A man is dead in Hamilton, Ont., after police say an altercation occurred in the parking lot of a grocery store.

The 21-year-old man was found with stab wounds early Sunday by a taxi driver on Main Street West near Frid Street. The driver called 911, then tried to perform first aid. Police said they were called at about 2:30 a.m.

The man was taken to hospital where he died from his injuries, police said.

“We’re not really sure what took place between the altercation and the victim being located, that’s something that we’re still trying to sort through,” said Det. Staff Sgt. Lisa Chambers.

According to police, the altercation happened about 10 minutes prior to the man being found. Neither a weapon nor a suspect had been identified as of Sunday afternoon.

The death is the city’s ninth homicide of the year, already surpassing the seven reported in total in 2025.

Chambers said police have obtained video related to the incident and are working to obtain more that could help in the investigation.

People are asked to contact police if they have any information about the incident or have any video footage to provide.

—with files from Global News’ Sean O’Shea

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A group that represents numerous First Nations across British Columbia is calling on Ottawa and Alberta’s government to halt efforts to advance the West Coast pipeline, saying expanding the oil industry will accelerate climate change and disasters.

“The destructive and disastrous consequences of expanding fossil fuel production extend far beyond any single territory,” the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs said in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith.

“From catastrophic wildfires to destructive floods and rising seas, the impacts of climate change are already being felt across this country. Every new fossil fuel project deepens that crisis.”

The letter is signed by the group’s heads, including Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, and it said B.C. Premier David Eby also has a copy of it.

The letter came Sunday, a day after the B.C. government issued a state of emergency as more than 100 wildfires burned across the province, with one forcing nearly 25,000 people across two communities east of Vancouver to flee. Nearly half of the wildfires were burning out of control.

The Indigenous group said it was also publishing the letter on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Sunday.

The group said it wanted to reaffirm that it’s against the pipeline because government has not consulted and co-operated in good faith with the First Nations, noting government has already developed the project’s corridor, named prospective development partners and is publicly promoting its economic case.

“Consultation cannot be meaningful if First Nations are invited only to discuss how a predetermined project will proceed,” it said.

“Nor can equity ownership, loan guarantees, revenue-sharing, employment, or other proposed benefits be treated as substitutes for consent.”

Carney’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter.

Alberta’s Ministry of Indigenous Relations said in an email Sunday that the pipeline will provide long-term benefits for Indigenous communities, and create jobs and energy security.

“The West Coast oil pipeline submission is currently under review by the Major Projects Office, which will consult with Indigenous communities as part of determining whether the project is in the national interest,” said press secretary Karah Folk.

“Our government remains committed to ongoing dialogue with First Nations and all partners as this work continues.”

The roughly 1,250-kilometre West Coast pipeline would carry upwards of one-million barrels of crude oil per day from Bruderheim, Alta., to a port near Delta, B.C., for shipment to international markets.

The Alberta government is listed as the pipeline project’s proponent. The pipeline would be owned by Trans Mountain, the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission and Pembina Pipeline Corporation.

Ottawa took a step last week toward giving the proposed project a national interest designation under the Building Canada Act, which would allow government to fast-track the pipeline and skirt some environmental laws.

The government said it is accepting public feedback until mid-September on the designation.

An Alberta government website said it’s expecting to receive the designation on October 1.

“Following Indigenous consultation and once all approvals and permits are in place, construction could start as early as September 1, 2027,” it said.

Ottawa and Alberta have agreed the pipeline would be conditional on a carbon storage project called Pathways, and vice versa. Pathways, which is owned by various companies, would prevent emissions from increased oil production from entering the atmosphere. It involves a pipeline network that would carry carbon emissions from several sites in northern Alberta to an underground storage hub near Cold Lake, Alta.

A think tank called the Canadian Climate Institute said in July, however, that  emissions from the increased production that a new West Coast pipeline would enable far eclipse what Pathways would prevent from entering the atmosphere.

The West Coast pipeline is among several projects that have been approved or proposed under Carney’s Major Projects Office, which is headquartered in Calgary.

Ottawa has said the projects are meant to be of national interest and strengthen Canada’s autonomy, provide economic benefits, advance Indigenous interests and meet Canada’s climate change goals in a rapidly shifting global landscape.

The Building Canada Act outlines the projects’ regulatory pathway.

The Conservatives helped the government pass the Building Canada Act more than a year ago and the government has so far moved three projects toward the national interest designation under the act.

Those projects are the Grays Bay road and port project in Nunavut, the Mackenzie Valley Highway in the Northwest Territories and the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s deep geological repository in northern Ontario.

— With files from Lauren Krugel and David Baxter

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A part of southwestern Ontario saw two confirmed tornadoes on Saturday after the region saw severe storms move through the area.

