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B.C. Interior Health says 53 patients taken to three hospitals after highway crash
By The Canadian Press on December 25th, 2022
A bus crash on a highway in the British Columbia Interior has sent more than 50 people to hospital. Few details have been released about the incident, but Interior Health tweeted 53 people are being treated at three hospitals in Kelowna, Penticton and Merritt. The regional health authority says a Code Orange response has been ... Read More »
1 responseCP NewsAlert: BC Interior Health says 53 people in three hospitals after bus crash
By The Canadian Press on December 25th, 2022
A bus crash on a highway in the British Columbia Interior has sent more than 50 people to hospital. Few details have been released about the incident, but Interior Health tweeted 53 people are being treated at three hospitals in Kelowna, Penticton and Merritt. The regional health authority says a Code Orange response has been ... Read More »
1 responseOntario Walmart turns into ‘hotel’ as storm-stranded shoppers get stuck for the night
By The Canadian Press on December 24th, 2022
CHATHAM, Ont. – A quick errand to Walmart turned into an overnight adventure for dozens of shoppers in southern Ontario when whiteout conditions meant they couldn’t leave the store, and employees pumped up air mattresses and set up a buffet with deli food for the unexpected guests. “The cars were in ditches. Some of them ... Read More »
1 responseFive people killed in multiple fires amid winter storm, police say
By The Canadian Press on December 24th, 2022
MONTREAL – Authorities are urging people without power to be careful after five people died in a series of deadly fires in Quebec, two of which are under investigation by provincial police. Three people are dead, including a 36-year-old woman, after a fire in Saint-Basile, Que., near Quebec City. Provincial police say firefighters were called ... Read More »
1 responseQuebec provincial police investigating two deadly overnight fires amid power outages
By The Canadian Press on December 24th, 2022
MONTREAL – Hydro-Québec is urging people without power to be careful after two deadly fires in the province, both of which are under investigation by provincial police. Police spokesman Sgt. Stéphane Tremblay says firefighters found the body of one person at a residence in Louiseville, Que., northeast of Montreal, after a fire that started around ... Read More »
1 responseTrudeau says Canada is fortunate to be a ‘country of peace’ in Christmas message
By The Canadian Press on December 24th, 2022
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is asking Canadians to remind themselves how fortunate they are “to live in a country of peace.” Trudeau says in his annual Christmas address that it’s the season when life slows down and “Christmas movies, including Die Hard, are on repeat.” But he says that 2022 was a challenging ... Read More »
1 responseParadox between warming climate and intense snowstorms, say scientists
By Hina Alam, The Canadian Press on December 24th, 2022
FREDERICTON – There is a complex, counterintuitive relationship between rising global temperatures and the likelihood of increasingly intense snowstorms across Canada. Winters are becoming on average milder and warmer than they used to be, but there has also been a noted rise across the country in extreme weather events, such as intense snowstorms, said John ... Read More »
1 responseStorms, extreme weather shut down power and strand holiday travellers across Canada
By The Canadian Press on December 24th, 2022
Weather warnings remain in place across the country as major storms continue to dump snow and freezing rain on Quebec, Ontario and B.C., and batter the Atlantic provinces with heavy rain and powerful winds. Hundreds of thousands of customers have been left without power in the final hours before Christmas, with hydro crews working around ... Read More »
1 responseThe latest news on winter storms complicating holiday travel across Canada
By The Canadian Press on December 24th, 2022
The latest news on storms and other extreme weather shutting down power and creating difficult travel conditions at the peak of the holiday season across Canada: 9 9:50 a.m. Lights are out for more than 90,000 power customers across Atlantic Canada. About 41,000 customers in Nova Scotia are still without power as of late morning ... Read More »
1 responseWhistleblower group criticizes federal review of wrongdoing disclosure regime
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press on December 24th, 2022
OTTAWA – An advocacy group for those who reveal wrongdoing says it cannot support a new task force looking at the federal whistleblowing regime because it lacks someone with “lived experience” as an actual whistleblower. In a letter to Treasury Board President Mona Fortier, Whistleblowing Canada Research Society president Pamela Forward calls the absence a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Weather warnings in place across Canada as fierce storms move across the country
By The Canadian Press on December 24th, 2022
Weather warnings remain in place across the country as major storms continue to dump snow and freezing rain on Quebec, Ontario and B.C., and batter the Atlantic provinces with heavy rain and powerful winds. Hundreds of thousands of customers have been left without power in the final hours before Christmas, with hydro crews working around ... Read More »
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