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Montreal, Canada | AFP | The Rideau Canal Skateway, the world’s largest open-air ice rink and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, will not open this year for the first time in its history because of a mild winter, managers confirmed Friday. “Despite our best efforts, the weather got the best of us for the first time in our history,” the Ottawa facility said on its Twitter account. “We share everyone’s disappointment,” it added in a […]
Toronto, Canada | AFP | Canada is sending four additional battle tanks to Ukraine — doubling its commitment — and sanctioning an additional 192 Russian individuals and entities, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday. “Canada has stood in solidarity with Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict,” Trudeau said in a news conference on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “We will continue to do so,” Trudeau told journalists, speaking in Toronto where he […]
Ottawa, Canada | AFP | Tuesday 2/21/2023 Canadians paid 5.9 percent more for goods and services in January than a year earlier, as costs continued sliding from last year’s high, the government statistical agency said Tuesday. Prices for cellular services and passenger vehicles led the deceleration, according to Statistics Canada, while mortgage costs and food prices continued to rise. The inflation rate beat analyst expectations, after ending 2022 at 6.3 percent. The surprise lower rate […]
Ottawa, Canada (AFP) — Canada is deploying two warships off the coast of Haiti over the coming weeks to conduct surveillance of the crisis-hit country and support local police, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday. Speaking to a meeting of Caribbean leaders in the Bahamian capital Nassau, he said the ships will “conduct surveillance, gather intelligence and maintain a maritime presence off the Haitian coast in the coming weeks.” At a news conference later, he […]
Washington, United States | AFP | by Paul HANDLEY / Brian KNOWLTON A US warplane shot down a new flying object near the Canadian border on Sunday, the latest of three mysterious devices spotted since military radar settings were cranked up in the wake of the downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon. Jittery Americans have been watching the skies as the mysterious incursions unfolded against a backdrop of acute tensions with China — although only the first […]
Ottawa, Canada | AFP | Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday an “unidentified object” was shot down over northwestern Canada, one day after US officials said they had shot down a similar object over Alaska. “Canadian and US aircraft were scrambled, and a US F-22 successfully fired at the object,” Trudeau tweeted. I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace. @NORADCommand shot down the object over the Yukon. Canadian and […]
by Anne-Sophie THILL and Justine LEBLOND Agence France-Presse LAVAL, Canada (AFP) — A bus driver rammed his vehicle into a day care center near Montreal Wednesday, killing two four-year-old children in what police believe was a deliberate act. One child died on the scene and another in an ambulance, Canadian authorities said, after several children were trapped under the vehicle when it slammed into the building in the suburb of Laval at around 8:30 am […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A “generational” Arctic blast brought dangerously cold temperatures to swaths of the northeastern United States and Canada on Saturday, with forecasters warning that frostbite can occur in just five minutes. Atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire state, the wind-chill factor reached minus 78 degrees Celsius (minus 108 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight, the National Weather Service (NWS) said. That broke the previous low recorded there of minus 74 C, the […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) – Canada confirmed Monday the purchase of 88 US F-35 fighter jets to replace its aging fleet for 19 billion Canadian dollars (US$14.2 billion), the largest investment in 30 years. The order was announced last March by Ottawa. “As our world grows darker, with Russia’s illegal and unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine, and China’s increasingly assertive behavior in the Indo Pacific, this project has taken on heightened significance,” Defense Minister Anita Anand said. “This […]
A Canadian police officer was killed on Tuesday after being shot while investigating a traffic accident about 100 kilometers south of Toronto, authorities said. “It is with an extremely heavy heart that I regretfully advise that (Ontario Provincial Police) Provincial Constable Grzegorz Pierzchala was killed today while courageously serving in the line of duty,” Commissioner Thomas Carrique said on Twitter. Pierzchala “was investigating a motor vehicle collision when he was shot and killed this afternoon” […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Pulling in an estimated $90 million, “Avatar: The Way of Water” has blown away the competition even as a massive storm kept millions at home over the four-day holiday weekend, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said Monday. The James Cameron sci-fi sequel has now earned 20th Century $287.7 million domestically, becoming the fifth highest-grossing film of 2022. But while analysts said it had exceeded expectations on a storm-depressed weekend, three […]
By: Thomas I. Likness Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Four people are dead after a bus traveling on an icy highway in the southern interior of British Columbia went out of control and rolled. All 53 people aboard the bus were taken to hospital. Thirty-six people suffered injuries ranging from minor to serious. Health officials say eight people remain in hospital. The bus had been en route to Vancouver from Kelowna. Because of the […]
