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Canada may fast-track immigration applications from people in earthquake zone
By The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
OTTAWA – Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says Canada may fast-track applications to come to Canada from people in the earthquake zones of Turkey and Syria. Two major earthquakes rocked southwestern Turkey and northwestern Syria in a matter of hours on Monday, destroying thousands of buildings. The confirmed death toll keeps rising, with more than 19,000 ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Toronto woman mourns family killed by devastating earthquake in Syria
By The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
TORONTO – A Toronto woman says she’s devastated after seven members of her family were killed in the massive earthquake that hit parts of Syria and Turkey earlier this week. Aya Hammoud, who came to Canada as a refugee in 2017, says her grandfather, his wife, her four cousins and their mother died when the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘There are kids under the bus’: Quebec father recounts moments after bus hit daycare
By Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
LAVAL, Que. – Grief-stricken community members dropped off flowers and stuffed animals on Thursday at the scene of an alleged bus attack against a daycare north of Montreal that killed two children and sent six to hospital. André Beaudoin, a father of a two-year-old boy who attends the Laval, Que., daycare, returned to the scene ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. lumber industry on edge after Biden ups the ante on Buy American policies
By The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
WASHINGTON – British Columbia’s lumber industry is anxiously parsing U.S. President Joe Biden’s latest Buy American language to better understand the implications for Canadian exporters. The B.C. Lumber Trade Council says it’s “concerning” that Biden says he wants to restrict the use of foreign lumber in federally funded infrastructure projects. Biden announced the expanded rules ... Read More »
1 responseTwo children injured in alleged bus attack on Quebec daycare released from hospital
By Morgan Lowrie and Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
LAVAL, Que. – Two children injured after a transit driver drove a city bus into a Quebec daycare have been released from hospital, Montreal health officials said Thursday. Two four-year-olds were killed and six other young children were hospitalized after the alleged attack Wednesday in Laval, Que., just north of Montreal. Officials with Montreal’s Sainte-Justine ... Read More »
1 responseQuebec police say four people dead in home destroyed by fire north of Montreal
By The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
SAINTE-JULIENNE, Que. – The bodies of four people have been found in a home north of Montreal after a fire broke out early Thursday morning. Provincial police say the house in Ste-Julienne, in Quebec’s Lanaudière region, caught fire at around 1 a.m. Sgt. Éloïse Cossette says that when the blaze was brought under control, firefighters ... Read More »
1 responseIn The News for Feb. 9 : Canada mourns victims of Montreal daycare bus attack
By The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 9 … What we are watching in Canada … Quebec Premier François Legault is to visit a Montreal suburb today where a transit driver ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec premier to visit Montreal suburb where daycare bus attack killed two children
By The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
LAVAL, Que. – Quebec Premier François Legault is to visit a Montreal suburb today where a transit driver crashed a bus into a daycare, killing two children and injuring six others. Legault says he will be joined by the leaders of Quebec’s opposition parties to offer support to the families and daycare workers affected by ... Read More »
1 responseTrust in governments shows signs of life as pandemic starts to fade
By Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press on February 9th, 2023
OTTAWA – An annual survey on how trusting Canadians are suggests their faith in governments is rebounding as the COVID-19 pandemic begins to fade. The 2023 CanTrust Index published by Proof Strategies surveyed 1,502 adults online between Jan. 5 and Jan. 13 but cannot be given a margin of error because internet polls are not ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lotto 649 winning numbers for Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023
By The Canadian Press on February 8th, 2023
TORONTO – The winning numbers in Wednesday’s Lotto 649 draw for an estimated $5 million: 06, 12, 19, 24, 38 & 47. Bonus: 27 The winning number for the guaranteed $1 million: 58141466-03 In the event of any discrepancy between this list and the official winning numbers, the latter shall prevail... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. fines Teck Coal more than $16 million over Elk Valley infractions
By The Canadian Press on February 8th, 2023
The British Columbia government has fined Teck Coal Limited more than $16 million for exceeding pollution thresholds as well as failing to build an active water treatment facility on time at one of its operations in southeastern B.C. The province’s natural resources compliance and enforcement database shows three fines were issued at the end of ... Read More »
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