Canada's and your city's news, weather alerts, air quality, border waits
Canada's news, and your city's: from Victoria to St. John's, Iqaluit to Windsor.
NOT A GOVERNMENT APP: Canada News is independent. It does not represent the Government of Canada, any province, Parliament or any government agency, and is not affiliated with them. Every source is listed under SOURCES.
NEWS
By topic (politics, Canada and the US, money and housing, immigration, Indigenous, wildfires, hockey, basketball and more) and by city, with paywalled stories marked. A notification at most once a day for what you follow, never at night. Tap a term under a headline (TFSA, riding) to see what it means.
TODAY
For your city, on its clock: Environment Canada's warnings, with alerts; the weather; air quality (AQHI) and wildfire smoke, with an alert at high risk; tonight's northern lights; wildfires near you; border waits both ways; the loonie and the Bank of Canada; earthquakes nearby; the next long weekend.
OTTAWA
Whether the House sits today, the bills moving through Parliament with their official summaries, and the latest votes with how each party voted.
CALENDAR AND LEARN
Your province's holidays, benefit payment dates (CCB, GST/HST credit, CPP and OAS), tax day, rate decisions, with reminders. A French phrase a day, and "Canada explained": 130 terms.
SOURCES
Government information, and its official source:
Weather alerts, air quality: Environment and Climate Change Canada, https://weather.gc.ca/
Earthquakes: Natural Resources Canada, https://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/index-en.php
Wildfires: CIFFC, https://ciffc.net/
Border waits: CBSA, https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/bwt-taf/menu-eng.html; U.S. CBP, https://bwt.cbp.gov/
Rates: Bank of Canada, https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/exchange/daily-exchange-rates/
Holidays: CRA, https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/public-holidays.html
Benefit dates: CRA, https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/child-family-benefits/benefit-payment-dates.html
CPP, OAS and more: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/calendar.html
Government of Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en.html (and nrc.canada.ca for the clocks)
Bills: LEGISinfo, https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bills
House of Commons: https://www.ourcommons.ca/en/sitting-calendar and https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/votes
Votes, republished: OpenParliament.ca, https://openparliament.ca/
Aurora forecast: NOAA SWPC, spaceweather.gov
Everything else, and its source:
News: CBC News, Global News, CityNews, CTV News, CP24, The Canadian Press, BNN Bloomberg, The Globe and Mail, National Post, Financial Post, Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, Vancouver Sun, The Province, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Regina Leader-Post, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette, The Hamilton Spectator, Winnipeg Free Press, Times Colonist, SaltWire, Cabin Radio, Nunatsiaq News, Yukon News, The Tyee, The Narwhal, Canada's National Observer, iPolitics, The Hill Times, CIC News, BetaKit, MobileSyrup, Sportsnet, TSN, APTN News, Maclean's, Prime Minister of Canada
Through Google News: Reuters, AP, BBC, Bloomberg, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, POLITICO, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, CNN, NPR, CNBC, ESPN, The Athletic, NHL, MLB, NBA
Weather: Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com), MET Norway. Photos and flags: Wikimedia Commons, credited in the app.
WHAT IT CAN'T DO
Stories are the publishers' own; some ask you to subscribe. Alerts come minutes after the source issues them: in an emergency call 911. Next year's benefit dates are expected until published.
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Novedades
A completely revamped app. Canada's news and your city's, with notifications for what you follow; Environment Canada alerts, air quality and wildfire smoke; the northern lights; border waits; the loonie and the Bank of Canada; an Ottawa tab with Parliament's bills and votes; holidays and benefit dates by province with reminders; and a French phrase a day.