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  • ScienceThe Weather Network

    Watch for Halley's Comet meteors streaking through the night sky

    Eyes to the sky as the eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks this weekend.

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  • NewsThe Canadian Press

    Quebec premier says pro-Palestinian encampment at McGill 'has to be dismantled'

    MONTREAL — Quebec Premier François Legault on Thursday called for the end to the pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the lower field of McGill University's downtown campus in Montreal, saying he expected police to dismantle the tents. His comments followed calls by McGill earlier this week for police to remove the dozens of tents that have been pitched on the field since Saturday in protest of the war in Gaza. "The encampment is illegal," Legault told reporters in Quebec City. "The law must be

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    Lawyer says Surrey had pathway to keep RCMP but made 'no effort' to meet conditions

    VANCOUVER — A lawyer for B.C.'s Public Safety Ministry says the City of Surrey was given a pathway to retain the RCMP as its police force, but "made no effort at all" to meet conditions to do so. Trevor Bant told the B.C. Supreme Court that the city's plan to abandon a transition to the Surrey Police Service didn't consider the risk of losing municipal officers who didn't want to join the RCMP. Bant was speaking on day four of the city's legal challenge against the B.C. public safety minister's

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    Quesnel, B.C., censures mayor, saying his actions jeopardize Indigenous relations

    QUESNEL, B.C. — Councillors in Quesnel, B.C., have voted unanimously to censure their mayor, saying his actions related to a book denying the harms of Canada's residential school system jeopardize the city's relationship with Indigenous communities. Coun. Scott Elliott made the motion, telling council that all the work that has been done to rebrand the city has been "demolished" by Mayor Ron Paull's actions. A report to council says Paull "attempted to distribute" a copy of the book, titled "Gra

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    Ottawa will appoint commissioner to oversee treaties with Indigenous Peoples: Trudeau

    GATINEAU, Que. — The federal government is planning to create a new agent of Parliament to oversee modern treaty implementation, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says will ensure Ottawa is held to account no matter who is in power. He announced the plan to appoint a commissioner for modern treaty implementation Tuesday in Gatineau, Que., at a second annual meeting of self-governing Indigenous governments. "This is a lasting commitment to be a better treaty partner," he said. "To honour our ag

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    3-month-old, grandparents visiting from India killed in 401 crash: SIU

    Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has released more information about Monday's crash that killed four people, including a three-month-old boy, after police chased a suspect through oncoming traffic on Highway 401 east of Toronto.

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  • EntertainmentYahoo News Canada

    2024 Hot Docs 'Beethoven’s Nine: Ode To Humanity': Filmmaker turns camera on himself after devastating loss

    After his sister, Judih Weinstein, died during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Larry Weinstein featured himself in Beethoven’s Nine: Ode To Humanity, part of the 2024 Hot Docs festival.

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