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Tropics are waking up with the first disturbance of 2024
The National Hurricane Center issued the first special tropical outlook of the 2024 hurricane season early Thursday morning.
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Keep Sarnia plastic plant shut until First Nation says it's safe: environment groups
OTTAWA — International environmental advocates are calling for a petrochemical plant in southern Ontario to remain closed in light of reports about a benzene leak that continues to affect a neighbouring First Nation community. The letter, signed by more than 100 organizations around the world, calls on Canada's environment minister to take immediate steps to ensure the plant remains closed until the Aamjiwnaang First Nation deems it safe to reopen. The plant was closed over the weekend after emp
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Quebec police say 40 'high risk' sex offenders arrested in provincewide operation
MONTREAL — Quebec provincial police say they've arrested 40 sex offenders in an operation involving multiple police forces across the province. The operation targeted people considered a high risk to reoffend. Police looked for offenders who had violated court-imposed conditions and those subject to arrest warrants. They say they found "numerous" people who had violated an order to register with the national sex offender registry. The operation, which began April 2, involved 24 municipal police
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Quebec family reimbursed $10,000 for being shipped wrong body after death in Cuba
MONTREAL — A Montreal-area family that was sent the wrong body after a loved one's death in Cuba has received a $10,000 reimbursement and an apology from the Caribbean country. Miriam Jarjour says her family was refunded the money paid to repatriate her father's remains but still doesn't know what happened to his body. Laval, Que., resident Faraj Allah Jarjour had a heart attack and died on March 22 while vacationing with his family near Varadero, Cuba. But the casket that was sent to Canada las
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Juno reveals 'smooth as glass' lava lake on Jupiter's moon, Io
Images from NASA's Juno probe have revealed some surprising details about Io's tortured volcanic surface.
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N.L. minister seeks Criminal Code changes he says will protect domestic abuse victims
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador’s Justice Minister has written to his federal counterpart to ask for changes to the Criminal Code relating to bail and detention in cases of intimate partner violence. John Hogan wrote the letter to Arif Virani last month, about a week after a St. John's, N.L., woman was found dead and Ibrahim Alahmad was charged with her murder. Alahmad had been facing a litany of previous charges involving the woman — whose identity is protected by a publication ban
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Tory MP for Oshawa joins ranks of federal politicians who won't run in next election
OTTAWA — Conservative member of Parliament Colin Carrie, who represents Oshawa, Ont., says he will not run in the next election. Carrie was first elected in 2004 and re-elected six times. He says it's been an honour to serve as an MP but it's time to clear a path for someone new to represent the community. In February, the House of Commons unanimously adopted a private member's bill that Carrie introduced. It would ensure that more information about the temporary absences, releases or parole of
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