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Prime Minister Mark Carney takes stage at TIFF’s opening night, honours John Candy
By Canadian Press on September 4th, 2025
TORONTO — Prime Minister Mark Carney called the Toronto International Film Festival “a testament to part of what makes Canada unique” as he helped kick off its 50th edition on Thursday. Carney took the stage to applause ahead of the screening of opening-night film “John Candy: I Like Me,” a documentary celebrating the late Canadian ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!BC Wildfire Service says civilian drone hit firefighting plane
By Canadian Press on September 4th, 2025
KAMLOOPS — The BC Wildfire Service says police are investigating after one of its firefighting aircraft was struck by a civilian drone that was being illegally flown in restricted airspace. It says the incident on Tuesday evening involved a bird dog plane that directs airtankers and other aircraft, and occurred during operations against a blaze ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Officials, Indigenous leaders respond to mass stabbing on Manitoba First Nation
By Canadian Press on September 4th, 2025
WINNIPEG — A man killed his sister and wounded several others in a mass stabbing on the Hollow Water First Nation in Manitoba on Thursday. RCMP said Tyrone Simard, 26, then fled in a stolen vehicle and crashed with an officer as she was responding to the attack. Simard died in the crash and the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Timeline of mass stabbing on Manitoba First Nation, attacker dies in crash
By Canadian Press on September 4th, 2025
WINNIPEG — RCMP say a man killed his sister and wounded several others Thursday in a stabbing rampage on a Manitoba First Nation. He then fled and was killed in a highway crash with a Mountie who was responding to the attack at Hollow Water First Nation. Here’s a timeline provided by police: 3:44 a.m. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Sim says Vancouver is ‘begging’ B.C. for mental health supports after festival attack
By Canadian Press on September 4th, 2025
VANCOUVER — Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says no city can completely eliminate all risks to public safety and steps to protect people won’t be effective without addressing mental health challenges, which he described as the “root cause” of many concerns. Sim says the city is “begging” the province to take action and ensure people suffering ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Prime Minister Mark Carney to speak at opening night of Toronto International Film Festival
By Canadian Press on September 4th, 2025
TORONTO — Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to speak tonight at the opening of the 50th Toronto International Film Festival. He’ll be making remarks ahead of a screening of “John Candy: I Like Me,” a documentary celebrating the late Canadian comedian. Carney has been in Toronto this week for a Liberal cabinet retreat before ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Two Canadians likely dead after Lisbon streetcar crash, police say
By Canadian Press on September 4th, 2025
OTTAWA — Local police say there’s a “high possibility” that two Canadians are dead after a popular 19th-century streetcar crashed in Portugal’s capital on Wednesday, The Associated Press reports. The AP has reported that the Portugal’s attorney general’s office said eight victims have been identified so far: five Portuguese, two South Koreans and a Swiss ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Suspect in deadly mass stabbing on Manitoba First Nation killed in crash with Mountie
By Canadian Press on September 4th, 2025
WINNIPEG — A brother and sister are dead and several others injured, including a Mountie, after a mass stabbing Thursday on a small, tight-knit First Nation northeast of Winnipeg. “I ask the community to pray and support one another,” Hollow Water First Nation Chief Larry Barker said at a news conference at RCMP regional headquarters ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Two Canadians likely dead in Lisbon streetcar crash, police say
By Canadian Press on September 4th, 2025
OTTAWA — Local police say there’s a “high possibility” that two Canadians are dead after a popular 19th-century streetcar crashed in Portugal’s capital on Wednesday, The Associated Press reports. More coming. Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Eby says temporary foreign worker program should be scrapped or reformed
By Canadian Press on September 4th, 2025
VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier David Eby said the temporary foreign worker program should “be cancelled or significantly reformed” because the province can’t have an immigration system that takes young people’s jobs, while filling up homeless shelters and food banks. Eby said Thursday that one reason the province is facing “significant fiscal headwinds” is because ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Bondi says human smuggling across the border with Canada is getting worse
By Canadian Press on September 4th, 2025
TAMPA — U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday human smuggling across the border with Canada is getting worse — and that traffickers are looking north following the Trump administration’s crackdown at the border with Mexico. “The northern border, it always has been, but it’s gotten much worse, much more prevalent because … it’s a ... Read More »
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