A key CUSMA 'checkpoint' is coming. Businesses and unions are balancing anxiety and hope

Businesses and labour groups are watching with a mix of anxiety and hope as a key trade moment arrives on Wednesday, as Premier Doug Ford sets off on his third trip in less than a month to meet with U.S. lawmakers.
He built a 20-foot sculpture out of sand | The Moment

P.E.I. sculptor Abe Waterman tells The National about the moment he won the Hampton Beach Master Sand Sculpting Classic for his 20-foot-tall sand sculpture titled Hieght of Stupitidy.
Residents of Fort Simpson, N.W.T., ordered to evacuate

An evacuation order was called around 7 p.m. Sunday evening due to a nearby wildfire. A fire information officer told CBC News the fire is not expected to reach the community overnight. Residents are advised to head to Yellowknife.
6 still missing, 4 pulled from B.C.'s Georgia Strait amid marine rescue involving civilian vessel

The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre said it was notified around 11:45 a.m. PT of "several people in the water without personal flotation devices" about 10 nautical miles southwest of the Vancouver International Airport.
Thousands protest in Serbia even after President Aleksandar Vucic says he'll resign

Thousands of protesters descended on the Serbian city of Kraljevo on Sunday, keeping up pressure on President Aleksandar Vucic a day after he said he would step down within weeks to pave the way for early presidential and parliamentary elections.
France reports 1,000 additional deaths as extreme heat shatters European records

France saw around 1,000 additional deaths last week at the height of its record-smashing heat wave, the country's public health agency said Sunday, as the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that Europe is now the fastest-warming continent and needs to do more to protect its citizens.
Storms flood parts of Regina, nearly 100 mm of rain recorded in southern Saskatchewan

Severe thunderstorms swept across southern Saskatchewan on Saturday with heavy rain that flooded parts of Regina and reached nearly 100 millimetres in the community of Mankota.
Poilievre asks Parliament to probe B.C. 'condo bailout,' says it's blocking 'a price correction'

In a letter to the House ethics committee, Poilievre says a program to possibly help finance the purchase of 2,200 vacant condos amounts to a "condo bailout" for developers, bankers and investors.
Skydiving plane crashes in France, killing 11 people, officials say

The plane belonged to a parachutist school. The pilot and all 10 passengers — five students and five instructors — died in the accident, the prefecture said.
Concordia killer Valery Fabrikant dies in prison

Valery Fabrikant, the man who killed four of his fellow professors at Concordia University in Montreal in 1992, has died in prison.