The Northern Tornadoes Project which responds to reported tornadoes and determines if they touched down said late Saturday that one had touched down near Lindsay, Ont., with a second landing in Woodstock.

The Woodstock tornado came as Environment Canada issued a tornado warning for the region, saying damaging winds, large hail and locally intense rainfall was also expected.

According to the project, both tornadoes have been preliminarily given an EF0 rating, the lowest on the enhanced Fujita scale that assigns the storms a rating based on estimated wind speeds and related damage. An EF0 typically has wind speeds of 65 to 85 kilometres per hour.

“Given the damage reported so far is minor, we are not planning to send a survey team,” the Northern Tornadoes Project said in a Facebook post about the Woodstock storm.

The group said it’s also not planning to send a team to investigate the Lindsay tornado, but noted some evidence of minor damage has been reported. It will obtain more evidence before determining if a team needs to be sent.

The City of Woodstock said in a post that it was continuing cleanup efforts after Saturday’s storm. Tree damage on sidewalks, boulevards and in parks is being assessed and cleared.  A cricket field fence was damaged in the storm, prompting a closure on Sunday.

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An auto parts business in southern Saskatchewan says it is among more than a dozen transportation equipment companies across the province that have fallen victim to a widespread credit card scam.

Leanne Tuntland-Wiebe, the owner and manager of the Great West Auto Electric in Assiniboia, Sask., says her store lost around $20,000 earlier this year after a scammer made three separate purchases of power tools using fraudulent credit cards.

“He gave us a business name, gave us his personal name, gave us an email address, gave us a phone number, which sounded legit, so my guys didn’t think that much about it,” Tuntland-Wiebe told Global News in an interview.

Earlier this week, the Saskatchewan RCMP put out a notice cautioning the public about “large-scale fraud” targeting transportation companies across Western Canada, in which scammers purchase a range of products, including tires, oil, and mechanical tools, from businesses over the phone using fraudulent credit cards.

“It appears to be legitimate and like it’s an approved purchase, and in some time within a day or two, the purchase is being disputed, and then the businesses are out the money that’s associated with it,” RCMP Sgt. William Groenen told Global News in an interview.

Fraudsters have stolen around half a million dollars’ worth of products in Saskatchewan so far, said Groenen, adding that investigators are aware of the scam happening in other western provinces, too.

Businesses from several communities across the province have reported the scam, including Battleford, Weyburn, Kindersley, Hudson Bay and Moosomin.

The widespread nature of the scams and the anonymous nature of the purchases are creating challenges for investigators, said Groenen, adding that they can be living almost anywhere.

“These digital types of offences continue to increase. They’re long, drawn-out investigations, and they take a lot of resources, but they’re important for us to keep trying to coordinate,” he said.

Mounties say investigators began looking into the scam in March and believe the same group is responsible. Police have not charged anyone in relation to the scam.

Tuntland-Wiebe says her business, located nearly a two-hour drive southwest of Regina, only found out the purchase was fraudulent when its bookkeeper was doing bank reconciliations and saw the three transactions charged back to their account three months later.

“We weren’t notified of the chargebacks. So, if we had been notified at the time, maybe we could have given more information to the RCMP,” she said.

Tuntland-Wiebe recalls the individuals who picked up the order were “nondescript,” with their vehicles unmarked, adding there was no way to tell they were fraudulent at the time, as the transactions initially went through.

When trying to recover the lost funds, Tuntland-Wiebe says she was told to contact her financial institution and point-of-sale provider, but neither could help.

“The insurance policies have to be updated so that companies are protected for credit card fraud, wherever they’re stolen from,” she said, adding that while the loss hit the small business “pretty hard,” it is also hurting the community.

“You can’t do as much of that when you’re trying to recoup $20,000. So maybe our sign won’t be at this event or at that event, or we can’t contribute to a silent auction or an auction to raise money for certain things.”

RCMP believe there are additional businesses that have been defrauded and are urging them to come forward.

Police recommend that businesses get to know their customers and be wary of any orders in which the first payment is declined to avoid the scam.

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As people flee from growing wildfires in parts of British Columbia, the federal government says it has approved a request for assistance to provide shelter and accommodations for those who’ve been forced from their homes.

Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski said in a statement she’s tasked federal officials to work with the province to ensure support reaches “those who need it most.”

“The federal government is here to support British Columbia and everyone in the province impacted by this summer’s wildfires for as long as it takes,” she said.

That response will be good news for many, including some at an evacuation centre in Penticton who say they’ve been sleeping in their vehicles since first arriving.

Allan Jennens told Global News late Saturday evening he had spent 14 hours in line trying to register for assistance and was now staying nearby in hopes of being successful on Sunday. He said sleeping in his car leaves room for others who need a bed.

“There is (a bed) if you have no other place to sleep,” Jennens said. “I’ve seen some elderly people who had no other place to go. So we sleep in our cars so they can have the beds.”

