While temperatures may be easing in certain parts of the country, “the warmest part of the summer is yet to come,” a senior climatologist for Environment Canada says. “We think that July and into August will be warmer than normal,” Dave Phillips told CTV News Channel on Monday about recent modelling. “So hey, Canadians who like their summers warm — and it hasn’t been I think memorably warm except just recently — I think we’ll find a warmer than normal summer.”  Sign up for The Climate Barometer, delivered right toRead more

Hot and humid summer temperatures are here, and so are the dangers of heat-related illnesses like heat stroke. “Heat-related illnesses are those illnesses attributable to excess heat on the body causing dysregulation and dysfunction of normal organ systems, and in severe cases, leads to organ failure and death,” Dr. David Ng, an emergency physician in downtown Toronto, told CTVNews.ca. “Severe heat illness leading to organ failure and death is generally uncommon overall, but when it does, it occurs in an epidemic cluster of cases all at once.” High temperatures killedRead more

One of the United Kingdom’s largest airports suspended flights on Monday after high temperatures damaged a runway. Temperatures soared up to 37 degrees Celsius (about 99 degrees Fahrenheit) in some parts of the country. London Luton Airport announced the situation via Twitter and updated its status when the airport resumed operations on Monday evening. An “essential runway repair” was required “after high surface temperatures caused a small section to lift,” the airport said on Twitter. Full operations resumed just after 6 p.m. in London. Luton Airport’s announcement came hours afterRead more

Julianne Moore has been selected to serve as president of the main competition jury for the Venice International Film Festival this year, festival director Alberto Barbera announced Friday. The Oscar-winning actor will preside over a jury that includes French director Audrey Diwan, whose film “Happening” won the Golden Lion last year, author Kazuo Ishiguro (“Never Let Me Go”) and Iranian actor Leila Hatami (“A Separation”). Also on the jury are Italian director Leonardo Di Costanzo (“The Inner Cage”) Argentinian filmmaker Mariano Cohn (“Official Competition”) and Rodrigo Sorogoyen (“The Candidate”). AllRead more

Actor Pat John, known for the classic Canadian comedy-drama series “The Beachcombers,” has died, according to one of his co-stars. John was a teenager when he was cast as Jesse Jim in the long-running CBC program, and went on to appear in hundreds of episodes, as well as the 2002 TV movie “The New Beachcombers.” He died Wednesday at the age of 69. John had faced health problems in recent years, but at the time of his death was sitting outdoors “looking more peaceful than he has in a longRead more

ROME – Soprano Angel Blue says she won’t perform in an opera in Italy this month because blackface was used in the staging of a different work this summer on the same stage. The U.S. singer posted a note on her angeljoyblue Instagram page saying she will be bowing out of “La Traviata” at Verona’s Arena this month because the theater recently mounted another Giuseppe Verdi opera, “Aida,” that had performers in blackface. She blasted such use of “archaic” theatrical practices as “offensive, humiliating, and outright racist.” Angel Blue, however,Read more

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have obtained a marriage license in Nevada, according to court records posted Sunday. Clark County Court records in Nevada showed the pair obtained a marriage license that was processed Saturday. A marriage license is not proof of marriage. Representatives for Lopez and Affleck did not immediately respond to messages. In April, Lopez made their engagement public in a video posted to her fans showing off a green engagement ring. The court filing showed that Lopez plans to take the name Jennifer Affleck. RELATED STORIES JenniferRead more

With concerts and music festivals in full swing once against, Rage Against the Machine is using the stage to highlight injustices against Indigenous people in Canada. While performing at this year’s Bluesfest last Friday in Ottawa, the U.S. rap-rock band displayed statistics on the violence experienced by Indigenous community members across the country. “An Indigenous person in Canada is over 10 times more likely to be shot and killed by a police officer than a white person is,” read a screen behind the band during the show, citing an analysis conductedRead more

Caro Quintero was convicted of murder, torture of U.S. anti-narcotics agent in 1985 Mexico’s navy on Friday captured drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, convicted of murdering a U.S. anti-narcotics agent in 1985, in a law enforcement coup that also saw the crash of a helicopter used in the mission, leaving 14 military personnel dead. Marines flushed out Caro Quintero with a bloodhound in a far-flung corner of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, one of Mexico’s drug-trafficking heartlands, before the Black Hawk chopper came down as it was about to landRead more

Watchdog accused SS of deleting ‘many’ messages after asked for records, agency disputes claim The U.S. congressional panel probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol in Washington said it had subpoenaed the Secret Service as it investigates accusations by a watchdog that the agency erased text messages sought as evidence. “The Select Committee seeks the relevant text messages, as well as any after action reports that have been issued in any and all divisions of the USSS pertaining or relating in any way to the events of JanuaryRead more