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Canada hailed for focusing foreign aid on women’s rights amid global backslide
By The Canadian Press on July 24th, 2023
OTTAWA – Canada is being hailed for funding initiatives in developing countries that aim to keep women who care for children or elders from being excluded from the economy. Ottawa announced projects to support people working in the caring economy at a major foreign-aid conference focused on women’s advancement. International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan also ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Groups seek permission to appeal Quebec court ruling maintaining school prayer ban
By The Canadian Press on July 24th, 2023
MONTREAL – A Muslim organization and a civil liberties group are seeking to appeal a court ruling maintaining the province’s ban on visible prayer in public schools. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the National Council of Canadian Muslims, who have launched a court challenge to the rule, are hoping to have the ban suspended ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa reveals conditions for allowing future fossil fuel subsidies
By The Canadian Press on July 24th, 2023
MONTREAL – Ottawa is restricting the conditions under which it will allow subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. The federal government has released guidelines that will limit when public funds are used to support oil and development. Subsidies will be allowed if they support clean energy as well as projects that reduce their greenhouse gas ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Showers for much of B.C., but evacuation orders, alerts grow in drought-ridden south
By The Canadian Press on July 24th, 2023
VANCOUVER – For the first time in more than a month, showers and cooler weather are reaching parched sections of British Columbia, potentially bringing some respite for crews battling hundreds of wildfires. Environment Canada says about 20 millimetres of rain should dampen Vancouver Island and Metro Vancouver. But showers could be spottier around Kamloops, where ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Searchers continue to pump water from Nova Scotia field in search for flood missing
By The Canadian Press on July 24th, 2023
HALIFAX – Workers are continuing to pump water from a flooded field in Nova Scotia that is the focus of a search for four people, including two children, who went missing in a torrent of water Saturday. Abraham Zebian, mayor of West Hants Regional Municipality, was at the site earlier today and says search teams ... Read More »
1 responseIn the news today: Nova Scotia surveys damage from massive weekend rainfall
By The Canadian Press on July 24th, 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… Municipal offices in Halifax closed after weekend rains Municipal offices across Halifax will be closed today as emergency crews work to repair damage caused by extensive rainfalls over the weekend. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Municipal offices across Halifax closed today as crews repair damage from heavy rains
By The Canadian Press on July 24th, 2023
Municipal offices across Halifax will be closed today as emergency crews work to repair damage caused by extensive rainfalls over the weekend. The Halifax Regional Municipality says many areas remain inaccessible, leading to safety concerns for local residents. Rescue efforts are also continuing at a flooded Nova Scotia field where four people, including two children, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Calls for residential school abuse records to be re-examined for names of deceased
By Stephanie Taylor and Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press on July 24th, 2023
OTTAWA – Geraldine Shingoose was shocked when she opened a report probing what should be done to protect potential unmarked grave sites at former residential schools for Indigenous children. Of the thousands of former students who detailed the abuses they suffered to an adjudicator tasked with determining their eligibility for compensation under the historic Indian ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!First Nation spends day in ceremony to launch dig for potential unmarked graves
By The Canadian Press on July 24th, 2023
MINEGOZIIBE ANISHINABE – Before the sun broke through the sky Monday morning, members of a Manitoba First Nation planned to start a critical month-long search in a good way. Spiritual advisers were to lead a pipe ceremony in Minegoziibe Anishinabe while a sacred fire was to be lit near where potential graves of children forced ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘We take pride in what we accomplished’: Canadian veterans remember the Korean War
By Sharif Hassan, The Canadian Press on July 24th, 2023
Bill Black still gets letters and cards thanking him and other Canadian veterans for their service in the Korean War. Quite a few of those notes from South Koreans have arrived lately at the Korea Veterans Association, where Black is president of an Ottawa chapter, as the 70th anniversary of the armistice in that conflict ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Toddler dies after being struck by vehicle at Quebec campsite: provincial police
By The Canadian Press on July 23rd, 2023
SAGUENAY, Que. – Quebec provincial police say a toddler was killed after being struck by a car at a campsite in the Saguenay Lac-Saint-Jean region north of Quebec City. Provincial police say the boy, under the age of two, was struck around 11 a.m. while playing near the side of the road on Sunday at ... Read More »
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