Beyond Local

Hundreds of Canadians are stranded in Cancún, Mexico and don't know how they'll get home after their Sunwing flights were cancelled last week.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — A lawsuit filed in the drowning of an Alberta man in a public pool is shining a light on potentially dangerous breath-holding exercises and what responsibility facility operators have to supervise patrons who practise them.

CALGARY — TC Energy Corp. has received regulatory approval to restart the remaining segment of the Keystone pipeline that has been shut down since suffering its worst oil spill in the pipeline's history on Dec. 7.

Via Rail plans to resume trains on its Toronto-Ottawa and Toronto-Montreal routes Tuesday, the rail service said days after a CN train derailment forced the cancellation of those trains scheduled for Christmas and Boxing Day.

Harry Bond is blunt in his assessment of the RCMP's role on the night his mother and father died in the Nova Scotia mass shooting — and of the force's potential to reform in the future.

Alberta led the way this year, with yields up 8.9 per cent overall to 26.8 million hundredweight, producing 21.8 per cent of Canadian potatoes.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the number job vacancies fell by 4.8 per cent in October to their lowest level since August 2021. The agency says the number of job vacancies fell by 44,300 to 871,300 in October.

CALGARY — Hockey Canada has reached a one-year athlete agreement with its national women's team. The agreement covers 28 athletes and is retroactive to Oct. 1, 2022, Hockey Canada said Wednesday in a statement.

OTTAWA — Experts are warning against drawing conclusions on whether Canada is getting a good deal for the F-35.

SAANICH, B.C. — An independent review of a wild and deadly police shootout in the parking lot of a Bank of Montreal branch in Saanich, B.C., has described a series of "dramatic and violent events" that it says unfolded in "mere seconds" on June 28.