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Hydro-Quebec may not see full restoration until Tuesday : In The News for April 10
By The Canadian Press on April 10th, 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 April 10 … What we are watching in Canada … Hydro-Quebec is warning that some of its remaining repairs to lines damaged by last week’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Global Affairs says a Canadian has died in Antigua and Barbuda
By The Canadian Press on April 9th, 2023
Global Affairs Canada says a Canadian has died in Antigua and Barbuda. Willikies Police Station, a local police force, has confirmed with The Canadian Press that the man, who they say was in his late 60s, drowned Saturday after falling from the Devil’s Bridge rock formation. The Caribbean nation’s armed forces says in a statement ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec City police say man, 66, dead after fire, no smoke detector in apartment
By The Canadian Press on April 9th, 2023
Quebec City police say a 66-year-old-man is dead after an apartment fire in the Vieux-Limoilou neighbourhood. Police Sgt. David Poitras says firefighters were called to the two-storey building shortly before 12:30 p.m. He says around 30 firefighters were able to bring the blaze under control in around 20 minutes and limit its spread to the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police search for man who allegedly damaged cenotaph statue outside Surrey museum
By The Canadian Press on April 9th, 2023
SURREY, B.C. – Police in Surrey, B.C. say they’re on the lookout for a man who allegedly dismantled a statue outside the city’s museum in late March. RCMP say they’re hoping the public can help locate the person in a case of alleged mischief to a cenotaph at the Museum of Surrey on 56A Avenue. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!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 »
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