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CP NewsAlert: At least one dead after fire at Canada’s high commission in Nigeria
By The Canadian Press on November 6th, 2023
OTTAWA – At least one person is dead after a fire Monday at Canada’s high commission in Nigeria, according to local fire officials. More coming... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trudeau confirms appointment of Alberta judge Mary Moreau to Supreme Court of Canada
By The Canadian Press on November 6th, 2023
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed the appointment of Mary Moreau to the Supreme Court of Canada after nominating her for the post last month. Moreau, who was chief justice of the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta, fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Russell Brown. Before her appointment to the Alberta ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadians wait to flee Gaza Strip as border crossing reopens for approved evacuees
By The Canadian Press on November 6th, 2023
Canadians trapped in the Gaza Strip who were previously told they could be allowed out over the weekend will have to wait longer to escape the besieged Palestinian territory. The General Authority for Border Crossings in Gaza says the Rafah border crossing into Egypt reopened on Monday to allow foreigners whose names were on approved ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news today: Canadians in Gaza still waiting to cross into Egypt
By The Canadian Press on November 6th, 2023
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today… No update on border crossing for Canadians in Gaza Canadians trapped in the Gaza Strip who were previously told they could be allowed out over the weekend will have to wait ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!No information on status of border crossing as Canadians wait to flee Gaza
By The Canadian Press on November 6th, 2023
Canadians trapped in the Gaza Strip who were previously told they could be allowed out over the weekend will have to wait longer for escape from the besieged Palestinian territory. The Rafah border crossing into Egypt remained closed over the weekend amid escalating attacks from Israel and Global Affairs Canada says it has no information ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hundreds of thousands of Quebec public sector workers on strike today
By Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press on November 6th, 2023
MONTREAL – Hundreds of thousands of Quebec public sector workers are off the job today in the first of a series of one-day strikes. Schools, health care facilities and social services will all be disrupted as four unions representing a “common front” of some 420,000 workers go on strike to protest the province’s latest contract ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Health care, energy costs expected to be focus of premiers meeting in Halifax
By The Canadian Press on November 6th, 2023
HALIFAX – Health care and the effect of carbon pricing measures on the rising cost of living across Canada are slated to take centre stage at today’s meeting of the country’s premiers and territorial leaders in Halifax. Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says health care is the main formal agenda item at the latest Council ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Vancouver man’s family in Gaza ponders whether to stay together so they die together
By Hina Alam, The Canadian Press on November 6th, 2023
Bombs had scarcely started falling on the Gaza Strip last month when Omar Mansour’s family realized they had a crucial question to resolve: would it be better to face death together or apart? One day after Hamas fighters stormed into Israel – slaughtering at least 1,400 people, seizing roughly 240 hostages and triggering a war ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadians stuck in Gaza tentatively set to leave as early as Tuesday
By Laura Osman and Lyndsay Armstrong, The Canadian Press on November 5th, 2023
Dalia Salim has spent the last few days desperately trying to pass messages on to her father from the Canadian government about when he will be able to escape the besieged Gaza Strip. As far as she knows, her 66-year-old father Sami has been sleeping in a tent on a vacant lot in the southern ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sex offender in 2011 child abduction in B.C. wanted Canada-wide
By Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press on November 5th, 2023
British Columbia’s premier says he is “deeply disturbed” that a high-risk sex offender who abducted a three-year-old boy in 2011 is on the loose after failing to return to his halfway house in Vancouver. Police say 58-year-old Randall Hopley is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant and was last seen Saturday afternoon. Police say Hopley has ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Premiers to focus on energy costs, health care at Halifax meeting of leaders
By Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press on November 5th, 2023
The effect of carbon pricing measures on the rising cost of living across Canada is slated to take centre stage at this week’s meeting of the country’s premiers and territorial leaders in Halifax. That focus comes after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last month a three-year pause on carbon pricing for home fuel oil, along ... Read More »
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