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Flights to and from Kelowna International Airport (YLW) are cancelled until at least 9 p.m. Monday as crews continue to battle wildfires.
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The Friends of Canadian Broadcasting group is asking people in Canada to stop posting content on Meta's platforms on Aug. 23 and 24.
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NDP Leader Wab Kinew says his party will eliminate the provincial gas tax if it forms the next Manitoba government on Oct. 3.
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YELLOWKNIFE — Defence Minister Bill Blair says another company of soldiers is being deployed to Hay River in the Northwest Territories, which has been evacuated for more than a week due to a threatening wildfire nearby. Blair announced the deployment to the town located on the south shore of Great Slave Lake in a tweet […]
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Here is the second part of the deals of the week from the regent location in Winnipeg. Make sure to check out the first part. Anything ending in 0.97 is a markdown and is store specific.
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Here are the deals from the Regent location in Winnipeg. Deals are mostly the same from store to store, just some variety due to stock or seasonal items. Anything ending in 0.97 is a markdown and is store specific. Make ... Read More »
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YELLOWKNIFE — Northwest Territories Premier Caroline Cochrane was a social worker before entering politics, so when the territory ordered everyone in its capital to leave last week due to encroaching wildfires, she said she checked to make sure homeless people weren’t forgotten. “My heart’s with those people. I’ve worked in that field for over 20 […]
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Matt Kubinchak doesn't know if he'll have a place to live Monday after the city served the owners of his apartment building with an order to vacate by 2 p.m. due to fire-safety issues, including an alarm system that doesn't work, damaged doors and a blocked fire escape.
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In today’s Big Story Podcast, Alberta’s renewable energy sector is one of the province’s great success stories. It’s been growing rapidly, attracting top industry talent and becoming the envy of Canada for its size and innovation. So naturally, the Alberta government has paused all new approvals for renewable projects for six months. Bob Weber is […]
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The central Okanagan is facing weeks without tourism during its peak season after British Columbia's premier imposed bans on travel to wildfire zones.
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Judy Panchenko and her long-time partner Cheryl Cook were sitting at home when Winnipeg police officers came to their door and said their grandson, Peter Panchenko, was dead.
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The Trudeau government’s re-election hopes may depend to a large extent on whether they can recapture the promise of economic security implicit in the “middle class” message that brought the Liberals to power in 2015.
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Affordable childcare is shaping up to be a key issue in Manitoba’s provincial election. The Manitoba NDP spent Sunday touting how their plan is tailored for shift workers. The Opposition party is vowing to expand $10 a day childcare to include summer months for school-age children if elected in the October election. Manitoba NDP Leader […]
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There is eager anticipation from the Canadian Medical Association after the feds confirmed that legislation to establish a national PharmaCare program will be coming this autumn.
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Phil Lind, a longtime executive of Rogers Communications and confidante to founder Ted Rogers, has died at the age of 80. “Phil worked for Rogers for 54 years, nearly 40 of them with my father and helped build Rogers into the telecom and media powerhouse it is today,” Edward Rogers, Chair of Rogers Communications, said […]
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The Bush Creek East Fire is "one of the most aggressive, extreme fire behaviours" in modern human firefighting history in B.C.
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Evacuees from the Northwest Territories fleeing wildfires began arriving in Manitoba Saturday. The province says a first flight with 15 people landed in Manitoba early in the morning. “Evacuees are being welcomed at the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport, transported to a reception centre and then to their hotel accommodations,” the province said in […]
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Police say a Winnipeg man was arrested after Molotov cocktails and kerosene were found at an apartment on Redwood Avenue. The Winnipeg Police Service says members of its bomb unit needed to remove the incendiary devices Friday around 5 p.m. Police say they received a report that numerous Molotov cocktails were being stored at the […]
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The commitment to $10 a day child-care for certain parents shouldn't take a holiday over the summer months, the Manitoba NDP announced.
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Deadly floodwaters inundated streets across Mexico’s arid Baja California on Sunday as Tropical Storm Hilary moved ashore carrying torrential rain into Southern California, while concerns mounted that flash floods could strike in places as far north as Idaho that rarely get such heavy rain. Forecasters said Hilary was the first tropical storm to hit Southern […]
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Cooperative weather allowed firefighters to make progress overnight on fires in Kelowna and the Okanagan, but the fight is far from over.
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A flight carrying 15 people arrived early Saturday morning and another arrived Saturday night. There are 42 evacuees currently registered at hotels in Winnipeg, a provincial spokesperson said in an email.
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A 34-year-old man has been arrested after police found four Molotov cocktails and kerosene at an apartment in Winnipeg’s north end Friday, a news release said.
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The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service says the improper use of a candle is believed to have sparked a fire in the St. John's neighbourhood early Sunday.
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Winnipeg police have charged a man after finding Molotov cocktails in his home.
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Firefighters trying to keep wildfires at bay from the city of Yellowknife were taking stock of the situation Sunday morning after cooler, damp weather gave them a break Saturday. “What we’re looking at doing is scanning a section of the fire and seeing what areas might be appropriate for direct attack,” said fire information officer […]
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WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jets have signed defenceman Logan Stanley to a one-year contract.
