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Quebec police watchdog investigating after head-on collision on provincial highway
By The Canadian Press on April 9th, 2023
MONTREAL – Quebec’s police watchdog is investigating after a driver travelling the wrong way on a provincial highway while being chased by police struck another vehicle Friday night, killing its occupant. The agency, known as the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes, says police received multiple calls around 10 p.m. that night reporting a vehicle travelling in ... Read More »
1 responseHydro-Québec says some ice storm power outages will not be fixed before Tuesday
By The Canadian Press on April 9th, 2023
MONTREAL – Hydro-Québec says it hopes to reconnect power today to more than 50,000 customers who have been without electricity since last week’s deadly ice storm, but the utility admits some outages will not be resolved before Tuesday. Régis Tellier, Hydro-Québec’s vice-president of operations and maintenance, says around 114,000 clients remain without power, including approximately ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Review of democratic processes needed as ministerial responsibility changes: experts
By Mickey Djuric, The Canadian Press on April 9th, 2023
OTTAWA – One of the longest House of Commons committee filibusters in the last 10 years was the recent marathon attempt by the Liberals to prevent the prime minister’s chief of staff from testifying about foreign interference. Throughout February and March, government members of the procedure and House affairs committee argued that Katie Telford should ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!More than 115,000 still without power in Quebec following deadly ice storm
By The Canadian Press on April 9th, 2023
More than 115,000 customers in Quebec are still without power as Hydro-Québec makes repairs to its energy grid after last week’s deadly ice storm. Most of the remaining outages are in the Montreal region, where 82,000 customers are in the dark. Hydro-Québec says some of the roughly 3,000 remaining outages are in hard-to-access areas or ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!More than 130,000 still without power in Quebec following deadly ice storm
By The Canadian Press on April 9th, 2023
More than 130,000 customers in Quebec are still without power as Hydro-Québec makes repairs to its energy grid after last week’s deadly ice storm. Most of the remaining outages are in the Montreal region. Hydro-Québec says some of the roughly 3,000 remaining outages are in hard-to-access areas or are trickier to resolve, slowing the progress. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘A hell of a choice’: Patients left frustrated amid delays to access assisted dying
By David Fraser, The Canadian Press on April 9th, 2023
OTTAWA – John Scully has been living with a major depressive disorder diagnosis for four decades, and despite trying nearly every treatment known to medicine, from shock therapy to trans-magnetic stimulation, his condition has not improved. The 82-year-old says he wants that suffering to end. He wants to do it legally, painlessly, in a way ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec tragedies put mental health in spotlight, but expert warns of stigma
By Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press on April 9th, 2023
MONTREAL – A series of tragic incidents in Quebec has thrown the issue of the suspects’ mental health into the spotlight, but a Canada Research Chair holder says the debate risks unfairly stigmatizing those with mental illnesses. The killing of a Quebec provincial police officer on March 27 was the latest in a string of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Over 100,000 customers still without power in Quebec after ice storm
By Marisela Amador, The Canadian Press on April 8th, 2023
MONTREAL – The blackout caused by this week’s deadly ice storm saw Quebecers restocking their fridges and eyeing alternative accommodations on Saturday as it stretched into a third full day for thousands of residents. Hydro-Québec said roughly 132,000 customers remained in the dark as of 8 p.m. Saturday after the storm sent ice-laden branches crashing ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta premier gives new version of why she spoke with accused before criminal trial
By Dean Bennett, The Canadian Press on April 8th, 2023
EDMONTON – Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has delivered a new version of why she engaged in a controversial phone call with a Calgary street pastor in which they discussed his upcoming criminal case related to COVID-19 public health measures. Smith told her weekly phone-in radio show Saturday that she took the call from Art Pawlowski ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!DriveBC issues advisory for 150 km stretch of highway between Golden and Revelstoke
By The Canadian Press on April 8th, 2023
VANCOUVER – British Columbia’s transportation ministry says an “intense spring storm” is poised to hit a 150 km stretch of Highway in the southeastern part of the province. DriveBC issued a travel advisory Saturday morning for a portion of Highway 1 running between Golden and Revelstoke. It says the storm is expected to peak on ... Read More »
1 responseSigns calling for police to search landfills taped to Winnipeg police headquarters
By The Canadian Press on April 8th, 2023
WINNIPEG – Protesters attending a rally honouring an Indigenous woman whose remains were recovered at a landfill taped their protest signs to the windows of the Winnipeg Police Service headquarters, demanding officials investigate the death further and search the city’s dumps for bodies of other missing women. The Friday afternoon event in memory of Linda ... Read More »
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