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In The News for March 27 : A final goodbye to two fallen Edmonton police officers
By The Canadian Press on March 27th, 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 March 27 … What we are watching in Canada … A regimental funeral is set to be held today for two Edmonton police officers who ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Funeral for two Edmonton police officers shot and killed responding to family dispute
By The Canadian Press on March 27th, 2023
EDMONTON – A regimental funeral is set to be held today for two Edmonton police officers who were shot and killed by a 16-year-old boy. Police say a 2 1/2-kilometre procession from the Alberta legislature to Rogers Place in Edmonton’s downtown is scheduled to begin just before noon. The funeral for Const. Travis Jordan, who ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada argues court misconstrued Charter in directing feds to bring men in Syria home
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press on March 27th, 2023
OTTAWA – The Canadian government says a federal judge misinterpreted the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in directing officials to secure the release of four men from detention in northeastern Syria. Government lawyers are set to stress that point in the Federal Court of Appeal today as they seek to overturn a January ruling by ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sask. judge to decide on bail for sisters who say they were wrongfully convicted
By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press on March 27th, 2023
YORKTON, Sask. – A Saskatchewan judge is set to deliver his decision on whether to give bail to two sisters who have spent nearly 30 years in prison for what they say are wrongful murder convictions. Odelia and Nerissa Quewezance were convicted of second-degree murder in the 1993 stabbing death of 70-year-old Saskatchewan farmer Anthony ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!N.S. RCMP cancel alert for armed woman, now seek her as a person of interest
By The Canadian Press on March 26th, 2023
INDIAN BROOK, N.S. – Mounties in Sipekne’katik First Nation in central Nova Scotia are seeking a woman who is a person of interest in a firearms complaint, and who they had earlier warned may be “on foot” with a handgun in the community. RCMP in the Mi’kmaq community had issued a public alert for the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Slain officers’ families issue statements thanking public for support
By The Canadian Press on March 26th, 2023
EDMONTON – The families of two Edmonton police officers fatally shot earlier this month have issued statements thanking the public for their support. The statements from the families of Const. Brett Ryan and Const. Travis Jordan, released through the Edmonton Police Service, came on the eve of a regimental funeral for the officers Monday at ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!N.S. RCMP warn public of dangerous woman with handgun in Sipekne’katik First Nation
By The Canadian Press on March 26th, 2023
INDIAN BROOK, N.S. – The Mounties in Sipekne’katik First Nation in central Nova Scotia are warning residents of a dangerous woman “on foot” with a handgun in the community. RCMP in the Mi’kmaq community issued a public alert just after 7 p.m. local time today. The alert says the woman’s name is Shannon Yvonne Hudson ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Military under fire as thousands of troops face lost cost-of-living allowance
By Lee Berthiaume, The Canadian Press on March 26th, 2023
OTTAWA – The Canadian Armed Forces is under fire for its plan to cut thousands of troops off a cost-of-living allowance without much notice. The military announced last week that about 7,700 Armed Forces members will no longer receive the top-up starting in July. The Armed Forces is instead introducing a new housing benefit that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Two-time organ recipient designs Green Shirt Day logo five years after bus crash
By Colette Derworiz, The Canadian Press on March 26th, 2023
Brandy Hehn was a regular in the kidney dialysis unit at the Regina General Hospital when the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash happened five years ago. Sixteen people died and 13 were injured after a transport truck went through a stop sign and into the path of a bus carrying the Saskatchewan junior hockey team ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Nothing to come back to,’ says Ukrainian woman in Canada, her beloved home destroyed
By Laura Osman, The Canadian Press on March 26th, 2023
IRPIN, Ukraine – Oleksandra Verovkina and her son, Danylo, would stroll half a block through the back alley behind their apartment to a large forest. They would walk hand in hand beneath the tall trees, the air filled with the scent of pine resin, until the three-year old lost steam, and then return home. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!P.E.I. Green Party wasn’t ready for election, may lose seats from 2019: experts
By Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press on March 26th, 2023
CHARLOTTETOWN – As the Prince Edward Island election approaches its final week, the Green Party is fighting to hold onto its historic gains from the last provincial vote – a battle some experts say could result in lost seats. Hannah Bell, a Green MLA who decided not to seek re-election, says the party simply wasn’t ... Read More »
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