Here's a look at past fatalities on Canadian military bases
Four military members were killed and dozens injured after a fire erupted Saturday at CFB Wainwright southeast of Edmonton.
There have been several fatalities at Canadian military facilities over the years. Here's a list of some of them:
October 2020: A soldier died after being shot during live-fire training at CFB Wainwright. The soldier was airlifted to an Edmonton hospital and died the following morning.
April 2017: Sgt. Robert J. Dynerowicz of the Royal Canadian Dragoons was killed and three other soldiers were injured in a vehicle accident during Exercise Rugged Bear at CFB Wainwright.
November 2014: Pte. Steven Allen, 20, of Victoria, died when a lookout tower collapsed during infantry training at CFB Wainwright. Another soldier in the tower wasn't seriously injured.
May 2014: Lt.-Col. Dan Bobbitt, commanding officer of the 2nd Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, died when a light armoured vehicle rolled over during a training mission for Exercise Maple Resolve 2014 at CFB Wainwright. Four other soldiers were injured.
March 2014: Nine soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry were taken to hospital after two military trucks collided during a training exercise near CFB Shilo in Manitoba.
January 2011: Cpl. Jean-Michel Deziel died after falling from a roof while installing a telecommunications antenna at CFB Valcartier in Quebec.
May 2008: U.S. army specialist Josef Cerfus, 25, died after being struck by a cargo load carried by a Chinook helicopter during a training exercise at CFB Wainwright. His unit was participating in Exercise Maple Guardian, which was preparing Canadian troops for deployment to Afghanistan.
May 2007: Cpl. Christopher Deliva, 27, of Quebec City, died when the 10-tonne military truck he was driving rolled at CFB Wainwright. He had been helping to return vehicles and equipment after a month-long training exercise for troops preparing for Afghanistan.
May 1999: Trooper Kevin Craig Zufelt, 30, was found dead inside a parked Coyote armoured vehicle while working alone during a training exercise at Camp Wainwright. He suffered a head injury, but officials were unsure what caused it. Nineteen paratroopers were also injured during a night jump earlier in the same exercise.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 18, 2026.
Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
Behind the push to make smoking and vaping illegal for a generation of Canadians
It's illegal for kids under 18 to buy tobacco products in Canada and there's a movement afoot to make sure today's youth are never allowed to light up a cigarette — even after they come of age.
A law that will take effect in the United Kingdom in January will prohibit anyone born after 2008 from ever legally buying cigarettes.
In Canada, lobbyists are pushing the federal government to go even further by banning smoking and vaping products for the next generation entirely.
Sarah Sleet, CEO of Asthma + Lung U.K., said there has been broad public support for the move in Britain but it took decades of lobbying and advocacy.
"If you survey smokers, they do not want their children to be smoking. They know what a terrible thing it is, they know how bad it is for their health, they know how expensive it is," she said.
The law also had cross-partisan support. It was proposed by a Conservative government in 2023 and eventually passed under the current Labour government.
The proposed bill initially included vaping products, but the final version is limited to smoking. The Lung Health Foundation in Canada wants to bring vaping into the conversation.
"Kids who vape are 3 1/2 times more likely to smoke tobacco in the future," said Jessica Buckley, president and CEO of the foundation.
Sleet said some in the United Kingdom were concerned about the law limiting access to vaping products that are used to help people stop smoking. The law did bring in stronger rules on the sale of vapes, including plain packaging and a requirement that stores keep the products behind screens.
The British law didn't come without pushback from the tobacco industry.
Eric Gagnon, vice-president of regulatory affairs for Imperial Tobacco Canada, said while he shares the goal of keeping cigarettes and vapes out of the hands of youth, the tobacco industry does not support a prohibition on smoking, however gradual.
He pointed out that Canada has gone in the opposite direction with cannabis by legalizing and regulating the product, despite research showing smoking and vaping cannabis is harmful. He also warned that a ban would feed the black market.
"Canada already has a huge illicit market, not only on cigarettes but on nicotine pouches, on vaping products," Gagnon said.
Convenience store retailers are also opposed to such a ban and argue the illicit market has well-documented links to organized crime.
"Canada is unique in the illegal tobacco market, with one of the most sophisticated contraband trades in the world. Illegal tobacco products account for 50 per cent of the national market, and even more in some regions," said Jeff Brownlee, vice-president of communications for the Convenience Industry Council of Canada.
Brownlee called for a national strategy to crack down on contraband.
In the United Kingdom, advocates' research showed the size of the illicit market "is massively overestimated," Sleet said. The British government said raising the smoking age to 18 from 16 in 2007 and 2008 led to a 25 per cent reduction in the number of illicit cigarettes consumed.
"What it takes is, obviously, strong enforcement," she said.

U.K. research estimates smoking costs the equivalent of $5.6 billion a year in health and social services, and costs the wider economy some $32 billion. Sleet said those sums outweigh the estimated losses in government revenue from excise taxes and sales of cigarettes.
In Canada, the estimated public cost of tobacco use is $11.2 billion a year and as many as 46,000 people die from tobacco-related illnesses each year.
The federal government collected $2.6 billion in tobacco excise tax revenue in 2024, according to a report from the parliamentary budget officer.
Buckley and dozens of advocates plan to be on Parliament Hill next week for a lobbying push to convince the federal government that a generational tobacco ban could save health care funding desperately needed for Canada's aging population.
