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3 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Sara Parks |Hannah Alberga |Jack Farrell |Rianna Lim
A Saskatchewan wildfire has reached the community of La Ronge, destroying the Rona and Robertson’s Trading Post stores. Derek Wrightson posted a photo saying Rona is gone and Robertson’s Trading Post was on fire. Likewise, Canadian Challenge Sled Dog posted on June 4 that fires destroyed the legendary Robertson’s Trading Post Stores and Rona in the heart of La Ronge.
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4 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Bill Graveland |Sharif Hassan |Rianna Lim |Dylan Robertson
Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press - | Story: 553488The RCMP says air restrictions will be in place in two main areas during the upcoming G7 Leaders' Summit in Alberta this June. Sgt. Mark Basanta from RCMP Protective Operations says the no-fly zones will include both the Calgary International Airport and Kananaskis, where the leaders will be. He says the radius at Kananaskis Village will be 30 nautical miles (56 kilometres), while the airport will be 20 nautical miles (37 kilometres).
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4 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Sharif Hassan |Rianna Lim |Dylan Robertson |Joshua Clipperton
Crews battling a fire in northern Alberta have lost radio contact and are taking shelter as a runaway wildfire inched closer to the community. Alberta Forestry Minister Todd Loewen says the firefighters working to save structures in Chipewyan Lake, west of Fort McMurray, lost contact late on Thursday evening. A social-media post by the minister says one group is sheltering at the local fire station and another is safe at the school.
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4 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Sharif Hassan |Rianna Lim |Dylan Robertson |Joshua Clipperton
A 14-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder after an elderly woman was fatally stabbed outside her home in Pickering, Ont., police said Friday. Durham Regional Police said the attack happened in the area of Lynn Heights Drive and Fairport Road around 3 p.m. Thursday, and a passerby found the woman on the ground. The woman was taken to a Toronto-area trauma centre where she was pronounced dead, police said. Pickering Mayor Kevin Ashe confirmed the woman was in her 80s.
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4 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Sharif Hassan |Rianna Lim |Dylan Robertson |Joshua Clipperton
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Ottawa probably can't undertake a thorough overhaul of how municipalities are funded in the near future, with the federal government now focused on major projects. Carney spoke this morning to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, which represents cities and towns that have lobbied Ottawa to give them more independent means of financing their operations.
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4 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Maura Forrest |Sharif Hassan |Morgan Lowrie |Rianna Lim
Quebec's language watchdog contacted the Montreal transit agency at least six times in the wake of a complaint about using the word "go" on city buses to cheer on a local soccer team. The watchdog — the Office québécois de la langue française — asked for multiple updates on the agency’s efforts to remove the word, and kept the complaint open for nine months until “go” had been scrubbed from more than 1,000 city buses in Montreal, according to emails obtained by The Canadian Press.
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4 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Morgan Lowrie |Sharif Hassan |Rianna Lim |Michael Tutton
Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press - | Story: 553365Almost one year after serial killer Robert Pickton died following an assault by another inmate in a Quebec prison, there have been no charges against the alleged assailant and few answers about what happened. Pickton died in hospital on May 31, 2024, after being assaulted at the Port-Cartier maximum security prison 12 days prior.
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4 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Rianna Lim |Michael Tutton |Steve Lambert |David Baxter
Nova Scotia Power's CEO says up to 140,000 social insurance numbers could have been stolen by cyber-thieves who recently hacked into the utility's customer records. Peter Gregg said in an interview Thursday that the privately owned utility collected the numbers from customers to authenticate their identities.
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4 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Rianna Lim |Michael Tutton |Steve Lambert |David Baxter
When David Bennett decided to escape Canada's icy winter with a weeklong trip to the Dominican Republic, he never imagined he'd be fighting to get back on Canadian soil for more than two months. Bennett has finally returned to his Burlington, Ont., home after being arrested in the Caribbean country and accused of smuggling drugs. Even after the charges were withdrawn, he was stuck in the island nation for weeks due to court delays.
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2 months ago | 
winnipegsun.com | Rianna Lim |Maan Alhmidi
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