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Ukrainians with Canadian visas face agonizing decisions about the future
By Laura Osman, The Canadian Press on March 31st, 2024
OTTAWA – It was 4:40 in the morning when bombs started to drop on Lilyia Dvornichenko’s hometown of Kharkiv in Ukraine, just an hour from the Russian border. Her jaw is set and her tone is matter-of-fact as she describes the first terrifying moments two years ago when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of her ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa police seeking witnesses in a collision between a motor vehicle and OC Transpo
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2024
Ottawa police are seeking witnesses to a serious collision that happened on the afternoon of March 30. Officers were called near the intersection of Blohm Drive and Hunterswood Crescent in the city’s south end in response to a collision between a motor vehicle and OC Transpo Bus. The police report says a person is critically ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Low tide pauses efforts to save B.C. orca while rescuers plan next steps
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2024
ZEBALLOS, B.C. – Low tide kept rescuers trying to save an orphaned whale calf stranded near a remote British Columbia community off the waters on Saturday, but Fisheries and Oceans Canada says officials are re-evaluating techniques that have been used so far while deciding what’s next. An email from departmental Spokeswoman Leri Davies says the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian Armed Forces deployed to Jamaica to help train CARICOM troops
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2024
OTTAWA – A few dozen Canadian Armed Forces members have been deployed to Jamaica to train Caribbean Community troops for a mission intended to restore order in Haiti. A news release from the Department of National Defence says 70 Canadian Forces members were deployed on Friday at the request of the Jamaican government. It says ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec police investigating overnight fire at shrimp processing plant in Matane
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2024
MATANE, Que. – Quebec provincial police have taken over an investigation into an overnight fire at a shrimp processing plant in the town of Matane, roughly 350 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. The fire at the Fruits de mer de l’Est du Québec factory forced some local residents out of their homes for several hours ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Halifax RCMP are searching for a suspect in a Shoppers Drug Mart robbery
By The Canadian Press on March 30th, 2024
Halifax Regional Police are investigating a robbery that happened Friday night at the Shoppers Drug Mart in the city’s Fairview neighbourhood. Officers say they responded to a report along Joseph Howe Drive, with the call describing a woman in her late 20s exiting a store without paying for items. When security staff at the shoppers ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Fisheries officials monitoring orphaned orca calf in lagoon off Vancouver Island
By The Canadian Press on March 29th, 2024
ZEBALLOS, B.C. – An official with Fisheries and Oceans Canada says rescue efforts to get an orphaned orca calf out of a lagoon off Vancouver Island have been hampered by challenging tides. Paul Cottrell, the pacific marine mammal coordinator with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, says efforts to coax the animal out of the lagoon on ... Read More »
1 responseNiagara region declares state of emergency to prepare for influx of eclipse viewers
By The Canadian Press on March 29th, 2024
OTTAWA – Ontario’s Niagara Region has declared a state of emergency as it prepares to welcome up to a million visitors for the solar eclipse in early April. The total solar eclipse on April 8 will be the first to touch the province since 1979, and Niagara Falls was declared by National Geographic to be ... Read More »
1 responseCanada’s coal exports up again in 2023 as government’s promised ban elusive
By Mia Rabson, The Canadian Press on March 29th, 2024
OTTAWA – Canadian exports of thermal coal increased another seven per cent last year, reaching the highest level in almost a decade. The boom in exports of the kind of coal burned to make electricity comes as Canada leads a charge to end the use of coal as a source of power worldwide. The Liberals ... Read More »
1 responseEndangered North Atlantic right whales lose three of 19 calves this season
By The Canadian Press on March 29th, 2024
FREDERICTON – An international environmental organization says it is concerning that at least three of the 19 North Atlantic right whale calves born this season have died this year. Oceana Canada campaign director Kim Elmslie says there should be between 25 and 30 new calves so far, noting the total local whale population of 360 ... Read More »
1 responseNigerian family in Montreal facing imminent deportation pleads to stay
By The Canadian Press on March 29th, 2024
MONTREAL – Community groups gathered outside the federal immigration minister’s office in Montreal this morning to demand a stop to next month’s planned deportation of a local family originally from Nigeria. Deborah Adegboye says she, her husband and first child were fleeing religious persecution in their home country when they entered Canada as asylum-seekers via ... Read More »
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