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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelling to Latvia and NATO summit in Lithuania
By The Canadian Press on July 4th, 2023
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will travel to Europe next week for the annual NATO leaders’ summit. The two-day summit in Lithuania starts July 11 and comes as the alliance has agreed to extend the term of Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg by another year. NATO also recently expanded its membership to include Finland and Canada ... Read More »
1 responseJoly concerned for safety of India’s diplomats, calls protest poster ‘unacceptable’
By The Canadian Press on July 4th, 2023
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she is concerned about the safety of India’s diplomats following what she calls an “unacceptable” poster for an upcoming protest near Toronto. The protest is planned in memory of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar who was killed in a shooting in British Columbia in June. A poster ... Read More »
1 responseAlberta weekend tornado that damaged, destroyed homes rated rare, violent twister
By The Canadian Press on July 4th, 2023
EDMONTON – A preliminary report on a weekend tornado in central Alberta says its winds were so violent they picked up a 10-tonne farm combine and tossed it half the length of a football field. The report by the Northern Tornadoes Project rated the twister as a four on the Enhanced Fujita scale of wind-damage ... Read More »
1 responseWekweeti, N.W.T., residents return home as wildfire under control
By The Canadian Press on July 4th, 2023
WEKWEÈTÃŒ, N.W.T. – Residents of a community north of Yellowknife are returning home after the territories’ wildfire agency decided a wildfire burning near the community is now under control. Wekweeti’s more than 100 residents were ordered to evacuate to Yellowknife last Thursday. Three wildfires were burning near the community at the time, the closest within ... Read More »
1 responsePrisons head said process to notify minister of Bernardo transfer was followed: email
By Stephanie Taylor, The Canadian Press on July 4th, 2023
OTTAWA – As confusion reigned about who was informed that notorious serial killer Paul Bernardo was being transferred to a medium-security prison, the head of Canada’s federal prison system wrote to Public Safety Canada officials insisting the appropriate notification protocols had been followed. Emails released to The Canadian Press through the Access to Information Act ... Read More »
1 responseAkwesasne police say body found near island in St-Lawrence River
By The Canadian Press on July 4th, 2023
MONTREAL – Police in Akwesasne Mohawk Territory say a body has been found near a small island in the St. Lawrence River. The body was located about 10 kilometres northeast from Snye, Akwesasne, where the bodies of eight people were found in a marshy area of the river last March. Police have said that those ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Search continues for two people missing after Quebec landslide
By The Canadian Press on July 4th, 2023
SAGUENAY, Que. – The search for two people swept away by a landslide this weekend in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region is continuing today. Rescue teams resumed looking for a man and woman in their 40s missing in Rivière-Éternité, Que., about 260 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. The search operation is focused along a 1.8-kilometre stretch of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Search stretches into third day for two people missing after Quebec landslide
By The Canadian Press on July 4th, 2023
SAGUENAY, Que. – The search for two people swept away by a landslide in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region is stretching into a third day. Rescue teams resumed looking today for a man and woman in their 40s missing in Rivière-Éternité, Que., about 260 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. The search operation is focused along a 1.8-kilometre ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!British Columbia port strike enters day four as talks stall
By The Canadian Press on July 4th, 2023
VANCOUVER – The strike at British Columbia ports enters its fourth day after talks between the two sides stalled on Monday. More than 7,000 workers who load and unload cargo at more than 30 B.C. ports have been on strike since Saturday morning. Representatives for the BC Maritime Employers Association and the International Longshore and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!British Columbia port strike enters day four
By The Canadian Press on July 4th, 2023
VANCOUVER – The strike at British Columbia ports enters its fourth day after talks between the two sides stalled on Monday. More than 7,000 workers who load and unload cargo at more than 30 B.C. ports have been on strike since Saturday morning. Representative for the BC Maritime Employers Association and the International Longshore and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news today: B.C. port strike enters its fourth day
By The Canadian Press on July 4th, 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… B.C. port strike still unresolved The strike at more than 30 British Columbia ports enters its fourth day this morning. Talks between the B.C. Maritime Employers Association and the International Longshore ... Read More »
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