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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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Federal budget money will help N.L. homes get built faster, says deputy PM
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was in Mount Pearl on Wednesday to tout housing funding in the federal budget. (Heather Gillis/CBC)Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says funding announcements made in the federal budget will get homes built faster — something Newfoundland and Labrador needs to do to meet current and future demand."We need supply, supply, supply," Freeland told reporters at the site of a new apartment complex in Mount Pearl on Wednesday. "This is our country's most p
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Police seeing no further extortion of South Asian businesses as investigation continues
A rash of extortion incidents targeting South Asian home builders in Edmonton has dropped off, but police are continuing to investigate the string of arsons that have destroyed new or under-construction homes.On Wednesday, the Edmonton Police Service provided an update on Project Gaslight — a probe into 34 incidents alleged to have been carried out by a group of local suspects who are being directed by someone in India.Investigators have said the houses went up in flames after local South Asian
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Woman who left beaten dad on basement floor for 2 days was 'overwhelmed' with his care, judge told
A Calgary woman who abused her sick, 77-year-old father was "overwhelmed" at the task of caring for him, a judge heard Wednesday at a sentencing hearing. In January, Tara Picard, 52, pleaded guilty to charges of assault and failing to provide the necessaries of life after her father (whom CBC News is not naming) was found injured on a basement floor, where he'd been lying for two days. On Wednesday, prosecutor Donna Spaner and defence lawyer Shaun Leochko asked the judge to allow Picard to serve
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Students vying for a chance to fight wildfires in the Yukon
The next generation of wildland firefighters is being whittled into shape in Whitehorse.A 12-day intensive boot camp called "Beat the Heat" is putting their physical and mental skills to the test. If the students pass, they'll get a ticket to join a unit crew with Yukon First Nations Wildfire.First, the 40 hopeful students have to endure a daily firehose of new information, topped with gruelling workouts. Tyrel Kassi from Old Crow, Yukon, said he planned to challenge himself the best he could. H
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Shock and grief as mourners gather to remember 16-year-old homicide victim in Halifax
The Muslim community in Halifax is expressing outrage and sadness over the loss of a teenage boy killed earlier this week in what police have ruled a homicide.The Kearney Lake Masjid, a local mosque, was packed with mourners Wednesday afternoon for a wake and funeral prayer for Ahmad Al Marrach, 16, who came to Canada from Syria as a refugee eight years ago.Imam Hamzah Mangera said the high school student had been struggling to settle in his new country, but was beginning to see positive change.
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Whitehorse city council wants an elementary school downtown
Whitehorse city council passed a motion this week calling on the territorial government to keep an elementary school in the downtown core.It comes as the territory plans to shutter the École Whitehorse Elementary School building in the coming years, and replace it with a new school to be built beside Takhini Elementary School on Range Road. That would leave the downtown core without an elementary school.The plan was announced in 2022, with the government saying the 74-year-old École Whitehorse E
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