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1 dead after vehicle hits parked trailer in Mississauga: police
One person is dead after their vehicle crashed into a parked trailer in a Mississauga parking lot Wednesday afternoon, Peel police say.Police were called to a parking lot near Tomken Road and Courtneypark Drive East around 4:47 p.m., they said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.Police said the driver was pronounced dead at the scene and the major collision bureau is investigating.
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VideoChicago's 'rat hole' removed after city determines sidewalk with animal impression was damaged
Chicago's so-called “rat hole” is gone. A Chicago sidewalk landmark some affectionately call the “rat hole” has been removed after city officials determined the section bearing the imprint of an animal was damaged.
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'I'm alarmed': N.W.T. MLAs question minister on emergency plan updates
Some Northwest Territories MLAs grilled officials from the territory's municipal and community affairs department Wednesday on updates to its emergency plan. MLAs discussed the updates at a public ministerial briefing at the standing committee on accountability and oversight. The territorial government released updates to its emergency plan on Monday. That plan is meant to be a living document that describes the emergency management framework in the N.W.T. and the roles and responsibilities of d
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VideoBen-Gvir leaves synagogue in Jerusalem as protest held outside over hostages held in Gaza
Protesters calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza waited outside a synagogue in Jerusalem as far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was seen leaving it.
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Don't leave us out of UN plastic treaty talks, says Aamjiwnaang First Nation
OTTAWA — A First Nation in southern Ontario has a simple message for the delegates who are gathered in Ottawa this week to negotiate a treaty to curb plastic waste around the world: don't leave us out. Aamjiwnaang First Nation councillor Janelle Nahmabin says Indigenous Peoples are already on the front lines of dealing with the after-effects of plastic pollution. Leaving them out of the conversation only makes that harder, she said through tears Wednesday alongside a panel of her peers. Nahmabin
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Quebec liquor store employees walk off the job as two-day strike begins
MONTREAL — Some 5,000 Quebec liquor corporation workers walked off the job on Wednesday for a planned two-day strike amid contract negotiations with their employer. Their union — the Syndicat des employé(e)s de magasins et de bureaux de la SAQ — confirmed at midnight on Facebook it was launching the strike after a lack of progress at the negotiating table. It says the two strike days are the first to be used under the union's 15-day strike mandate. The union said about 70 per cent of its members
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Police seeking person who vandalized Kensington footbridge with racist graffiti
The Kensington police department is looking for whoever left an anti-Black slur on a footbridge near the Confederation Trail in central Prince Edward Island. "This investigation is being treated as a suspected hate-motivated offence," the force said in a social media post Wednesday afternoon.Const. James Gotell said the Royal Canadian Legion reported the crime after a walker told the group about graffiti on a wooden bridge that links a legion park to the trail. "By the time that we arrived there
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