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As Canada renews strategy for Rohingya crisis, advocates urge rethink
By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on May 19th, 2024
OTTAWA – As Canada’s strategy for supporting Rohingya people expires, advocates are calling for a rethink of how Ottawa is trying to limit suffering in refugee camps in Bangladesh, and to rout the military junta overseeing ethnic violence in Myanmar. “We cannot turn away from this,” said Bob Rae, Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the fight for planetary health, how do we preserve our mental health?
By Jordan Omstead, The Canadian Press on May 19th, 2024
TORONTO – It was early May and wildfire season had already started to rage in Western Canada when seven people settled into a monthly support-group meeting over Zoom. The facilitator, Toronto-based Kady Cowan, opened the conversation by prompting others to acknowledge any climate change-related concerns weighing on their minds. Worrying her, Cowan said in her ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Residents forced out of Fort McMurray neighbourhoods due to fire cleared to return
By The Canadian Press on May 18th, 2024
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. – The Alberta municipality governing the oilsands hub of Fort McMurray says residents ordered out due to a nearby wildfire are clear to return home as of today. The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo has lifted the evacuation order for the Abasand, Beacon Hill, Prairie Creek and Grayling Terrace neighbourhoods on the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: evacuation order lifted for Fort McMurray neighbourhoods
By The Canadian Press on May 18th, 2024
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. – The Alberta municipality governing the oilsands hub of Fort McMurray says residents ordered out due to a nearby wildfire are clear to return home as of today. The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo has lifted the evacuation order for Abasand, Beacon Hill, Prairie Creek, and Grayling Terrace, neighbourhoods on the southern ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Rain helps crews in Fort McMurray while B.C. cracks down on open burning
By The Canadian Press on May 18th, 2024
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. – Wildfire crews have reported no further growth in the wildfire that continues to burn southwest of Fort McMurray. Alberta Wildfire reports the lack of growth allowed crews to keep working on establishing fireguards overnight. The northeast Alberta city has seen rain in the last few days and Environment Canada forecasts more ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!DNA over decades: A look at how police tracked down a Calgary serial killer
By The Canadian Press on May 17th, 2024
CALGARY – The bodies of four girls and women were found outside Calgary in 1976 and 1977. For nearly 50 years, their killings were unsolved. On Friday, RCMP identified Gary Allen Srery, an American sex offender, as the killer. He died in an Idaho prison in 2011. Here’s a look at the police investigation: Feb. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mounties say U.S. sex offender killed four girls, women in Calgary in the 1970s
By Rob Drinkwater, The Canadian Press on May 17th, 2024
EDMONTON – An American sex offender, who died more than a decade ago in prison, killed four women and girls in Calgary in the 1970s – and there may be more victims, RCMP announced Friday. Gary Allen Srery was serving a life sentence for sexual assault when he died of natural causes in an Idaho ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa rejects Toronto’s request to decriminalize drug possession
By The Canadian Press on May 17th, 2024
OTTAWA – Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks has rejected Toronto’s request to decriminalize the possession of controlled drugs, citing concerns about public safety. The decision was announced Friday evening before the long weekend, after weeks of immense political pressure from the opposition Conservatives and the Ontario government to refuse Toronto’s request The proposal called for decriminalization ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Ottawa rejects Toronto request to decriminalize drug possession
By The Canadian Press on May 17th, 2024
OTTAWA – Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks has rejected Toronto’s request to decriminalize the possession of controlled drugs, citing concerns about public safety. More coming... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hard-working crews, rain keep fire from Fort McMurray, Alta., as homes burn in B.C.
By Bob Weber, The Canadian Press on May 17th, 2024
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. – Every day since a wildfire began menacing the city of Fort McMurray, Alta., grimy, exhausted firefighters have been spilling out of helicopters at the end of another one of the toughest shifts around. Hard, manual labour? “Yes,” said Gavin Hojka, incident commander in charge of 172 wildland firefighters. “Very.” There is ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!McGill seeking new injunction to dismantle pro-Palestinian encampment on campus
By The Canadian Press on May 17th, 2024
MONTREAL – McGill University says it’s going to court again to dismantle the pro-Palestinian encampment that has been set up on its downtown Montreal campus since late April. Earlier this week McGill failed to convince a Superior Court judge that the situation at the encampment was sufficiently urgent to justify a provisional injunction. The university ... Read More »
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