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B.C. premier suspects Ottawa holding on to information about foreign interference
By The Canadian Press on September 22nd, 2023
VANCOUVER – British Columbia Premier David Eby says he “strongly” suspects that the federal government is holding back information that could help the province protect its residents with connections to India from foreign interference. Eby says Public Safety MinisterDominic LeBlanc has reached out, saying Ottawa wants to make sure the province has the details it ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!How does India’s visa office suspension affect Canadian travellers?
By Sammy Hudes, The Canadian Press on September 22nd, 2023
TORONTO – The suspension of Indian visa services for Canadians this week has prompted uncertainty among many who had hoped to travel to India in the near future. The news came Thursday as India’s visa processing centre in Canada halted services for Canadian citizens, with India saying it anticipates Ottawa will reduce its diplomatic presence ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta NDP promises to axe proposed plan to quit CPP if it wins next election
By Dean Bennett, The Canadian Press on September 22nd, 2023
EDMONTON – Alberta’s long road to quitting the Canada Pension Plan would run smack into the scheduled 2027 provincial election, with Opposition New Democrats promising to kill the idea if they win. Opposition finance critic Samir Kayande says an NDP government would cancel the plan at that late date as a last resort, regardless of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. RCMP officer was getting chest compressions, another had leg wound: witness
By The Canadian Press on September 22nd, 2023
COQUITLAM, B.C. – At least two RCMP officers have been injured in what is being described as a critical incident in the Metro Vancouver city of Coquitlam. Carley Hodges says she saw one officer being taken out of a building on a stretcher while getting chest compressions, and a second officer was bleeding from the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Yukon ‘trying to understand the path forward’ following India trade mission
By The Canadian Press on September 22nd, 2023
WHITEHORSE – Yukon’s premier says meetings in India aimed at attracting more workers to the territory went very well, but the path forward is murky after the prime minister suggested India was involved in the death of a B.C. activist. Ranj Pillai says he was preparing for a last day of meetings in India as ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police arrest two more people following killing of eight-year-old girl in Alberta
By The Canadian Press on September 22nd, 2023
EDMONTON – Police in Edmonton have charged two more people following the killing of an eight-year-old girl whose remains were found on a First Nation south of the provincial capital. Officers responded on April 24 to a welfare call about the girl at an Edmonton home but were unable to locate her. Her remains were ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: One B.C. RCMP officer on stretcher, another had bleeding leg: witness
By The Canadian Press on September 22nd, 2023
COQUITLAM, B.C. – At least two RCMP officers have been injured in what is being described as a critical incident in the Metro Vancouver city of Coquitlam. Carley Hodges says she saw one officer being taken out of a building on a stretcher while getting chest compressions, and a second officer was bleeding from the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police injured in ‘moments of chaos’: Coquitlam, B.C. mayor
By The Canadian Press on September 22nd, 2023
COQUITLAM, B.C. – Police officers have been injured amid what the mayor of Coquitlam, B.C., says were moments of chaos in his city’s downtown core. Richard Stewart couldn’t share details of the officers’ injuries, but said he had been briefed on the situation along with Premier David Eby and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth. “This kind ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Critical incident involving RCMP, B.C. Premier David Eby says
By The Canadian Press on September 22nd, 2023
COQUITLAM, B.C. – British Columbia Premier David Eby says there’s been a critical incident involving RCMP in the Metro Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam. A witness on the scene says she saw an officer with a bloody leg and a tourniquet above the wound. Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart says officers were injured, but he couldn’t confirm ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Critical incident involving RCMP, B.C. Premier David Eby says
By The Canadian Press on September 22nd, 2023
COQUITLAM, B.C. – British Columbia Premier David Eby says there’s been a critical incident involving RCMP in the Metro Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam. A witness on the scene says she saw an officer with a bloody leg and a tourniquet above the wound. Coquitlam Mounties announced shortly after 11 a.m. that an area several blocks ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Ajuinnata Ukraine’: Gov. Gen. Mary Simon inspires Zelenskyy with Inuktitut word
By The Canadian Press on September 22nd, 2023
OTTAWA – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ended his historic wartime address to Canada’s House of Commons with an Inuktitut message of inspiration and reliance that came from the Governor General herself. Zelenskyy met with Gov. Gen. Mary Simon earlier in the day, when she taught him an Inuktitut word she has shared with world leaders, ... Read More »
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