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Families and business owners in Abbotsford, B.C., are being shaken by a rise in extortion-related threats, which police say are becoming more frequent and violent. One victim told CBC News they’ve been facing extortion threats for months, often being woken up at night with dozens of phone calls with no …
Read More »U.S. military kills 11 in strike on alleged drug boat leaving Venezuela, Trump says
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. has carried out a military strike in the southern Caribbean against what he said was a drug-carrying vessel operated by the Tren de Aragua gang that departed from Venezuela. The president said in a Truth Social social media post that 11 people were …
Read More »Canada’s envoy for combatting antisemitism leaving post early
Canada’s special official for fighting antisemitism announced on Thursday that she is retiring her post, three months before the end of her term. Deborah Lyons served as Canada’s special envoy on preserving Holocaust remembrance and combatting antisemitism since October 2023, and was set to serve until this October. In a …
Read More »Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron leaving band after 27 years
After nearly three decades, Pearl Jam’s drummer Matt Cameron says he is stepping down from the band. “Much love and respect to Jeff [Ament], Ed [Vedder], Mike [McCready] and Stone [Gossard] for inviting me into the band in 1998 and for giving me the opportunity of a lifetime, filled with …
Read More »‘So much more positive’: Leaving downtown to use a homeless shelter gave this woman hope
Calgary officials are trying to make the city feel safer by testing the idea of small, daytime homeless shelters in the suburbs. For Kim Richards, that approach was exactly what she needed. The former small-business owner says she was stuck deep in grief and drug addiction, drawn into a negative …
Read More »Alberta judge calls for changes after man kills wife days after leaving mental health centre
WARNING: This story contains discussions of suicide. An Alberta judge is making 14 recommendations for RCMP and the provincial government after scrutinizing the case of a young mother who was killed by her husband, less than two weeks after he was discharged from a mental health centre. Brett Fenton stabbed and strangled …
Read More »Driver rams car into crowd in Mannheim, Germany, leaving 1 person dead, others wounded
One person was killed and others injured when a car rammed into a crowd Monday in western Germany, police said. A suspect is in custody. Police in the city of Mannheim asked the public to stay away from the downtown area and keep inside their homes. Other details were not …
Read More »Trans families consider leaving U.S. after Trump’s re-election
Barbara Fowler has a go bag in the trunk of her car. In it are her family’s documents, burner phones, clothes, medications and an address of a house in Canada — ready, should her family need to flee their country. Fowler lives in the United States. Her daughter is one …
Read More »Autism Speaks is leaving Canada. Is that a good thing?
Some Canadians are celebrating a major autism organization’s decision to pull out of the country, highlighting a shift in the way people think about autism. Autism Speaks quietly announced last month that it will end its Canadian operations on Jan. 31. “The intentional decision to conclude was not taken lightly and has …
Read More »Brazil’s coast is eroding faster than ever, leaving homes in ruin
Sonia Ferreira’s two-story house with a pool and garden on the Brazilian coast was yet another casualty of the advancing waves of the Atlantic Ocean, pushed higher by climate change. On a recent visit, the 80-year-old retiree glanced around the mound of rubble left from the home she abandoned before …
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