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Second encampment fire in as many days chars Nanaimo's Bowen Park
NANAIMO - For the second time in as many days, local fire crews have responded to a sizeable fire at Bowen Park.Two engines and a water tender were used to douse an encampment fire, towards the north ...
Aug 17, 2022
Red Deer one of four cities getting new passport services
Red Deer is part of a federal announcement Wednesday that will see new passport service locations added in four Canadian cities.Government officials say this is to address a backlog in processing appl...
Aug 17, 2022
B.C. cannabis stores grapple with delivery stoppage as BCLDB workers go on strike
BURNABY, B.C. - British Columbian cannabis stores are bracing for emptier shelves after a strike stopped the province's pot distribution centre from shipping out product. The British Columbia General ...
Aug 17, 2022
Sheen dissipates but sunken U.S. fish boat still in orca habitat east of Victoria
VICTORIA - The United States Department of Ecology says an oil sheen from a sunken fish boat appears to have completely dissipated from an area of U.S. waters just east of Vancouver Island. The update...
Aug 17, 2022
Feds announce four new passport service sites as backlog continues
OTTAWA - The federal government is adding new passport service locations across Canada as a backlog in processing applications continues. Social Development Minister Karina Gould says people can now a...
Aug 17, 2022
Number of Indigenous-language speakers drops in Canada: census
OTTAWA - New data from Statistics Canada suggests the number of people who can speak an Indigenous language has dropped slightly. However, the agency says comparing census years should be done with ca...
Aug 17, 2022
Giuliani arrives to testify in Georgia 2020 election probe
ATLANTA (AP) - Rudy Giuliani arrived at an Atlanta courthouse Wednesday under a judge's order to appear before a special grand jury that is investigating attempts by former President Donald Trump and ...
Aug 17, 2022
CP NewsAlert: Census data shows linguistic diversity on the rise in Canada
OTTAWA - The latest census figures show a record high number of people in Canada now have a mother tongue other than French or English. English and French are still by far the most common languages sp...
Aug 17, 2022
Convoy intelligence documents, Catholic class action: In The News for Aug. 17
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kick-start your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Wednesday, August 17, 2022. What we are watch...
Aug 17, 2022
UNESCO team in Alberta to judge if Wood Buffalo Park should go on endangered list
EDMONTON - A United Nations body that monitors some of the world's greatest natural glories is in Canada again to assess government responses to ongoing threats to the country's largest national park,...
Aug 17, 2022