Jennens said he learned late that day that his family’s home was still intact, which he called a “total relief,” but that may not be the reality for others.

People from Summerland, the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, and the Penticton Indian Band have all sought shelter at the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre as they wait to find out what has happened to their homes.

About 10,000 homes are under evacuation orders in these regions, with more than 3,200 under alerts that stretch north past Peachland to Highway 97C and south past Penticton on its western outskirts.

Tom Joseph evacuated from the Summerland area and said the journey to Penticton was bumper-to-bumper. He told Global News he’s since learned his home survived the fire, but it was a close call.

“I heard today my house is good, I was one of the lucky ones that was spared,” he said. “But I did hear of some garages that were burned farther down the street. It came way too close for comfort.”

Joanne Liboiron said she had hoped to ride out the fire, until at about 1:30 a.m. on Saturday when an alarm went off and she realized they needed to leave Summerland.

“It was fearful, I mean now it’s real,” she said. “Up till then I was hosing down my house and I’m thinking, ‘Oh we can handle this.’ No you can’t. You don’t want to be stupid, when the siren goes you listen to the police and you go to safety. But it’s scary.”

Video footage shot after a wildfire in the small community of Faulder shows empty foundations, skeletal remains of vehicles and an occasional patch of green.

The Bald Range fire exploded in size by more than 100 square kilometres by Saturday afternoon, prompting thousands to be evacuated from Summerland and Peachland.

Peachland Mayor Patrick van Minsel said the fire evolved extremely fast.

“What was a small fire within two hours was one of the worst fires we’ve ever seen,” he said in an interview with Global News.

He said he’s noticed many efforts lately have been focused on Summerland compared to his community, but acknowledged even a change in wind could make things dangerous for his district.

About 1,200 to 1,500 residents have evacuated, while approximately 1,000 more are under an evacuation alert.

The mayor stressed residents should always be prepared, saying it’s important to have a bag ready to go should they need to evacuate and to listen to orders if they are issued.

B.C. Premier David Eby declared a provincial state of emergency on Saturday, saying the Bald Range fire marked a significant shift in the province’s wildfire situation. He said the lead commander on the fire, who had been up all night, described it as being “like a bomb going off in the Summerland region.”

Some evacuees who spoke with Global News said they faced long waits because they were told by volunteers and supervisors at the Penticton centre they only had a small number of workers.

“There is definitely something wrong with our system,” said Kathleen Newman, who said she had to wait about 14 hours to get registered. While she has been informed she’ll be able to return home as her apartment building remains intact, she expressed concerns over the amount of time she waited.

Asked about that wait, B.C. Emergency Management Minister Kelly Greene told Global News they acknowledge how busy the reception centres are and recommended people consider registering online.

“It is an extremely large response that we’re trying to help as many people as quickly as possible,” she said.

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One person is dead after a fatal canoe incident on Stewart Lake in Georgian Bay Township.

Ontario Provincial Police in Bracebridge say they responded to a report of a capsized canoe on Saturday shortly after 8 p.m.

According to police, two individuals were canoeing when the craft overturned approximately 40 feet from shore.

One person was rescued by a passing boater but the other went underwater and did not resurface.

Searchers found the body of the 31-year-old from Mississauga on Sunday.

The investigation is ongoing, with officials saying the Office of the Chief Coroner and the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service are also involved.

OPP remind boaters to make water safety a priority by wearing a properly-fitted lifejacket or personal floatation device, checking weather conditions before heading out on the water, and ensuring all required safety equipment is readily available.

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After a week of daily events and celebrations, Pride events are taking over downtown Montreal.

Fierté Montréal is holding its 20th parade, where thousands gathered to watch the festivities.

Organizers have said they beefed up security after a deadly attack at Berlin Pride last month.

A group of leftist LGBTQ+, known as Wild Pride, is holding a second march starting at 2 p.m.

In a statement, the organizers of Wild Pride said they want to bring Pride back to its roots by protesting corporate sponsorship, police presence and colonialism.

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In January, Edmonton resident Lisa Kruy started going to Ruth’s Pantry for groceries.

“For the past few years, myself and my husband, we’ve been struggling,” Kruy explained.

With the high cost of living — and only one income — putting food on the table has been a challenge.

Then Kruy got connected with Ruth’s Pantry through her son’s school — easing some of those worries.

“I got to come in here, pick what I needed, and provide for my little family,” Kruy said.

“It’s meant a lot to my family, because now my son gets to go to school with lunches.”

The pantry in northeast Edmonton — which launched last fall — is a program of SOAR Community Empowerment.

The non-profit helps vulnerable people in the community through its various programming.

“We all face crisis, we all face different things in life, and sometimes we just need some help,” SOAR director & CEO Craig Henkelman said.

“We come in to just help with groceries, because a lot of times it’s just difficult to pay rent.”