"It's very difficult to have levers to pull on the health-care side in order to reduce those costs long-term," she said.
Buckley said they'll also be armed with polling that suggests broad public support in Canada for a generational ban.
She said they have meetings scheduled with advisers to Health Minister Marjorie Michel and her parliamentary secretary Maggie Chi.
Canada has a national strategy to reduce tobacco use to five per cent of the population by 2035 — currently, about 11 per cent of Canadians smoke — and directs $66 million a year toward stop-smoking programs.
Michel's office said in a statement that Canada isn't currently considering introducing a prohibition.
"We continue to monitor measures taken by like-minded countries to reduce youth smoking, including the United Kingdom's recent initiative," said Alexandre Bergeron, Michel's spokesperson.
From the other side of the pond, Sleet has a message for Canadian lawmakers.
"Be brave, go for it," she said. "You're not going to regret it."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 18, 2026.
By Sarah Ritchie | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
Explosion and fire at Alberta's CFB Wainwright, MP reporting 'significant casualties'
An Alberta member of Parliament says he's hearing there are "significant casualties" after an explosion and fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright southeast of Edmonton.
Dane Lloyd, who represents a riding west of Edmonton, asks in a social media post for people to pray for the soldiers and their families.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith also say on social media that they are in contact during the evolving situation.
STARS air ambulance says it has dispatched two air ambulances to Wainwright, from Saskatoon and Edmonton.
The base is 200 kilometres from the Alberta capital, just outside the town of Wainwright.
It’s one Canada's busiest military training bases, used mainly to train soldiers and prepare units for combat operations.
It's also the site of the Canadian Manoeuvre Training Centre, which prepares military units to operate together in realistic battlefield conditions, and the 3rd Canadian Division Training Centre, which provides basic infantry training.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 17, 2026.
Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.

7 «hacks» au IKEA que t'aurais voulu savoir avant pour économiser gros et refaire ta déco
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Rénovation, décoration, déménagement ou envie soudaine de boulettes à la viande, toutes les raisons sont bonnes pour faire un tour au IKEA. Le hic, c'est qu'avec tous ces produits à bas prix au design attirant, on peut très bien se retrouver avec un panier bien rempli qui fait grimper la facture.
Si tu penses bientôt te perdre dans les corridors de cet énorme magasin bleu et jaune, sache qu'il existe une tonne d'astuces pour obtenir des rabais et faire quelques économies. Narcity t'a répertorié sept hacks pratiques à savoir pour tes prochaines emplettes déco.
Remplacer ou réparer des pièces gratuitement
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« Prépare ton ticket de caisse et des photos de l'article et contacte l'équipe du service après-vente pour qu'elle puisse vous aider. Vous pouvez aussi vous rendre dans votre magasin IKEA local pour obtenir de l'aide », peut-on lire sur le site Web de la compagnie. Tu dois par contre t'assurer que la garantie s'applique toujours.
Acheter un meuble usagé
As-tu déjà remarqué que dans son gigantesque entrepôt, la multinationale suédoise possède une pièce spécialement pour les meubles usagés ou les meubles « tel quel »? Ça vaut assurément le détour puisque ces articles sont vendus beaucoup moins chers et peuvent ne contenir que de légers défauts. Tu peux facilement repartir avec un sofa beaucoup moins cher que si tu l'avais encore en boîte.
La carte IKEA Family
IKEA offre à sa clientèle une carte spéciale, la carte Family, qui te permet d'accéder à des offres et réductions de prix exclusives pour les membres. Tu peux aussi obtenir un repas gratuit (à toi les petites boulettes!) en achetant dix repas chez IKEA, et ce, seulement si tu détiens la carte. Tu peux t'inscrire à ce programme gratuitement sur le site Web de l'entreprise.
Utiliser l'application IKEA
Femme utilisant l'application.
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Pratique, l'application IKEA te permet de magasiner beaucoup plus rapidement et de voir facilement si l'article de tes rêves est encore disponible en magasin. Tu peux aussi profiter de rabais spéciaux, créer une liste d'items coup de coeur et scanner un article directement sur ton app pour voir le prix s'afficher. Une façon efficace de sauver du temps dans ce gigantesque labyrinthe d'inspiration.
Revendre ses meubles pour des crédits en magasin
Savais-tu que tu peux revendre tes meubles IKEA usagés? Tu dois envoyer des photos de ton meuble à la compagnie qui s'affairera à évaluer celui-ci selon différents critères. Si ton article d'occasion est accepté, tu pourras le ramener en magasin et obtenir un crédit sur tes prochains achats.
Ce programme est, par contre, disponible pour les membres IKEA Family seulement, mais tu peux y adhérer gratuitement.
Les meubles réinventés
Une tonne de créateur.trices de contenu sur les réseaux sociaux, que ce soit TikTok, Instagram ou YouTube, présente des trucs ingénieux pour composer ou revamper un meuble IKEA pour beaucoup moins cher que si tu l'avais payé dans un autre magasin. Suffit d'avoir un peu de temps libre, de l'imagination et un esprit de « patenteux.euse ».
Obtenir un café gratuit
Besoin d'un peu d'énergie pour affronter la longue filée de gens aux caisses? Tu peux recevoir un café ou un thé gratuitement grâce au programme de fidélité IKEA Family. Prends-toi une tasse, fais couler le liquide chaud caféiné, puis scanne ta carte à la caisse. Ce sera ça de moins sur ta facture!