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B.C. fugitive found in Puerto Rico returned to Canada to stand trial for murder
By The Canadian Press on March 22nd, 2024
SURREY, B.C. – Police say a Canadian gang leader who escaped to Puerto Rico and posed as a businessman has been returned to Canada to face trial for his alleged role in a 2009 homicide in Vancouver. British Columbia’s gang squad, the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, says Conor D’Monte is being held in a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Maritime body approves new protections for shipping in Canadian Arctic
By The Canadian Press on March 22nd, 2024
The international body that regulates shipping is approving new environmental protections for the Canadian Arctic. The International Maritime Organization says it will tighten restrictions around fuels that vessels in those waters can use. The changes would reduce emissions of pollutants as well as black carbon, a fine soot that darkens sea ice and hastens its ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Speedy recovery’: Canadians respond to cancer diagnosis for Princess of Wales
By The Canadian Press on March 22nd, 2024
Canadians are wishing the Princess of Wales a speedy recovery after she announced she has cancer. Kate says in a video that she has been diagnosed with an unspecified type of cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. She asks for “time, space and privacy.” Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre posted on social media that he joins ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!N.L. fish harvesters reach deal, ending demonstration that shut down government
By The Canadian Press on March 22nd, 2024
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Fish harvesters who protested outside the Newfoundland and Labrador legislature this week have struck a deal with the provincial fisheries minister and ended their demonstration. John Efford, the fisherman who led the demonstrations, says the province has agreed to changes that will increase competition among processors and make it easier for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Time for Ottawa to protect Canadians from ‘forever chemicals,’ toxics experts say
By Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press on March 22nd, 2024
OTTAWA – Nearly a year after Health Canada issued a draft recommendation to designate an entire class of chemicals as toxic, environmental experts say it’s time to actually do something about it. There are now more than 10,000 variations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, which are used in hundreds of products from waterproof cosmetics and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Families of slain women to meet with governments, provide update on landfill search
By The Canadian Press on March 22nd, 2024
WINNIPEG – The families of two slain First Nations women are expected to provide an update in their push to get governments to fund a search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the women’s remains. The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and the families of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran are set to hold a news conference ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!OPP, Montreal police nab 34 in Project Volcano, aimed at Ontario car theft suspects
By The Canadian Press on March 22nd, 2024
HAWKESBURY, Ont. – Ontario Provincial Police and Montreal police say they’ve arrested 34 people in Quebec with outstanding warrants for car thefts and other serious crimes in Ontario. The arrests are part of Project Volcano, an operation by Ontario and Quebec police forces that took place over three days this week in the greater Montreal ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Veterans pan move to end military investigation, prosecution of sexual misconduct
By The Canadian Press on March 22nd, 2024
OTTAWA – Veterans and advocates say ending the military’s jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute sex crimes is the wrong move. Defence Minister Bill Blair has introduced changes to the National Defence Act based on a recommendation from former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour. Arbour had found Armed Forces members did not trust the military justice ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Time for Canada to protect Canadians from ‘forever chemicals,’ toxics experts say
By The Canadian Press on March 22nd, 2024
OTTAWA – Environmental experts on toxic chemicals say it’s well past time for Ottawa to protect Canadians from a whole class of substances known as “forever chemicals.” That is the term used to describe more than 10,000 different per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances which are used in hundreds of products from waterproof cosmetics to carpeting and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!OPP, Montreal police nab 31 in Project Volcano, aimed at Ontario car theft suspects
By The Canadian Press on March 22nd, 2024
HAWKESBURY, Ont. – Ontario Provincial Police and Montreal police say they’ve arrested 31 people in Quebec with outstanding warrants for car thefts and other serious crimes in Ontario. The arrests are part of Project Volcano, an operation by Ontario and Quebec police forces that took place over three days this week in the greater Montreal ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Cree community grieving after five people killed in collision in rural Quebec
By The Canadian Press on March 22nd, 2024
CHAPAIS, Que. – The Cree community of Waswanipi, Que., is in mourning after five people died in a collision between a pickup truck and a van in the rural town of Chapais on Thursday. The crash roughly 475 kilometres north of Montreal killed all four occupants of a van belonging to a Cree organization, as ... Read More »
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