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In the news today: Travel restrictions lifted in B.C., phone disruptions in NWT

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Evacuation, travel orders lifted as fires diminish The last travel restriction ...

Aug 25, 2023

Evacuation orders, final travel ban lifted for Kelowna area as wildfires diminish

The last travel restriction for the Okanagan region in British Columbia has been lifted alongside all previous evacuation orders within Kelowna's city limits, as wildfires there diminish after this we...

Aug 25, 2023

Fear, falsehoods and conspiracy theories ignite amid Canada's wildfires

Canada's current wildfire season is devastating evidence of the effects of climate change, scientists say, but for some conspiracy theorists, the thousands of square kilometres of burnt ground isn't e...

Aug 25, 2023

Mother tells B.C. murder trial of final embrace with teenage girl, hours before death

VANCOUVER - The mother of a 13-year-old girl found dead in a British Columbia park six years ago has told a murder trial how she gave her a last hug, hours before the girl's death. The Chinese mother ...

Aug 24, 2023

N.W.T. wildfires disrupt phone, internet services as evacuee anxiety mounts

YELLOWKNIFE - Wildfires continued to disrupt communication services Thursday in the Northwest Territories while crews braced for a tough two days fighting the blaze threatening the capital city of Yel...

Aug 24, 2023

Prevent illegal mass data extraction, privacy authorities tell social media firms

OTTAWA - The federal privacy watchdog and some of his global counterparts are urging the largest social media companies to prevent bulk extraction of personal details from their websites. In a joint s...

Aug 24, 2023

TSB report warns that unnoticed locomotive fires pose wildfire risk

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is warning about the risks of fires going unnoticed on locomotives and setting wildfires, citing dozens of on-board blazes in a report into an incident two ye...

Aug 24, 2023

The wildland-urban interface: why wildfire fatalities seem so prevalent in the U.S.

WASHINGTON - The oceanfront home on Maui's western shore sits unscathed, family car in the driveway, its pristine red roof and well-tended yard an oasis of hope on a bleak landscape of ash and destruc...

Aug 24, 2023

Foreign interference talks: Parties trade jabs for bipartisan chats from the cottage

OTTAWA - House leaders for the main federal parties have been working together this summer to make a public inquiry on foreign interference happen, as they put aside partisan jabs that dominated Parli...

Aug 24, 2023

Nagorno-Karabakh: Azerbaijan chides Joly for 'unacceptable' comments to Armenians

OTTAWA - Azerbaijan's foreign ministry argues Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly is undermining peace in the Nagorno-Karabakh region by referring to the area with the name used by Armenian ...

Aug 24, 2023