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More than 800 forest fires are currently raging in Canada, 223 of which are out of control, according to the latest report from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) dated Monday. The flames have also affected Jasper National Park, one of western Canada's most popular tourist destinations, where fires have been raging for weeks.

In 2020, the archdiocese of Saint John, in eastern Canada, was found responsible by the Canadian courts for one of the country's biggest child abuse scandals, ending two decades of legal battles and paving the way for compensation for surviving victims.

Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, convicted in 2007 of murdering six women, died in hospital in Quebec on Friday after being attacked two weeks ago by another inmate.

After a catastrophic year in 2023, the forest fire season got off to an early start in Canada. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the west of the country on Sunday, where hundreds of blazes are raging. "The fires are really all around us, from the west to the northeast," lamented Fort Nelson mayor Rob Fraser, imploring the hundred or so remaining residents to leave the town in northeastern British Columbia. Faced with the out-of-control blaze, almost 3,500 people had to be relocated 400 km further south on Friday evening.

The trial of a Canadian man accused of killing four Aboriginal women and then dumping their bodies in a landfill began on Monday in Winnipeg (central Canada).