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By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 3, 2024 7:12 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Montreal folk singer Allison Russell has been forced to cancel or postpone some tour dates after being caught in stormy winter weather in Western Canada. Russell, who …
Read More »Canada watchdog probes Ralph Lauren over alleged forced Uyghur labour – National
Ottawa’s corporate-ethics watchdog has announced an investigation into fashion company Ralph Lauren over the alleged use of forced labour in its supply chains, while putting a Toronto-based mining firm on notice. Sheri Meyerhoffer, who is the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise, said it’s not clear whether Ralph Lauren Canada LP …
Read More »Owen Willmore and the London Knights have forced a Game 6
It was a game the London Knights had to win. After goals from four different skaters and 32 saves from St. Thomas, Ont., native Owen Willmore, the OHL Championship series is headed back to Peterborough for a Game 6 on Sunday, May 21. The Knights defeated the Petes 4-1 at …
Read More »Drayton Valley residents forced out by wildfire head to evacuation centre in Edmonton
About 7,000 people who were forced to flee their homes in Drayton Valley, Alta., Thursday faced long waits in their vehicles overnight and on Friday — uncertainty. “The roads were packed,” said Patricia Cotteau. “I took the back way … through Rocky Rapids … 624 to Tomahawk. It was still …
Read More »Senior, 93, forced to sleep in hospital hallway leaves her Edmonton family outraged
It’s been a distressing few days for Carmen Renderos and her family in Edmonton. Last week, her 93-year-old mother, Virginia Chacon, was admitted to the University of Alberta Hospital after a bad fall. “We called the ambulance and we thought she had a fracture or something,” Renderos said. At first, …
Read More »‘A drop in the bucket’: New support for tenants forced from B.C. tower, but is it enough? – BC
Residents of a Vancouver Island apartment complex that’s been declared unsafe to live in for the second time in four years got a small piece of good news Thursday — but some say newly-offered supports won’t go far to helping them out of a crisis. Tenants of RidgeView Place in …
Read More »As inflation persists, Canadians are forced to cut back. How are they saving? – National
It has not been an easy year for Canadians financially. Decades-high inflation and soaring interest rates have led many to take a closer look at their spending habits and, consequently, make some tough choices. On Wednesday, the Bank of Canada hiked its key interest rate for the seventh time in …
Read More »This remote First Nation pays lofty power costs. Forced to use U.S. source, they want to be on Ontario grid
Despite the approaching dusk, there aren’t many lights turned on in Harvey Powassin’s home on Windigo Island, a remote community of about 50 people that is part of Animakee Wa Zhing 37 in northwestern Ontario. As the mercury continues to drop, Powassin is getting ready for the return of winter …
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 »Canada’s weather personalities forced to get ‘comfortable with giving bad news’ amid worsening climate change
Warren Dean recalls feeling helpless as a deadly heat dome hovered over British Columbia last summer. The CTV News weather anchor for Vancouver Island says he and his colleagues tried to hammer home the seriousness of the unprecedented extreme heat event to the public but there were still those who failed to …
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