Canada saves Fleet Week: The Snowbirds will replace the U.S. Navy as the top draw in the San Francisco airshow due to the U.S. government shutdown. With American military personnel unable to participate, Canada’s iconic red-and-white jets will step in to keep the show flying.

Toronto doctors have performed Canada’s first groundbreaking heart transplant using a heart that had stopped beating before donation, offering new hope for patients on transplant waitlists.

Thoughts & Tariffs🙏: U.S. alcohol exports to Canada are down 85% in the second quarter compared to last year, the steepest drop of any international market amid the ongoing trade dispute.

Nice guys don’t finish last: Canada ranked 10th among the world’s top countries in Condé Nast Traveller’s 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards, with a score of 90.94.

Canadian coffee chain Good Earth plans to take over several recently closed Starbucks locations across the country, focusing on sites in Toronto, southwestern Ontario, B.C., and Halifax.

When life gives you lemons 🍋: After 50 years of perfecting her famous mile-high lemon meringue pies, P.E.I. baker Joan Blanchard is hanging up her apron at New Glasgow Lobster Suppers.

Local beaver becomes instant legend: A rare white beaver spotted near Perth, Ont., is captivating wildlife watchers after experts confirmed it has leucism, a genetic condition that causes partial loss of pigmentation.

Contender, the biggest great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic, has been spotted feeding in Canadian waters, last tracked in the Gulf of St. Lawrence near Quebec.

Zombie worms in the 6ix: Creatures buried in Toronto waterfront soil for more than a century have burst back to life. A wetland restoration project revealed worms, water fleas, plankton, and seeds, offering a glimpse of the ecosystem before urbanization.

The death of Gordo, an Eastern Massasauga rattlesnake found crushed on a Windsor roadway, is a devastating loss for the endangered population in Windsor-Essex, as every loss further threatens the species’ survival.

Silence is golden: Toronto Blue Jays' Mark Shapiro had the friendliest chirp for the Yankees after knocking them out in New York, saying “The silence in Yankee Stadium, that’s the greatest sound."

Two Toronto Maple Leafs players went undercover in a new Tim Hortons ad, handing out hockey cards to local fans. Goaltender Anthony Stolarz, as “Antonio,” and forward Steven Lorentz, as “Steven,” tried to stay incognito, but it didn’t take fans long to figure out who they were.

The Calgary Flames have unveiled a new post-game tradition, a bright red suit jacket featuring the team’s logo, awarded to the player of the game after each win.

Fowl play: Toronto police have charged two fans for flying drones over the Rogers Centre during Toronto Blue Jays playoff games.

A wall in downtown Fort St. John, B.C., vandalized with swastikas and profanity, has been transformed into a vibrant Treaty 8 mural, featuring a Cree woman holding a bronze medallion to celebrate Indigenous resilience and the historic treaty.

Survivors gathered in Portage la Prairie to mark the 50th anniversary of the residential school’s closure, reuniting with friends they hadn’t seen in decades and sharing their journeys toward healing.

The B.C. government wants to sue e-cigarette and vaping device makers under what it says is Canada’s first law targeting deceptive advertising, letting the province recover health-care costs from companies that market vaping as safe.

The Conservative Party is pushing to restrict birthright citizenship for some people in Canada.

The first 27 pieces from Hudson’s Bay’s art and artifact collection heading to auction next month have been revealed, featuring works by Sir Winston Churchill, William von Moll Berczy, and more. 

Marineland says its remaining 30 belugas shouldn’t be sent to Nova Scotia’s proposed Whale Sanctuary Project, claiming the site is unsuitable after the federal government blocked its plan to sell the whales to a Chinese aquarium.

Train delayed? You might be entitled to compensation: Via Rail is paying out $31M in travel vouchers to passengers whose trains were delayed by more than an hour since last fall, mostly due to new speed limits at CN rail crossings.

The City of Burlington has charged a developer, landowner, and contractor after 425 trees were cut down on a private golf course, alleging the parties caused or permitted the injury or destruction of trees without the required permits.

Like Sweden, Japan, and the U.S., Canada will start large-scale factory-built housing next year, with Build Canada Homes funding 4,000 modular homes on federal land.