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Police investigating an alleged homicide in Mission, B.C.
Police are investigating an alleged homicide at a rural property in Mission, B.C., on Friday night.Mission RCMP said they received a report from B.C. Emergency Health Services of an incident at a home at the 30300-block of Dewdney Trunk Road around 11 p.m. PT. Mission is about 75 kilometres southeast of Vancouver. A 25-year-old man was found unresponsive at the scene and could not be resuscitated.A suspect has been arrested and is in police custody. Police did not state if the suspect has been c
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Faculty join U of T encampment protest
Pro-Palestinian student protesters are entering the third day of their encampment demonstration at the University of Toronto Saturday and are seeing faculty joining them in support. Robyn Maynard, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, was at the encampment Saturday supporting students. She said there's a large number of University faculty there in solidarity."We feel it's really important that we can be here as witnesses, given the kinds of dangers some of the students have been e
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2024 Hot Docs 'The Day Iceland Stood Still': For 24 hours in 1975, 90% of women in Iceland took a day off
In 1975, 90 per cent of women in Iceland walked out of their jobs and homes, taking a day off from working, doing housework, caring for their children.
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Barss Corner gets first custom postmark
It's taken over a century, but the post office in Barss Corner, N.S., is finally able to make its mark with pictures on mail arriving for local residents and postmark collectors alike.The tiny rural post office in Lunenburg County that serves about 500 addresses held a launch ceremony at the end of April to celebrate joining several other Nova Scotia communities that have pictorial postmarks, also known as cancellation stamps.The postmark is an ink stamp used to indicate the date that a piece of
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Holdover wildfire near Fort Smith, N.W.T. declared out
One of two wildfires reported so far this year in N.W.T. has been put out, according to NWT Fire.Data on NWT Fire's live fire map shows that fire SS001-24 is declared "out" starting on 9:30 a.m. on Saturday morning.Fire SS001-24 was one of two small holdover fires from last summer recently reported as active near Fort Smith.SS001-24 was roughly two hectares in size and located about 21 kilometres northwest of Fort Smith, on the near side of the Slave River. Another small holdover fire is still r
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Nova Scotia NDP makes campaign-style housing promises
Nova Scotia NDP Leader Claudia Chender roused a couple hundred supporters in a hotel ballroom in Halifax Saturday with a speech that proclaimed her party to be "on the rise" as it prepares for the next general election.At a party policy convention, Chender said housing is the issue she hears about most on the doorstep. She laid out what she described as the "backbone" of the NDP's plan for addressing the housing crisis.The plan included an item the NDP has long called for — rent control.Nova Sco
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