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CP NewsAlert: Supreme Court of Canada upholds Safe Third Country Agreement
By The Canadian Press on June 16th, 2023
OTTAWA – Canada’s highest court has deemed the pact between Canada and the United States to control the flow of asylum seekers across the shared border to be constitutional. More coming... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In The News for June 16 : Manitoba grieving after deadly highway crash kills 15
By The Canadian Press on June 16th, 2023
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of June 16 … What we are watching in Canada … Residents in Dauphin, Man., are anxiously waiting for word on the identities of 15 people ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!RCMP working to confirm identities of 15 killed on bus heading to Manitoba casino
By The Canadian Press on June 16th, 2023
CARBERRY, Man. – Residents in Dauphin, Man., are anxiously waiting for word on the identities of 15 people killed in a fiery bus crash. Mounties say the group of mostly seniors was heading to a casino when the bus they were on crashed with a semi-trailer near the town of Carberry, west of Winnipeg. Ten ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Thousands allowed back home, but officials say wildfires still leaving many displaced
By The Canadian Press on June 16th, 2023
People in parts of Alberta and British Columbia are returning home after wildfire evacuation orders were lifted Thursday. Thanks to recent rain and favourable winds, roughly 2,000 residents from Tumbler Ridge, B.C., were allowed to return home. An evacuation order was also lifted for the town of Edson, Alta., and surrounding area, allowing more than ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Supreme Court to rule on constitutionality of Safe Third Country Agreement
By Laura Osman, The Canadian Press on June 16th, 2023
OTTAWA – Canada’s top court will deliver the final word Friday on whether the pact between Canada and the United States to control the flow of asylum seekers violates their fundamental rights. The Safe Third Country Agreement, which came into effect in 2004, recognizes Canada and the U.S. as safe places for potential refugees to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Hero to me’: Kyiv’s memory wall a reminder of losses in Ukraine-Russian conflicts
By Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press on June 16th, 2023
KYIV, Ukraine – Yuri Pisarenko reaches high up on the Memory Wall of the Fallen Defenders of Ukraine, pulls down a faded portrait of his grandson and reverently puts an identical photo in its place. Timofy Pisarenko, 19, was killed by a landmine a day after Easter. The wall, created in 2014, has been updated ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Manitoba bus crash brings focus on safety of at-grade intersections in Canada
By Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press on June 15th, 2023
The deadly crash in Manitoba between a bus full of seniors and a semi has brought renewed attention on the safety of numerous so-called at-grade intersections on Canadian highways. BC Trucking Association CEO Dave Earle says most drivers in urban areas where highway intersections have overpasses or traffic lights have no idea about the prevalence ... Read More »
1 responseVancouver Police Board accepts department’s report on Myles Gray inquest
By Brenna Owen, The Canadian Press on June 15th, 2023
VANCOUVER – The Vancouver Police Department is committed to adopting the recommendations from a coroner’s inquest into the beating death of Myles Gray, it says in a report submitted to its board, but advocates say key concerns remain unaddressed. In a statement released by Pivot Legal Society, the policy director for the B.C. Civil Liberties ... Read More »
1 responseBus carrying seniors to casino crashes with semi in Manitoba; 15 dead and 10 injured
By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press on June 15th, 2023
CARBERRY, Man. – A day trip to the casino for a busload of seniors turned to devastation and unimaginable loss Thursday after a fiery crash with a semi on the Trans-Canada Highway west of Winnipeg. Police said 15 people were killed and 10 more were sent to hospital. Witnesses recounted rescue workers frantically pulling people ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A list of mass casualty bus and van crashes on Canadian highways
By Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press on June 15th, 2023
RCMP say 15 people died and 10 others were taken to hospital on Thursday after a bus collided with a semi-truck near Carberry, Man. Little information was immediately available about the deceased, but RCMP say they believe many of the people on the bus were seniors. Here’s a list of some other serious crashes involving ... Read More »
1 responseReaction to highway crash that killed 15 in Manitoba
By The Canadian Press on June 15th, 2023
CARBERRY, Man. – RCMP say 15 people are dead and 10 are in hospital after a bus carrying people from Dauphin, Man., many of them seniors, collided with a semi truck. Here is some of the reaction: “I’m sending my deepest condolences to those who lost loved ones today, and I’m keeping the injured in ... Read More »
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