Home buyers rush for mortgage pre-approvals amid mounting signs of rate hikes to come

Canadians are scrambling to get mortgage pre-approvals and rate holds before the era of low interest rates comes to an end, as some economists predict.
Ethiopia's Tigray conflict explained: How a year of bloodshed has sparked fears of a wider civil war
The conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region has spread through the north of the country at the cost of thousands of lives amid widespread reports of atrocities committed by all factions.
Calgary surgeon saves 2 men with CPR, then performs their heart operations

Dr. Corey Adams, a cardiac surgeon at the University of Calgary's Libin Cardiovascular Institute, has saved two men in the past 18 months by performing CPR on them in public and, days later, operating on them.
Mother sues school board for failing to protect her daughter amid rape threats, racial slurs

Having experienced anti-Black racism herself while growing up in the same area, Natasha Shakespeare feels heartbroken that her 13-year-old is suffering from the same 30 years later: targeted for abuse at school because she's Black and receiving inadequate support from school leaders in response.
More than 1,500 people have died in 2021 due to B.C.'s toxic drug supply: coroner

More than 330 people are believed to have died as a result of toxic drugs in British Columbia in August and September, according to the B.C. Coroners Service.
2 more Sask. COVID-19 patients transferred to Ontario have died

Saskatchewan officials say another two COVID-19 patients who had been transferred to Ontario for intensive care have died there, bringing the total number of deaths among transferred patients to five.
Trudeau to attend first Three Amigos summit since 2016 in D.C. next week
U.S. President Joe Biden will convene an in-person trilateral meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Washington, D.C., next Thursday, the White House said today.
Quantum Leap, Blue Velvet actor Dean Stockwell dead at 85

Dean Stockwell, a top Hollywood child actor who gained new success in middle age in the sci-fi series Quantum Leap and in a string of indelible performances in film, has died. He was 85.
Health Canada approves Pfizer's COVID vaccine as booster for people 18 and up

Health Canada has approved a booster of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for people 18 years of age and older.
N.L. patient, employee data stolen in health-care cyberattack
Hackers stole personal information connected to both patients and employees in the Eastern Health and Labrador-Grenfell Health regions of Newfoundland and Labrador's health-care system as part of a recent cyberattack, according to officials.