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Evacuation order downgraded to alert for wildfire near Chetwynd, B.C.
By The Canadian Press on April 25th, 2024
CHETWYND, B.C. – The Peace River Regional District has rescinded an evacuation order issued last night in response to an out-of-control wildfire in northeastern British Columbia. An update posted to the district’s website says the order has been downgraded to an evacuation alert, and residents in the area near Chetwynd have been told to be ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Two 14-year-olds in Halifax charged with second-degree murder
By The Canadian Press on April 25th, 2024
HALIFAX – Police have charged two 14-year-olds with second-degree murder following the death this week in Halifax of 16-year-old Ahmad Maher Al Marrach. Halifax Regional Police issued a statement today saying the accused were arrested late Wednesday in the Sackville area, north of Halifax. They are scheduled to appear in Halifax youth court on Friday. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Top court to examine COVID-related entry limits imposed by Newfoundland and Labrador
By The Canadian Press on April 25th, 2024
OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada will weigh the constitutionality of a pandemic-related restriction that curbed travel for public-health reasons. The top court has agreed to hear arguments about a 2020 order from Newfoundland and Labrador’s chief medical officer that limited the circumstances in which non-residents could enter the province. Nova Scotia resident Kimberley ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada sanctions Iran defence minister, others after missile attack on Israel
By The Canadian Press on April 25th, 2024
OTTAWA – Canada is targeting Iran’s defence minister as part of a new round of sanctions imposed after the country’s retaliatory attack on Israel earlier this month. The sanctions affect two institutions and two military leaders, and come a week after Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said Canada would target more Iranians. Iranian Defence Minister ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Conservatives, NDP demand Ottawa protect Canadians’ jobs at new EV plants
By The Canadian Press on April 25th, 2024
OTTAWA – Federal Conservatives and New Democrats are demanding assurances from Ottawa that local jobs will be protected at new electric-vehicle plants. Canada’s Building Trades Union says Canadian workers are being sidelined in favour of foreign workers at the NextStar battery plant in Windsor, Ont., owned by Stellantis and LG Energy Solution. Both Stellantis and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Wildfire triggers evacuations, state of local emergency near Chetwynd, B.C.
By The Canadian Press on April 25th, 2024
CHETWYND, B.C. – An out-of-control wildfire in northeastern British Columbia has triggered the province’s first evacuation of this year’s fire season. The Peace River Regional District declared a state of local emergency and issued an evacuation order for an area near Chetwynd, B.C., last night. The 50-hectare Wildmare Creek fire has also prompted an evacuation ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sentencing hearing for former Saskatchewan Mountie who shot lover in park
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press on April 25th, 2024
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. – A sentencing hearing has started for a former Saskatchewan Mountie who shot and killed his lover. Bernie Herman, who is 55, was convicted in January of manslaughter in the death of 26-year-old Braden Herman. The two men are not related. Braden Herman’s naked body was found in 2021 in a park ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Keep Sarnia plastic plant shut until First Nation says it’s safe: environment groups
By The Canadian Press on April 25th, 2024
OTTAWA – International environmental advocates are calling for a petrochemical plant in southern Ontario to remain closed in light of reports about a benzene leak that continues to affect a neighbouring First Nation community. The letter, signed by more than 100 organizations around the world, calls on Canada’s environment minister to take immediate steps to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Supreme Court to examine mandatory minimum sentences for child pornography offences
By The Canadian Press on April 25th, 2024
OTTAWA – The Supreme Court of Canada will examine the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences for child pornography offences. The top court’s decision to review the matter flows from Quebec court rulings concerning the sentencing of two men. The Quebec Court of Appeal ruled last June the mandatory minimum sentence of one year in prison ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec police say 40 ‘high risk’ sex offenders arrested in provincewide operation
By The Canadian Press on April 25th, 2024
MONTREAL – Quebec provincial police say they’ve arrested 40 sex offenders in an operation involving multiple police forces across the province. The operation targeted people considered a high risk to reoffend. Police looked for offenders who had violated court-imposed conditions and those subject to arrest warrants. They say they found “numerous” people who had violated ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec family reimbursed $10,000 for being shipped wrong body after death in Cuba
By The Canadian Press on April 25th, 2024
MONTREAL – A Montreal-area family that was sent the wrong body after a loved one’s death in Cuba has received a $10,000 reimbursement and an apology from the Caribbean country. Miriam Jarjour says her family was refunded the money paid to repatriate her father’s remains but still doesn’t know what happened to his body. Laval, ... Read More »
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