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EDMONTON — Cool and wet weather is making a difference in Jasper National Park. The park posted a statement on X late Thursday night saying cooler temperatures and up to 15 millimetres of rain since midnight had led to minimal fire activity.

WHITEHORSE, YUKON, CANADA — Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai says Bell should be embarrassed by the terrible cellphone service the territory has been getting over the last several months.

OTTAWA — A DNA test shows a former judge and Order of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ recipient accused of falsely claiming to be Cree "most likely" has Indigenous heritage, a report from the Law Society of British Columbia revealed Thursday.

Three employees at Canadian Timberframes near Golden, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, had no warning when a nearby wildfire jumped the Columbia River and "barrelled through" nearby homes, the company's co-owner said. "The fire was out of control. The winds changed.

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA — Parks sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ says crews in the town of Jasper are fighting flames that are jumping from building to building but critical infrastructure has so far been protected.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre blamed a national rise in crime and the recent killing of an Ontario teenager on what he calls failed Liberal and NDP policies. Poilievre delivered a stump speech in London, Ont.

VANCOUVER — A researcher who looked into deaths during the eight hottest days of sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s deadly heat dome says that equitably addressing the impacts of climate change would mean placing a larger focus on people living in poverty.

The southern resident killer whale known as Tahlequah captured global sympathy in 2018 when she pushed the body of her dead calf for more than two weeks in waters off British Columbia's south coast.

The black clouds billowing from the fires razing Jasper National Park hold more than the reek of charred timber and scorched earth. For thousands of Canadians and mountain-lovers around the world, it's the smell of cherished memory going up in smoke.