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Officials say wildfires are affecting phone lines across the north — and that includes 911 emergency lines in the Northwest Territories and Yukon.

The service provider Northwestel says a fire near Fort Liard, N.W.T., has caused service interruptions throughout the territory, and over its border. Yukon officials say the fire near Fort Nelson, B.C., is also playing a role.

"We'd like to advise our customers that active fires in the N.W.T. and B.C. have damaged telecommunications infrastructure, causing a disruption to internet, phone and mobility services in Yukon, northern B.C., [and the] Mackenzie Valley and Beaufort Delta regions of the N.W.T.," the company said on its Facebook page.

In Ontario, the average wait time for the thousands of prospective patients on the province's list looking to be connected to a family doctor is, according to the government, around 90 days.

But that, of course, is the average. And depending where one may reside in the province, the wait time can be significantly longer.

"In some places, we have patients who've been on the list for years," says Dr. Mike Green, president of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and a Kingston, Ont.-based doctor.

According to a recent survey, around six million Canadians are without a family doctor. But some provinces, to help facilitate a match, have created centralized waiting lists where people can register and eventually be matched with physicians who are taking new patients.

However, despite the benefits for patients, he said, at least in Ontario, only a relatively small number of the unattached patients in Ontario use them. About 200,000 are registered on HCC. But more than two million Ontarians are without a doctor, according to the Ontario Community Health Profiles Partnership, a website that publishes data on health-related services to meet community needs.

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Highway 97 expected to close, according to B.C. Wildfire Service.

Here we go again. Good luck and stay safe McMurray.

Executives at major food companies say they haven't seen an impact from the boycott, with one supplier noting higher than normal sales so far this month.

Another suspect is in custody in connection with the gold heist at Toronto Pearson International Airport last year, police say.

While many have to pay to access any of the dozens of parks across the country, there is a group that has been granted free admission.

A Listowel, Ont. man, drafted by the Hamilton Tigercats last week, is also getting looks from the National Football League (NFL), despite only playing 27 games of football in his life.

Brubacher only started playing football in 2021. The 23-year-old was born and raised in Listowel and didn’t have access to organized football.

“So obviously, going from no previous experience to the university level, there was definitely some times I was running around on the field like a chicken with my head cut off," Brubacher said.

Always wanting to be a professional athlete, Brubacher said he wasn’t the best at the sports available in his area. He took up boxing before attending Wilfrid Laurier University for Kinesiology. During the pandemic, he reached out to the football team for a tryout.

“We quickly responded with somewhat of a generic email that we send all walk-on prospects because he didn't have film and he didn't talk much about his stature. But when he quickly replied saying, 'I'm from Listowel Ontario. We didn't have high school football. We didn't have summer football but I've had experience in boxing and I'm 6’6” 250 lbs.’ All of a sudden we quickly responded and said, 'Yes, we're going to have an opportunity for you,'" Michael Faulds, head coach of the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks football team said.

Canada's economy added five times the number of jobs that were forecast for April and the unemployment rate unexpectedly held at 6.1 per cent, but wages grew at the slowest pace in 10 months, data showed on Friday.

The economy added a net 90,400 jobs while analysts polled by Reuters had forecast a gain of 18,000 jobs and the unemployment rate to rise to 6.2 per cent.

The gains - largest since the 110,000 jobs added in January 2023 - were a mix of part-time and full-time work, and entirely in the services-producing industries, data from Statistics Canada showed.

For some immigrants, their dreams of permanently settling in Canada have taken an unexpected twist.

As he battled cancer, Murphy continued to file, writing about Hamas and Christmas and interviewing Pierre Poilievre with his usual panache

I fear that, at a time when their job is more difficult than ever, we may be losing our will to support those who are working to keep us safe.