Right now Ruth’s Pantry serves more than 100 families.

“Families can register with us, and then they come every week, and they get what they need,” Henkelman explained.

“We want to give them a sense of dignity and empowerment, so that’s why they get a shopping experience.”

Some of the stories they hear from community members are heartbreaking, staff say.

“We had one family came through here, and the little guy, when he saw milk, was like, ‘Mom, we haven’t had milk in four days,’ and we were able to give them milk and eggs for free,” said Christy Henkelman, the overseer of Ruth’s Pantry.

A food source provides them with produce and meat, but donations of pantry items are always welcome.

The organization has also launched a campaign raising money to build a commercial kitchen.

“It’s called ‘1,000 for 150 for Kids,’ and really, it’s looking for 1,000 people to give $150,” Craig said.

“That allows us partly to keep everything open, but to expand the facility.”

The kitchen would also enable them to host classes.

“We can train kids how to make meals — that’s a big thing,” Christy said.

“It’s also important that we can also provide meals pre-made if possible.”

A community effort to combat food insecurity.

“We’re one part,” Craig said. “There’s great organizations in the city that are doing great things, and we’re coming alongside all of that.”

A resource Kruy is grateful for.

“The fact that there’s good people out there that are willing to help families like me that are struggling — that means a lot to us,” Kruy said.

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A motorcycle rider is dead after a head-on collision between the bike and a vehicle near Torrance, Ont. in the Township of Muskoka Lakes.

Ontario Provincial Police were called to the scene on Muskoka Road 169 near East Black Lake Road shortly after 8:30 p.m. Saturday.

Paramedics and bystanders attempted lifesaving efforts, but police said a 52-year-old from Lake of Bays was pronounced dead. The driver of the passenger vehicle did not report any injuries.

The driver of the passenger vehicle has been charged with dangerous operation causing death and is set to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in Bracebridge on Sunday for a bail hearing.

Muskoka Road 169 was reopened after several hours of closure due to the on-scene investigation and clean-up efforts that followed the crash.

Anyone who may have seen the crash or may have footage from the area at the time of the incident is asked to contact OPP or Crime Stoppers.

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney not to make any concessions in negotiations of a U.S. trade deal, saying he has “backed down” to multiple American demands.

The letter addressed to Carney by Poilievre and Conservative critic for Canada-U.S. relations Shuvaloy Majumdar comes as U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping 50 per cent tariffs are set to hit in 10 days.

“For the past year and a half, you have backed down to one American demand after another while getting nothing in return, with concession after concession,” Poilievre and Majumdar wrote.

They went on to cite the removal of the digital services tax, dropping retaliatory tariffs on most U.S. products under CUSMA and the revenue-sharing agreement on the Gordie Howe bridge.

Earlier this week, Carney said Ottawa was seeking a “win-win deal” that includes steel, aluminum, forestry and automobile sector. He cautioned it was not clear if all would be achieved by Aug. 19, when the 50 per cent tariffs are set to be imposed, saying “we’ll see.”

Canada and Mexico both indicated last month that they want to see CUSMA, the trilateral North American trade pact, extended for another 16-year term. The United States instead opted to let the agreement move to rolling annual reviews.

But concerns have been raised by some sectors and provinces about what could be given in exchange, with supply management and the ban of U.S. alcohol from provincial shelves being cited as key irritants in negotiations.

Trump last month signed three executive orders, each one using a different justification for the new tariff: the provincial and territorial boycotts on American alcohol products, Canada’s retaliatory tariffs on U.S.-made vehicles and auto parts and quotas on American dairy imports under Canada’s supply management system.

Canada’s dairy farmers have warned the federal government against any concessions involving their sector, with the country’s supply management system currently protecting them.

The prime minister has stressed, including on Thursday, that his government is “loyal” to the system.

Some provincial premiers have also said they aren’t backing down on U.S. alcohol bans and called for retaliatory measures such as dollar-for-dollar tariffs and threatening to withhold energy and critical mineral exports.

Last month, Carney told premiers retaliation remained a possibility but declined to specify exactly what the “full range” of options are.

In their letter, Poilievre and Majumdar said Canadians want a good deal now.

That deal, according to the pair, means zero tariffs on softwood lumber, an end to duties on steel and aluminum exports, a tariff-free auto pact, and a full exemption to the “Buy America” rules on infrastructure projects at all levels of government.

The Conservatives reiterated their call to strengthen Canada’s negotiating position with the creation of a strategic reserve of critical minerals, which would be open to countries that provide tariff-free access to their own markets.

“Canadians deserve a government that has the backbone to fight for our workers, our families, and every inch of our sovereignty,” Poilievre and Majumdar wrote. “No more caving.”

“Before you concede anything else, Canadians deserve a good deal.”

—with files from The Canadian Press

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