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Jobs Minister Hajdu calls on union, airline to return to table as deadline looms
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
OTTAWA — Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu is urging Air Canada and the union representing its flight attendants to get back to the negotiating table, a call that comes as the deadline for a strike grows nearer by the hour. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Hajdu says it’s “critical” that the two parties “return ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Screaming into silence’: Parents of serial killer victim address special hearing
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
WINNIPEG — The father of a First Nations woman who died at the hands of a Winnipeg serial killer told a special court hearing his family was left to “grieve in pieces” for three years before she was identified. The family and community of Ashlee Shingoose presented victim impact statements Friday during the hearing in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. legislator shocked by American senator’s ‘nonsense’ pitch to join U.S.
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
VICTORIA — A British Columbia legislator says he went from “disappointed” to “enraged” after receiving a pitch from a Republican state senator for Canada’s four western provinces to join the United States. Brennan Day, with the Opposition B.C. Conservative Party, says his office had to first confirm the authenticity of the “nonsense” letter from Maine ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘The same country’: Canada often seen as extension of U.S., Indo-Pacific experts say
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
OTTAWA — Ottawa’s Indo-Pacific strategy has yet to give Canada adequate visibility or distinguish it from the U.S. in the region, experts have told researchers commissioned by the federal government. The Liberals launched the strategy in late 2022 to make Canada a partner of choice for some of the fastest-growing economies on the planet. In ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Those in Bamfield, B.C., support each other as wildfire cuts power, main road access
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
Mark Lawrence says residents of Bamfield, B.C., are used to relying on their generators for extended periods, and though he wishes it was easier to take a hot shower these days, the small community is coming together to support each other after a wildfire severed the community’s power and main road access. “I know a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Photo Gallery: Atlantic wildfires continue to burn
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
People forced from their homes by a wildfire near Newfoundland and Labrador’s capital city have been cleared to return home. Residents are still under an evacuation alert, which requires them to remain prepared to leave their homes again on a moment’s notice. Meanwhile, in New Brunswick Natural Resources Minister John Herron says that province’s largest ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. RCMP team helps rescue 12 stranded kayakers near U.S. border
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
SURREY — An RCMP team patrolling the waters near the border between Canada and the United States helped rescue a group of 12 kayakers, including six children. British Columbia RCMP says in a release that a team conducting patrols as part of the Canada-U.S. Shiprider program were alerted Thursday by a U.S. Coast Guard broadcast. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!As memories fade, Canadians mark 80 years since the end of the Second World War
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
OTTAWA — Relatives of war veterans gathered at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Friday to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender and the official end of the Second World War. Sweat poured down the faces of those assembled in the August midday heat as the Canadian Armed Forces bugler performed the Last ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Evacuation order lifted for St. John’s suburb; wildfire destroys Newfoundland school
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
ST. JOHN’S — There was a very happy chicken in a suburb of St. John’s, N.L., on Friday after residents who had been forced to leave their homes because of a wildfire were finally cleared to return. Hazel, a four-year-old red sex-link chicken, belongs to Susan Barrett, who was evacuated from her Paradise, N.L., home ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!First Nation in B.C. says 41 more graves found by penetrating radar at school site
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
SECHELT — The shishalh First Nation says 41 “additional unmarked graves” have been found as a result of a search with ground-penetrating radar on the site of a former residential school. The nation on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast says a team has been scanning the area around the St. Augustine’s Residential School site for the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. nurse gets suspension, fines for comments about transgender people
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
VANCOUVER — A British Columbia nurse has been suspended and fined nearly $94,000 for making “discriminatory and derogatory statements” about transgender people. The B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives says a disciplinary panel has issued a decision against Amy Hamm, suspending her for one month, while also ordering her to pay the college costs and ... Read More »
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