CALIFORNIA – Search teams have recovered remains of 42 people killed by a fierce wildfire that largely incinerated the town of Paradise in northern California, marking the greatest loss of life from a wild land blaze in state history. Grace Lee has more information and picture from the scene in this Reuters News video report.…
No End In Sight For Canada Post Strike
OTTAWA — Union negotiators say there was little progress in the two−and−a−half weeks that a special mediator was assigned to the Canada Post labour dispute. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says rotating strikes will continue across the country, even as contract talks continue a day after mediator Morton Mitchnick’s mandate expired. CUPW national president…
Too Many Polar Bears in the North
There are too many polar bears in parts of Nunavut and climate change hasn’t yet affected any of them, says a draft management plan from the territorial government that contradicts much of conventional scientific thinking. The proposed plan — which is to go to public hearings in Iqaluit on Tuesday — says that growing bear…
Canadian Community Where Nobody Wants to be Mayor
WELLINGTON, P.E.I. — Nobody wanted to be mayor, but Wellington, P.E.I., got one anyway. There were no mayoral candidates in Monday’s province−wide municipal elections, so the provincial government simply appointed the outgoing mayor, Alcide Bernard, to a four−year term. Bernard had not run for re−election — he decided he had done his time, and he…
No Motive for Explosion at Sherwood Park Parkade
SHERWOOD PARK, Alta. — Police say only one of two explosions that rocked a parkade east of Edmonton earlier this week was deliberate, and they say the suspect who died after the incident shot himself. RCMP had already identified Kane Kosolowsky, 21, as the man who was discovered injured Tuesday evening in a vehicle at…
War Bride Portraits a ‘Labour of Love’
For Bev Tosh, it began as a labour of love: creating a portrait of her mother as a 1940s war bride on the occasion of her 80th birthday, a likeness rendered in oil from a decades−old photo. But that single painting took the Calgary artist down a path she could never have foreseen. Eighteen years…
PM’s Patience Running Out With Canada Post
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is giving indications that his patience is running out for Canada Post to reach a contract settlement with its unionized employees as rotating strikes continue. Trudeau says his government might soon act to end the dispute if the Crown corporation and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers can’t bridge…
Trudeau Formally Apologizes for Canada Refusing to Give Jewish Passengers Asylum
OTTAWA — The federal government’s apology for one of Canada’s most shameful anti−Semitic episodes was personal for some of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet ministers. For International Trade Diversification Minister Jim Carr it brought back painful memories of being beaten to a pulp just because he’s Jewish. “When I was 15 years old in junior…
CRA Cracking Down on Phone Scammers
OTTAWA — The Canada Revenue Agency says so many Canadians get calls from scammers pretending to be tax enforcers that real tax agents are having trouble reaching people. The CRA and the RCMP say in a briefing in Ottawa Wednesday that they are trying to crack down on call centres loaded with fraudsters who phone…
Canada May Still Ratify New NAFTA
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn’t ruling out the possibility that Canada will ratify its new North American trade deal with the United States and Mexico even if U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum exports are still in place. In an interview with CNN, portions of which are airing as U.S. voters cast ballots…