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WestJet, Air Canada adjust prices and schedules amid Yellowknife evacuation efforts
By The Canadian Press on August 17th, 2023
Airlines are adjusting prices and adding capacity to help with evacuation efforts in Yellowknife. WestJet and Air Canada both said they are taking steps to avoid elevated prices, adding extra flights and swapping in bigger planes amid the rapidly unfolding situation up north. Residents of Yellowknife and two nearby First Nations have been ordered out ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pacific Salmon Commission raises forecast for B.C. Fraser River pink salmon run
By The Canadian Press on August 17th, 2023
VICTORIA – The run of pink salmon in British Columbia’s Fraser River is exceeding expectations this summer. The Pacific Salmon Commission is increasing its projections of pink salmon returns to possibly 11.6 million, up from an estimate of between 6.1 million and 8.6 million fish. The commission, which was formed by the governments of Canada ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!WestJet adjusts prices, flight schedule amid Yellowknife evacuation efforts
By The Canadian Press on August 17th, 2023
WestJet says it’s adjusting prices and adding capacity to help with evacuation efforts in Yellowknife. Residents of the city and two nearby First Nations have been ordered out by noon Friday while crews fight fires that have already forced thousands to evacuate. The airline says it’s added an extra recovery flight scheduled for Thursday between ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec woman sentenced to 22 years for sending poisoned letters to Trump, officials
By James McCarten, The Canadian Press on August 17th, 2023
WASHINGTON – A self-described “activist” from Quebec who pleaded guilty to sending Donald Trump a poison-laced letter at the height of the former president’s ill-fated 2020 re-election effort has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison. Pascale Ferrier, 56, agreed to the 21-year, 10-month sentence as part of a plea agreement back in January, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Convoys, airport lineups: Yellowknife residents leave city as fire creeps closer
By The Canadian Press on August 17th, 2023
YELLOWKNIFE – Thousands of Yellowknife residents joined road convoys and stood with packed bags in long, snaking lines at the airport Thursday to flee a looming wildfire approaching the capital of the Northwest Territories. The 20,000 residents of the city and two nearby First Nations have been ordered to be out by noon Friday while ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Communities spring into action to help N.W.T. wildfire evacuees
By The Canadian Press on August 17th, 2023
CALGARY – Communities receiving those fleeing the Northwest Territories wildfires are springing into action to help. Calgary pet charity Parachutes for Pets says it’s gathering supplies for animals and has reached out to boarding kennels to see whether some can offer space. Melissa David, who runs the charity, says some evacuees may not have taken ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Montreal Chinatown residents urge city to act against crime, drug use
By The Canadian Press on August 17th, 2023
MONTREAL – Residents of Montreal’s Chinatown are urging the city to act against what they describe as rising crime and drug use in their neighbourhood. A group of residents and merchants told a news conference today they’re being exposed to increasing acts of vandalism, harassment, violence and open air drug use. They mostly blame a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Five things to know about the wildfire situation in the Northwest Territories
By Brittany Hobson, The Canadian Press on August 17th, 2023
YELLOWKNIFE – Wildfires have ripped through tens of thousands of square kilometres in the Northwest Territories, forcing the government to declare a state of emergency and residents of its capital city to flee. Here are five things to know about the situation: Extreme fire danger The Northwest Territories has been grappling with 236 wildfires that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada mulling ‘game plan’ if U.S. takes far-right, authoritarian shift: Joly
By The Canadian Press on August 17th, 2023
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada has been considering a “game plan” for how it would respond if the United States takes a far-right, authoritarian shift after next year’s presidential elections. Joly said in French during an interview with a Montreal radio station Wednesday that Canada must “prepare several scenarios” because of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Justice minister says Canada remains ‘open’ to criminalizing coercive control
By The Canadian Press on August 17th, 2023
OTTAWA – Canada’s federal justice minister says gender-based violence is an “epidemic” and Ottawa remains open to criminalizing a pattern of behaviour known as coercive control. Arif Virani made the comments in a recent letter to Ontario’s chief coroner, in which he provided the Liberal government’s response to a series of recommendations that came from ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Human activity and climate change cause cascading effects for Arctic ecosystem
By Hina Alam, The Canadian Press on August 17th, 2023
It doesn’t end up on dinner plates and it lacks the popular appeal of whales and dolphins, but scientists warn that a small fish that is critical to Arctic marine life could be in trouble from climate change and human activity. Maxime Geoffroy, a researcher at the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of ... Read More »
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