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Summerside facing challenges of growth, says mayor in state-of-city address
Mayor Dan Kutcher delivered Summerside's first-ever state-of-the-city address Wednesday morning.In a document containing the text of the speech provided in advance to CBC News, Kutcher spoke of the challenges facing Summerside, many of them connected to rapid population growth, and how the city is addressing them.Kutcher delivered the speech to a small crowd at Credit Union Place."Our population has grown by over 10 per cent in just a few years," the mayor said."Recently we have been adding as m
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5 people from Maine arrested during DFO elver fishery patrol in Nova Scotia
Federal fisheries officers patrolling for unauthorized elver fishing arrested five people from Maine last weekend in southwest Nova Scotia, adding to the evidence that groups from outside the province have flocked to local rivers to catch the lucrative juvenile eels.The Department of Fisheries and Oceans said in a news release Wednesday officers seized nearly 3½ kilograms of elvers during the arrests in the Meteghan area of Digby County, along with a vehicle and four nets. The department did not
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B.C. imposes five-month ban on large open fires in Interior
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The BC Wildfire Service has announced a five-month open fire ban covering much of the province's Interior, as fire season gets off to an early start. The ban on Category 3 fires in the Kamloops fire centre will run from May 3 to Oct. 11 and will prohibit people burning three or more fires on a property at the same time, or any single fire burning a pile larger than two metres in height or three metres in width. Grass burns bigger than 0.2 hectares will also be banned, the servic
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Trudeau won't comment on future of TikTok in U.S., says Canadian safety a priority
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's not going to comment on the future of TikTok in the United States, but his own government will continue to look out for Canadians' security. The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that would force TikTok's parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance, to sell the social-media app within the year or face an American ban. The proposed ban was slipped into a multi-billion dollar aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Trudeau says when it comes to TikTok,
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Trudeau says Sask. premier is fighting CRA on carbon tax, wishes him 'good luck with that'
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe's decision to stop collecting and remitting carbon taxes on natural gas has put him in direct conflict with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)."I don't know about you, but having an argument with CRA about not wanting to pay your taxes is not a position I want anyone to be in. Good luck with that, Premier Moe," Trudeau said in Oakville, Ont. on Wednesday. Moe announced in late October that SaskEnergy, the provincial natural gas utili
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Alberta enacts fire restriction as wildfire conditions grow extreme
A sweeping fire restriction has been put in place across Alberta as hot, dry weather leaves forests tinder-dry.Emergency officials are urging extreme caution in the weeks ahead as a persistent and severe drought pushes Alberta's wildfire danger to the extreme.On Wednesday, following a wildfire information update, the province introduced a fire restriction in the province's forest protection areas in effort to manage the risk.With the exception of Calgary's forest protection zone, all outdoor fir
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VideoCaitlin Cronenberg feels no pressure to live up to father’s legacy with debut film ‘Humane’
Toronto’s Caitlin Cronenberg isn’t worried about her debut feature film “Humane” drawing comparisons to the darker work of her father, Canadian horror pioneer David Cronenberg. She says she’s sorry to the people who will be disappointed it’s not more of a body-horror film. (April 24, 2024)
