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N.S. Bangladeshi community celebrates Bengali New Year and Eid
St. Mary's Boat Club in Halifax was filled with the sights and sounds of Bangladesh on Saturday as community members came together to celebrate Eid-al-Fitr and Bengali New Year.Year 1431 on the Bengali calendar began on April 14.The Northwest Arm venue was filled to capacity with people wearing traditional Bangladeshi clothing who came for the opportunity to shop, eat and enjoy cultural performances.Golam Talukder, the chairperson of the Bangladesh Community Association of Nova Scotia, said the
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Woman's death in Surrey, B.C. home being treated as homicide
A woman's death in a Surrey, B.C. home is being investigated as a homicide.RCMP said they received reports of the "sudden death" of a woman in a home in the Newton neighbourhood of Surrey on Friday around 8:30 p.m. PT.Officers found a 33-year-old woman at a home near the intersection of 76 Avenue and 142 Street, they said, adding it was an isolated incident and that there's no risk to the public.The police didn't release any information about the cause of death or potential suspects. A large pol
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Transit trips up among seniors since Montreal introduced free fare program, city says
MONTREAL — A costly program offering free public transportation fares to Montreal seniors is paying off, the city said in a recent report as it documented a spike in transit use among people age 65 and older. In the six months since the program launched on July 1, 2023, the city said the number of trips taken by those in the target age group surged between 15 and 20 per cent. The findings were contained in a 2025 budget planning document the city published Tuesday. Forty-seven per cent of eligib
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Students set up indefinite pro-Palestinian encampment at McGill University
Several tents have gone up on McGill's downtown campus in what students are calling an act of solidarity with the Palestinian cause, joining a wave of similar protests taking place across U.S. campuses. On Saturday afternoon, organizers could be heard asking over loudspeakers that as many people as possible stay at the encampment overnight. Protestors are demanding McGill and Concordia universities "divest from funds implicated in the Zionist state as well as [cut] ties with Zionist academic ins
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VideoLondon's iconic Tower Bridge gets spring clean
One of London's most iconic landmarks, Tower Bridge, had a spring clean in the early hours of Wednesday morning.Specialist sub-contractors abseiled from the structure’s twin high-level walkways, suspended 42 metres above the waters of the River Thames.
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New Brunswick to mourn those who never returned from work
Melissa Brown tells the story of a woman who set the breakfast table in anticipation of her husband's return. But it never happened because of a workplace accident."She was six months pregnant with her first child and her 27-year-old husband didn't make it home," said Brown, the president of the Moncton & District Labour Council.Brown said that woman will share her story Sunday afternoon during an event at Moncton's Bore Park to mark a national day of mourning.Melissa Brown is the president of M
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Woman dies after head-on collision on highway west of Montreal
Quebec provincial police say a 51-year-old woman has died after a head-on collision in the town of Lachute, Que., roughly 50 kilometres west of Montreal, early this morning.Police spokesperson Frédéric Deshaies says preliminary information suggests a vehicle heading west on Highway 50 entered the oncoming traffic lane and hit the car the woman was driving.She was initially brought to the hospital in critical condition but later died.Deshaies says police arrested the driver of the second vehicle,
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