessentially Canadian plan for Saturday: she and her husband are making the most of the hot summer weather, taking their seven-year-old son swimming at a marina and going out for ice cream.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court put its conservative slant — and its ever-more-combative liberal minority — on stark display Friday as it rejected federal plans to forgive student debt and backed businesses that refuse to serve same-sex couples.

MONTREAL — Evacuation orders were starting to lift on Friday for Quebec residents directly affected by wildfires, but the blazes were still causing poor air quality across much of the province.

VICTORIA — Critical strategy shifts are urgently needed to cut the risk of catastrophic wildfires in British Columbia forests that threaten to decimate ecosystems and communities, says an independent forests watchdog report. The B.C.

VANCOUVER — When the Chinese Exclusion Act came into effect in 1923, it didn't just effectively halt Chinese immigration to Canada — it extinguished the family lines of thousands of labourers already here.

OTTAWA — Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri, actor and writer Dan Levy and Cree artist Kent Monkman are among the dozens of people newly named to Canada's highest civilian honour. Gov. Gen.