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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 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 repor
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Dead bodies in Mexico likely are missing U.S., Australian surfers
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The three dead bodies found in Mexico's Baja California state are highly likely to be the American and two Australian tourists who went missing last week, a senior official from the region said on Saturday. Mexican authorities are conducting forensic tests after finding the bodies on Friday in a well following a days long search for Australian brothers Callum, 33, and Jake Robinson, 30, as well as American Carter Rhoad, 30. "All three bodies meet the characteristics to a
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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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WestJet issues lockout notice to mechanics' union
WestJet has issued a 72-hour lockout notice to the union representing the Calgary-based airline's mechanics. The notice paves the way for a work stoppage to begin on Tuesday.Last week, the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA), which represents the carrier's aircraft maintenance engineers, announced that members would begin taking a strike vote on May 2. Voting will continue until May 9.WestJet and the AMFA have been negotiating a new contract since September 2023.In a Saturday morning
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Montreal city workers will come to a park near you to collect hazardous waste
The city of Montreal is setting up 30 travelling collection sites for hazardous household waste like batteries, nail polish bottles, propane canisters and cleaning products.Other products collected include old tires, electronics, solvants, and anything involving paint or gas.These kinds of materials are not meant to be thrown in the trash, and the city has bylaws in place on how to sort garbage. People can consult the collection schedule or bring their waste to an ecocentre.Ecocentres are among
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