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OTTAWA — Canada’s national housing agency has warned that millions of homes must be built within less than a decade to balance the housing market, but even it seems doubtful that its own target is achievable. The current pace of housing starts is not just lagging. It’s headed in the wrong direction. Last year, the […]
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Here are the deals Save on foods will have Tuesday August 22nd. You can pick these up in store, you can also order them for pickup or delivery. But it all has to be on that one day. And it’s ... Read More »
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Homes have been levelled by wildfires burning in B.C.'s Shuswap and Okanagan regions.
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Hurricane Hilary roared toward Mexico’s Baja California peninsula late Saturday as a downgraded but still dangerous Category 1 hurricane likely to bring “catastrophic” flooding to the region and cross into the southwestern U.S. as a tropical storm. The National Weather Center in Miami said in the most recent advisory at 9 p.m. that the maximum […]
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An invasive worm species from Asia that secretes a dangerous, paralyzing toxin has been spotted in the Montreal area. Lisa Osterland, a retired teacher, found some twenty hammerhead flatworms earlier this week while removing slugs that were eating flowers in her garden in Westmount, Que., a municipality on Montreal Island. She didn’t recognize the invertebrate […]
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Former New Democrat MP Romeo Saganash has been charged with sexual assault, Winnipeg police say. They arrested Saganash on June 27 in relation to an allegation from May 1 in Winnipeg and the matter is now before the courts.
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BC Wildfire Service says they had success overnight fighting the McDougall Creek wildfire near Kelowna, despite a challenging day Friday.
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A 31-year-old woman from Pine Creek First Nation is dead following a single-vehicle crash Friday, RCMP say.
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OTTAWA — Winnipeg police say former New Democrat MP Roméo Saganash has been charged with sexual assault. Police say they arrested Saganash on June 27 in relation to an allegation from May 1 in Winnipeg and the matter is now before the courts. Saganash represented the northern Quebec riding of Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou from 2011 to 2019, […]
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The first flight, which brought in 15 people, arrived early Saturday morning at the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport, a provincial spokesperson said in an email.
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CHERNIHIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile attack in the center of a northern Ukrainian city on Saturday killed seven people and wounded over a hundred others, including children, Ukrainian officials said. The attack in Chernihiv happened as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Sweden on his first foreign trip since attending a NATO summit […]
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Residents of West Kelowna and Kelowna have endured another harrowing night surrounded by wildfires that form the epicentre of a battle against hundreds of blazes across British Columbia. The province-wide fire fight has triggered a provincial state of emergency, with about 15,000 people evacuated from their homes across B.C., and a further 20,000 under evacuation […]
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Demerio Houston has a new football for his mantle after his first professional interception for a touchdown was the difference on Friday night.
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OTTAWA — Canada’s Heritage Minister is calling on Meta to allow people to share news articles on Facebook and Instagram as thousands flee wildfires that have devoured homes in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories. Pascale St-Onge says Meta’s decision to continue blocking Canadian news articles on its two massive platforms is “reckless.” In a […]
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MINEGOZIIBE ANISHINABE — No evidence of human remains has been found during the excavation of a Catholic church basement on the site of a former Manitoba residential school.
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Winnipegger Nish Joshi took a figurative dive into filmmaking industry after learning how his father faced his own fear of water. Joshi's new short film First Step in the Water examines their parallel stories.
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Fifteen tires, 13 shopping carts and five bikes were among the masses of garbage a team from an environmental non-profit pulled out of Winnipeg’s Seine River this summer.
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A company that highlights the work of Pakistani artists and the importance of preserving culture through fair trade is weaving together a cultural exchange in southwestern Manitoba.
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OTTAWA — It’s been just over three years since Veterans Affairs Canada released a strategy to tackle its 23,000 backlogged benefits applications, and that file has landed on the desk of a new minister for the first time. Ginette Petitpas Taylor has taken over from longtime minister Lawrence MacAulay, and she says finishing the job […]
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OTTAWA — Stefania Giesbrecht was hoping that by the time she finished her studies, she could move back to her community of Saugeen First Nation. But after nine years on a wait-list, the single mother of three said she has no idea when she will be able to make the move to the community on […]
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Nearly all residents have left the capital of the Northwest Territories, where officials say the weather has helped slow the threat of an encroaching wildfire. An evacuation order issued Wednesday for Yellowknife, a city of 20,000, had a deadline of Friday noon, and RCMP were going door to door urging people to leave. Officials say […]
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court on Friday revived lawsuits from two men who allege Michael Jackson sexually abused them for years when they were boys. A three-judge panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal found that the lawsuits of Wade Robson and James Safechuck should not have been dismissed by a […]
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No evidence of human remains has been found during the excavation of a Catholic church basement on the site of a former Manitoba residential school.
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Cold case detectives in Florida say a homicide victim found floating near a beach in the Sunshine State more than two decades ago was a Canadian man with ties to Winnipeg, a discovery made thanks to DNA technology, and police hope the information leads to answers about who killed him.
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