Evacuated Hay River mayor says town in better shape than feared the night before
By The Canadian Press on August 26th, 2023
The mayor of an evacuated town in the Northwest Territories says her community is “in much better condition” than anyone could have imagined only a day earlier, when high winds and hot temperatures propelled a wildfire closer and forced fire crews and other non-essential workers to retreat. Hay River Mayor Kandis Jameson says in a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Salvation Army leader supports Kelowna-area fire fight with free meals
By Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press on August 26th, 2023
WEST KELOWNA, B.C. – Jennifer Hansen was evacuated from her home in the West Kelowna, B.C., area last week, but that hasn’t stopped the Westside Salvation Army captain from feeding firefighters and other evacuees. “It feels real good,” said Hansen, standing in front of a Salvation Army emergency disaster response vehicle parked at a West ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘All about emotions’ as some evacuees return home, West Kelowna fire chief says
By The Canadian Press on August 26th, 2023
The fire chief of West Kelowna, B.C., says it’s “all about emotions” as his community begins to process the devastation wrought by a fast-moving wildfire nine days ago. Jason Brolund says he and his crews are “gutted by the losses” of more than 180 homes in communities on the shores of Okanagan Lake. But he ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Receiving death threats not regular part of Quebec elementary teacher’s job: tribunal
By The Canadian Press on August 26th, 2023
LÉVIS, Que. – A Quebec labour tribunal has found an elementary teacher suffered a workplace injury after a student brought knives to school and told classmates he planned to kill her. The teacher, identified only as K.R. in the ruling, says the November 2019 incident and the boy’s continued presence in her class led to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘A protected right’: Saskatchewan family speaks out over pronoun and name changes
By Jeremy Simes, The Canadian Press on August 26th, 2023
REGINA – Kiké Dueck loves gym class, especially long-distance running. The 10-year-old, who is nonbinary, says everyone at school “is really good about gender,” but knows not all parents are accepting. “There’s a few people in my school that are in the LGBTQ2S+ community but are afraid to tell their parents,” said Dueck, sitting beside ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Joly heads to Slovenia, North Macedonia, Albania as Canada tries for more UN presence
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on August 26th, 2023
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is headed to eastern Europe as part of a push to shore up Canada’s ties with countries in Russia’s backyard. Her trip to Slovenia, North Macedonia and Albania follows a commitment by members of the NATO military alliance to support democracies facing Russian meddling and misinformation. In Slovenia, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!University students struggling to find housing in Calgary and other cities
By Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press on August 26th, 2023
CALGARY – Luis Sanchez Diaz didn’t win a lottery this year for on-campus housing at the University of Calgary, but he still considers himself lucky. The international student, who’s in his fourth year of a political science degree, studied online during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 from Cuernavaca,Mexico. He moved to Calgary in fall 2021 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!U.S. team to digitize Quaker boarding school records, drawing inspiration from Canada
By Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press on August 26th, 2023
OTTAWA – A coalition advocating for Indigenous Peoples forced to attend boarding schools in the United States is planning to digitize 20,000 archival pages related to schools that were operated by the Quakers. Outside of Native Nations, most people aren’t even aware these schools were an integral part of history and U.S. federal Indian policy, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!More evacuation orders rescinded in B.C. fires as warm, dry weather returns
By The Canadian Press on August 26th, 2023
Evacuation orders in the Central Okanagan region of British Columbia continue to be rescinded as more residents are allowed to return home. The Central Okanagan Emergency Operations Centre says it has lifted a number of evacuation orders throughout communities in West Kelowna, Westbank First Nation and District of Lake Country. Meanwhile, crews say they were ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Wildfire forces crews to retreat, threatens key hub point of Hay River, N.W.T.
By The Canadian Press on August 25th, 2023
YELLOWKNIFE – Wildfires advanced closer to the transportation hub point of Hay River in the Northwest Territories Friday, forcing crews to retreat and non-essential workers to flee. “Extremely high temperatures and strong southwest winds have created a blow-up event that has overwhelmed firefighters at the north end of the fire,” fire information officer Jessica Davey-Quantick ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ali murder trial: lawyer suggests to dead girl’s mother they had a poor relationship
By Ashley Joannou, The Canadian Press on August 25th, 2023
VANCOUVER – A lawyer for a man accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl found dead in a Burnaby, B.C., park six years ago has suggested to the girl’s mother that they had a poor relationship, to the point where the teen didn’t want to be around her. Ibrahim Ali’s lawyer Kevin McCullough also suggested to ... Read More »
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