More than 115 cases of eye damage reported in Ontario after solar eclipse
More than 115 people who viewed the solar eclipse in Ontario earlier this month experienced eye damage after the event, according to eye doctors in the province.
Canada added yet another bronze to its collection at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Thursday after rowing pair Caileigh Filmer and Hillary Janssens landed on the podium.
Here’s a look at some of the 2020 Summer Olympic events you may have missed overnight.
Canada's Caileigh Filmer and Hillary Janssens react after winning the bronze in the women's pair rowing final event during the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, July 29, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Caileigh Filmer and Hillary Janssens took home Canada's first rowing medal of the Tokyo Games after capturing the bronze in women's pair. Canada established an early lead in the 2,000-metre race and was able to hang on late to capture third place, 0.65 of a second behind the Russian Olympic Committee's Vasilisa Stepanova and Elena Oriabinskaia. New Zealand's Grace Prendergast and Kerri Gowler took home gold in the event.
Canada's Penny Oleksiak, left to right, Kayla Sanchez, Summer McIntosh and Rebecca Smith react to their fourth place finish in the women's 4x200m swimming final event during the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games, July 29, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Canada was just shy of reaching the podium in the 4x200m freestyle relay despite setting a Canadian record in the pool event. Penny Oleksiak, Summer McIntosh, Kayla Sanchez and Rebecca Smith finished in fourth at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, behind China's world-record time of seven minutes 40.33 seconds, the United States in second and Australia third.
Canada's Shay Colley shoots over South Korea's An Jin during a women's basketball game at the 2020 Summer Olympics, July 29, 2021, in Saitama, Japan. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
After losing the opening match to Serbia, Canada bounced back in women's basketball Thursday capturing their first win of the tourney, besting Korea with a score of 74-53. Canada will play its final round-robin game on Saturday against Spain.
Canada's Britt Benn is tackled by Fiji's Ana Maria Naimasi in their women's rugby sevens match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, July 29, 2021 in Japan. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
Team Canada split the start of the women's rugby sevens tourney, blanking Brazil 33-0 before dropping the second match of the day to Fiji 26-12. The Canadian women, led by veteran captain Ghislaine Landry, earned a bronze medal in the first Olympic appearance for rugby sevens at the Rio Games in 2016. The women wrap up their group play schedule against an undefeated France on Friday.
Canada's Shady Elnahas, top, and Peter Paltchik of Israel compete in the men's -100kg repechage contest for the judo match of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, July 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Canadian judoka Shady El-Nahas finished in 5th in the men's 100-kilogram division after losing his repechage bronze medal match against Jorge Fonseca of Portugal. Canada has two bronze medals in judo at this Olympics, coming from Jessica Klimkait in the women's 57-kilogram and from Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard in the 63-kilogram.
More than 115 people who viewed the solar eclipse in Ontario earlier this month experienced eye damage after the event, according to eye doctors in the province.
A Sherwood Park family says their new house is uninhabitable. The McNaughton's say they were forced to leave the house after living there for only a week because contaminants inside made it difficult to breathe.
A man has been handed a lengthy hunting ban and fined thousands of dollars for illegally killing a grizzly bear, B.C. conservation officers say.
The B.C. NDP has asked the federal government to recriminalize public drug use, marking a major shift in the province's approach to addressing the deadly overdose crisis.
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) says it's investigating an interaction between a uniformed officer and anti-Trudeau government protestors after a video circulated on social media.
An emergency slide fell off a Delta Air Lines jetliner shortly after takeoff Friday from New York, and pilots who felt a vibration in the plane circled back to land safely at JFK Airport.
Sophie Gregoire Trudeau says there is 'still so much love' between her and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as they navigate their post-separation relationship co-parenting their three children.
George Mallory is renowned for being one of the first British mountaineers to attempt to scale the dizzying heights of Mount Everest during the 1920s. Nearly a century later, newly digitized letters shed light on Mallory’s hopes and fears about ascending Everest.
A loud explosion was heard across Hamilton on Friday after a propane tank was accidentally destroyed and detonated at a local scrap metal yard, police say.
As if a 4-0 Edmonton Oilers lead in Game 1 of their playoff series with the Los Angeles Kings wasn't good enough, what was announced at Rogers Place during the next TV timeout nearly blew the roof off the downtown arena.
Mounties in Nanaimo, B.C., say two late-night revellers are lucky their allegedly drunken antics weren't reported to police after security cameras captured the men trying to steal a heavy sign from a downtown business.
A property tax bill is perplexing a small townhouse community in Fergus, Ont.
When identical twin sisters Kim and Michelle Krezonoski were invited to compete against some of the world’s most elite female runners at last week’s Boston Marathon, they were in disbelief.
The giant stone statues guarding the Lions Gate Bridge have been dressed in custom Vancouver Canucks jerseys as the NHL playoffs get underway.
A local Oilers fan is hoping to see his team cut through the postseason, so he can cut his hair.
A family from Laval, Que. is looking for answers... and their father's body. He died on vacation in Cuba and authorities sent someone else's body back to Canada.
A former educational assistant is calling attention to the rising violence in Alberta's classrooms.
The federal government says its plan to increase taxes on capital gains is aimed at wealthy Canadians to achieve “tax fairness.”