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Quebec teachers unions call for better working conditions to address staff shortages
MONTREAL - Unions representing Quebec teachers are calling on the provincial government to address staff shortages by improving working conditions. Jose Scalabrini, president of a federation of 34 Que...
Aug 21, 2023

Law society hearing for lawyers accused of surveilling Winnipeg judge begins
WINNIPEG - A Law Society of Manitoba hearing is underway for two lawyers facing charges related to complaints that they hired a private investigator to surveil a judge who was hearing a case involving...
Aug 21, 2023

The latest news on the wildfires ravaging British Columbia
A state of emergency remains in place today across British Columbia as threatening wildfires force thousands of residents to evacuate from homes in the Okanagan in the southern Interior and elsewhere ...
Aug 21, 2023

Montreal police investigating after overnight violence leaves one dead, two injured
Montreal police are investigating separate violent incidents last night that left one person dead and two people injured. Police say they responded to a call about gunshots a little after midnight in ...
Aug 21, 2023

British nurse Lucy Letby imprisoned for life for the murders of 7 babies and attempted murders of 6
LONDON (AP) - A British judge has sentenced Lucy Letby to spend the rest of her life in prison for murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others while working as a neonatal nurse at a hospi...
Aug 21, 2023

Suspected Palestinian gunman kills an Israeli, wounds another in latest attack in occupied West Bank
JERUSALEM (AP) - A suspected Palestinian attacker killed an Israeli woman and seriously wounded a man in the south of the occupied West Bank on Monday, Israeli authorities said, as violence continued ...
Aug 21, 2023

In the news today: Wildfires continue raging across B.C., N.W.T.
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Smoky conditions help B.C. fire fight As Metro Vancouver is being warned about ...
Aug 21, 2023

Premier Caroline Cochrane recounts hunt for homeless during Yellowknife evacuation
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 ...
Aug 21, 2023

First Nation hosting traditional healing gathering to recover from stabbing rampage
JAMES SMITH CREE NATION - A Saskatchewan First Nation that was the site of a mass stabbing last year is hosting a gathering of traditional healing. James Smith Cree Nation Chief Wally Burns says up to...
Aug 21, 2023

Southern California braces for more floods as tropical storm soaks region from coast to desert
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tropical Storm Hilary drenched Southern California from the coast to inland mountains and deserts Sunday evening, prompting rescues from swollen rivers and forcing some of the natio...
Aug 21, 2023