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Firefighters are battling a fierce wildfire fuelled by strong winds near Los Angeles. Thousands have fled and more than 130 structures have been destroyed, but firefighters could get a reprieve as winds ease. News Source link
Read More »Sudanese Montrealers grow anxious as Quebec offers no solution to help loved ones flee war
When Sudanese Montrealer Thowiba Mansour found out that the federal government had set up a temporary program to reunite people in the war-torn country with their Canadian families, she was so excited that she couldn’t sleep. “I was very happy, I was just planning how I would get my family …
Read More »‘On the brink’: Airlines flee small cities, cutting key links to rest of the country
From his office overlooking the runway at Gander International Airport, Reg Wright can see all flights in and out of his corner of Newfoundland. But in recent years, those plane spottings have been fewer and farther between. “In Newfoundland, we have a saying called the fisherman’s widow, which is typically …
Read More »Calgary opens evacuation centre for those forced to flee Jasper wildfire
reception centre for those displaced by the Jasper wildfire has been set up in Calgary for an expected 200 evacuees. News Source link
Read More »Toronto police investigating after SUV crashes into pole, 3 people flee – Toronto
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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