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Toronto police say they are investigating after an SUV crashed into a pole and three people inside the vehicle fled the scene early Thursday. Police said the crash happened at 4:41 a.m. near Danforth and Carlaw avenues. A black SUV crashed into a pole, police said. Images from the scene …
Read More »A year after the fall of Kabul, Canadian veterans urge Ottawa not to abandon Afghans trying to flee
It’s been one year since Kabul fell to the Taliban after American and allied troops — including Canadians — left the country. Video footage showed Afghans streaming onto the tarmac at the Kabul airport, desperate to escape, as a U.S. air force plane took off. Some fell to their death trying to hold …
Read More »Newcomers get a taste of the home they were forced to flee at National Ukraine Festival
The return of the National Ukrainian Festival in Dauphin offered newcomers displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine a comforting taste of home over the weekend. Lesia Yaroshenko travelled more than 300 kilometres from Winnipeg to attend the event in southwestern Manitoba. Yaroshenko and her sons Hnat, 16, and Vlad, …
Read More »‘Hard to up and leave your home’: More Hay River residents prepare to flee rising water
Since flood waters rose in her community, K’atl’odeeche First Nation Chief April Martel has barely slept except for a 10-minute nap here, an hour there, if she’s lucky. Volunteers are hard at work on the reserve, going door to door to ask residents to leave their homes early, pack the essentials and …
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