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Private donation helps attract teachers to rural B.C. with $10,000 cash welcome gifts
By Ashley Joannou, The Canadian Press on September 7th, 2023
A rural school district in the British Columbia Interior has filled a shortfall of teachers with help from an anonymous benefactor who donated $200,000 to welcome new educators. At a time when schools across the province are struggling with staff recruitment and retention, the Gold Trail School District offered $10,000 incentives to attract new teachers, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Beginning of blue wave or just a summer fling? Conservatives meet amid polling boost
By Stephanie Taylor, The Canadian Press on September 7th, 2023
OTTAWA – For Emily Brown, it feels pretty good to be Conservative. “It’s quite a time to be a part of this, honestly.” Buoyed by successive polls showing the federal party’s message on the cost of living and housing resonating among a wider, and younger, swath of Canadians, Brown will be among the thousands at ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Freedom Convoy’ organizers’ trial to delve into social media from protest
By Laura Osman, The Canadian Press on September 7th, 2023
OTTAWA – The criminal trial of “Freedom Convoy” organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber is expected to resume today with a deep dive into a mountain of social media evidence police amassed during the protest. Lich and Barber are facing charges related to their role in organizing the protest against COVID-19 health restrictions last year ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police return emotional support rabbit that ran loose in Vancouver SkyTrain station
By The Canadian Press on September 6th, 2023
VANCOUVER – A rabbit that hopped the tracks at a downtown Vancouver transit station was reunited with its owner after efforts by passengers and police. Metro Vancouver Transit Police say the bunny was running loose last Thursday at the Granville SkyTrain station when a passenger picked it up and handed it to officers patrolling the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Man convicted of killing woman in Saskatchewan arrested in B.C., parole suspended
By The Canadian Press on September 6th, 2023
VICTORIA – A man who brutally murdered an Indigenous woman in Saskatoon is back in custody and his parole has been suspended. Victoria police say Kenneth MacKay, who is 49, was arrested Friday but did not provide further details. MacKay was found guilty of first-degree murder for the killing of 21-year-old Crystal Paskemin in 2000. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Shuswap wildfire ruin is revealed as B.C. faces ‘sleeping giant’ of drought
By Brieanna Charlebois, The Canadian Press on September 6th, 2023
SCOTCH CREEK, B.C. – All that stands of the Scotch Creek – Lee Creek firehall in the British Columbia Interior’s Shuswap region is a set of blackened stairs leading to a pile of rubble. The ruins are a stark indication of the indiscriminate power of the Bush Creek East blaze that tore through the region ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!On emotional bus tours, residents return to West Kelowna, B.C., to view the ashes
By Nono Shen, The Canadian Press on September 6th, 2023
Annick deGooyer knew that her family’s home of more than 20 years had been destroyed by the McDougall Creek wildfire that consumed scores of properties in West Kelowna, B.C., about three weeks ago. But she expected more to remain than the pile of “ashy dust” atop the foundations that she and her firefighter husband Rob ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Many can breathe “sigh of relief” as B.C.’s wildfire risk lowers, minister says
By The Canadian Press on September 6th, 2023
The end is near for British Columbia’s fire season, but the provincial emergency management minister says the “sleeping giant” in the season of natural disasters is drought. Bowinn Ma’s comments came as she announced disaster financial assistance is available for local governments and First Nations areas that have been burned by the province’s largest fire ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Court overturns stay granted to Quebec judge in wife’s killing, orders case to resume
By The Canadian Press on September 6th, 2023
MONTREAL – Quebec’s Court of Appeal has overturned a stay of proceedings granted to a retired Quebec judge whose 2012 conviction for fatally shooting his wife was reversed by the federal justice minister. The province’s highest court has ruled that the case against 88-year-old Jacques Delisle should return to Quebec Superior Court, where he was ... Read More »
1 responseRemains of two Innu children exhumed in Quebec as families question who they buried
By The Canadian Press on September 6th, 2023
MONTREAL – The remains of two Innu children have been exhumed from a Quebec cemetery to help give closure to families who have long-standing questions about the identities of the bodies they buried in 1970. A group helping the families of the two children says the exhumations took place last week in Pessamit, Que., around ... Read More »
1 responseRental of B.C. school for Sikh referendum vote is cancelled by district
By The Canadian Press on September 6th, 2023
SURREY, B.C. – Organizers of a Sikh community referendum on Punjabi independence say they’ve received a “slap in the face” from a British Columbia school district that cancelled their rental of a school to host voting this weekend. The Surrey School District says in a statement that it cancelled the rental of Tamanawis Secondary School ... Read More »
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