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CP NewsAlert: Wildfire evacuation order lifted for suburb of St. John’s, N.L.
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
ST. JOHN’S — People forced out of their homes by a wildfire near Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest city can now return home. Officials say the evacuation order issued Tuesday for parts of Paradise, N.L., a suburb of St. John’s, is lifted effective immediately. A news release says, however, that residents are still under an evacuation ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Officials hope rain clear heavy smoke from wildfire near Port Alberni, B.C.
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
PORT ALBERNI — Officials on Vancouver Island are hoping rain in the forecast can help clear up the air quality muddied by an out-of-control wildfire. The Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District says wildland firefighters have said the rain may improve air quality locally, but that it’s hard to be certain. The west central region is under an ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Concordia University students launch rocket from northern Quebec
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
MONTREAL — A group of students at Concordia University in Montreal has managed to launch a rocket from a remote site in northern Quebec. Starsailor, a 13-metre liquid-fuel rocket, took off just after 5:30 a.m. this morning. It’s unclear whether the rocket reached space, as it separated earlier than planned less than a minute after ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!China files complaint with World Trade Organization over Canadian steel tariffs
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
OTTAWA — China is taking its dispute with Canada over steel tariffs to the World Trade Organization. Beijing filed a complaint earlier today with the WTO in response to Canadian restrictions on imports that contain steel melted or poured in China. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced last month that he was imposing the 25 per ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada Post and union meeting delayed until next week due to mediator availability
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
OTTAWA — A meeting between Canada Post and the union representing 55,000 postal workers has been delayed until next week due to the availability of federal mediators, the company says. The two sides, which were set to meet Friday, will now meet on Aug. 20. It’s been two weeks since members of the Canadian Union ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news today: Air Canada flight attendants could strike tonight
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Air Canada flight attendants could strike tonight It’s the final day before a potential work stoppage could ground all Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge flights. More than 10,000 flight attendants are poised to walk off the job ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Wildfires in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia have residents on high alert
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
ST. JOHN’S — Thousands are out of their homes, and many more are on alert to evacuate as wildfires continue to rage across Atlantic Canada. Officials in Newfoundland and Labrador have expanded an evacuation alert along the Bay De Verde Peninsula as the Kingston wildfire burns nearby. The community of Job’s Cove in Newfoundland is ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Effort underway to get Afghan women at risk of deportation to University of Regina
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
Parissa Ahmadi says the least worst thing that could happen if she doesn’t make it to Saskatchewan this summer, and is deported to Afghanistan, is that she’s jailed and tortured. The worst thing — she doesn’t like thinking about too much. “It’s not a good thing,” the recent graduate of the American University of Afghanistan’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa voices its resolve for Ukraine as Trump-Putin talks underway in Alaska
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government says Canada’s support for Ukraine is resolute ahead of talks today between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump has arranged the talks in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss a possible land swap between territories held by Ukraine and those claimed by Russia, despite not including ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Court to hear from family, community of victim of Winnipeg serial killer
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
WINNIPEG — The parents of a First Nations woman who died at the hands of a Winnipeg serial killer are set to give victim impact statements at a special court hearing today. Manitoba Court of King’s Bench agreed to the hearing for the family and community of Ashlee Shingoose, a year after Jeremy Skibicki was ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Great relief’: After uncertainty, Canadian Harvard students expect to return this fall
By Canadian Press on August 15th, 2025
TORONTO — Thomas Mete says he is feeling “great relief” now that he knows he’ll be returning to Harvard University to finish the last year of his degree, after a tumultuous summer of limbo. “I can’t wait to be back in Cambridge,” the fourth-year economics student said in an interview from Montreal this week. Mete ... Read More »
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