B.C. officials warn residents to take care when they return to fire zones
By The Canadian Press on September 12th, 2023
VANCOUVER – As an out-of-control wildfire still burns near West Kelowna, B.C., officials in the region say evacuated residents should brace themselves for their return to neighbourhoods they may no longer recognize. Officials from the Regional District of Central Okanagan say crews are still busy putting out hot spots and repairing damaged infrastructure affected by ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A list of some of those found not criminally responsible by a court
By The Canadian Press on September 12th, 2023
VANCOUVER – Blair Donnelly, 64, faces three counts of aggravated assault over allegations he stabbed and injured three people at a Vancouver Chinatown festival on Sunday. Donnelly was free on day release from the forensic psychiatric hospital in Metro Vancouver. He was originally in care after being found not criminally responsible for the 2006 murder ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Tamara Lich told supporters to ‘hold the line’ over Emergencies Act, court hears
By Laura Osman, The Canadian Press on September 12th, 2023
OTTAWA – Tamara Lich promised that “Freedom Convoy” demonstrators in downtown Ottawa would remain “peaceful but planted” as reports emerged that Prime Minister Minister Justin Trudeau was ready to invoke the Emergencies Act to end the protest, a courtroom heard Tuesday. “No matter what you do, we will hold the line,” Lich, a figurehead in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!No mixed-gender bathrooms in Quebec schools, education minister says
By The Canadian Press on September 12th, 2023
Quebec’s education minister says it’s out of the question to have mixed-gender bathrooms in the province’s schools. Bernard Drainville was reacting to news that a high school in Rouyn-Noranda, in the province’s northwest, was starting work to provide gender-neutral bathrooms to its students for the 2024-25 school year. School officials have said the proposed bathrooms ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hurricane Lee to weaken as it approaches Maritimes, but will still pack a punch
By Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press on September 12th, 2023
HALIFAX – Hurricane Lee is expected to lash parts of the Maritimes with strong winds and heavy rain this weekend, but the Canadian Hurricane Centre says much of its strength will be sapped by cooler sea-surface temperatures as it moves north. By early Tuesday afternoon, the Category 3 hurricane was about 900 kilometres south of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hurricane Lee to weaken as it approaches Maritimes, but it will still pack a punch
By Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press on September 12th, 2023
HALIFAX – Hurricane Lee is expected to lash parts of the Maritimes with strong winds and heavy rain this weekend, but the Canadian Hurricane Centre says much of its strength will be sapped by cooler sea-surface temperatures as it moves north. By early Tuesday afternoon, the Category 3 hurricane was about 900 kilometres south of ... Read More »
1 response‘Freedom Convoy’ Facebook page evidence shows influence and arrests of organizers
By Laura Osman, The Canadian Press on September 12th, 2023
OTTAWA – After weeks of protest during one of the coldest months of the winter, “Freedom Convoy” organizer Chris Barber recorded himself on a walk through the blockaded streets of Ottawa as supporters stopped him to ask him for photos. In a video posted Feb. 12, 2022, one person who ran into Barber on the ... Read More »
1 responseBill prompts call for Quebec to recognize systemic racism in health system
By The Canadian Press on September 12th, 2023
Quebec’s College of Physicians says the government is taking a “paternalistic and colonialist” approach with new legislation aimed at improving the treatment of Indigenous people in the health network. The professional order overseeing the province’s doctors was the first group to testify at two days of consultations on a bill aimed at instituting a “cultural ... Read More »
1 responseEnvironment minister must unblock Rebel News founder Levant on X under court order
By The Canadian Press on September 12th, 2023
OTTAWA – Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault must unblock Rebel News founder Ezra Levant on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, under the terms of a court order. The order issued by Federal Court Justice Russel Zinn ends an action Levant filed two years ago claiming the Liberal minister was violating his constitutional ... Read More »
1 response‘White-hot angry’: Eby vows investigation of Chinatown stabbing suspect’s release
By The Canadian Press on September 12th, 2023
SURREY, B.C. – British Columbia Premier David Eby says he is “white-hot” angry over the day release of a man from a forensic psychiatric hospital before he was arrested for a triple stabbing in Vancouver’s Chinatown. Eby said the decision to release the man boggles the mind, and he wants to get to the bottom ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Walkerton and XL Foods: A look at some of the major E. coli 0157 outbreaks in Canada
By The Canadian Press on September 12th, 2023
An outbreak of E. coli infections at several Calgary day centres has infected more than 200 people, most of them children. It’s not the first major outbreak of the food-borne illness, which is caused by bacteria that live in the feces of animals and is carried to humans through undercooked meat, unpasteurized food or contaminated ... Read More »
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