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Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Canada Border Services Agency says the Chief Mountain port of entry will be open for the summer season on May 15 through Sept. 30. The international border crossing is located along Highway 6 in Alberta on the boundary of Waterton Lakes …
Read More »Ukraine hits Russian oil-loading port, ‘shadow fleet’ tankers
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Ukraine on Sunday launched a wave of strikes against Russian oil targets, hitting a key loading …
Read More »Russian port of Tuapse attacked by Ukrainian drones for 4th time
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Another Ukrainian drone strike on Russia’s Black Sea port of Tuapse — the fourth in recent …
Read More »Ukrainian drone damages Russian Black Sea port ahead of U.S.-brokered peace talks
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A Ukrainian drone strike ignited fires at one of Russia’s Black Sea ports, officials said on …
Read More »Port Alberni RCMP investigating 3 suspicious deaths in B.C. city in 9 days
First, a fatal house fire. Then, a fiery car containing human remains. And most recently, a fatal assault. Three people have died in Port Alberni, B.C., within a nine-day period in early August, each of them under circumstances RCMP are investigating as suspicious. The deaths — along with the limited information released about …
Read More »Port Sudan airstrikes cause explosions, put humanitarian aid deliveries at risk
Explosions and fires rocked Sudan’s wartime capital Port Sudan on Tuesday, a witness said, part of a days-long drone assault that has torched the country’s biggest fuel depots and damaged its primary gateway for humanitarian aid. The strikes included an unmanned aerial vehicle attack by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces …
Read More »Iran president visits injured, calls for probe into port explosion that killed dozens
Iran’s president on Sunday visited those injured in a huge explosion that rocked one of the Islamic Republic’s main ports, a facility purportedly linked to an earlier delivery of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant. The visit by President Masoud Pezeshkian came as the death toll from Saturday’s …
Read More »At least 4 killed, hundreds injured, after explosion at Iranian port, state TV says
A massive explosion and fire rocked a port in southern Iran on Saturday, killing at least four people and injuring more than 500 others, state television reported. The blast happened at the Shahid Rajaei port just outside Bandar Abbas, a major facility for container shipments for the Islamic Republic that …
Read More »Federal Court rejects environmentalists’ bid to halt B.C. port expansion
A Federal Court judge has thrown out a legal challenge by environmental groups that claimed allowing the expansion of a massive container facility on British Columbia’s waterfront would threaten the survival of southern resident killer whales and salmon. The David Suzuki Foundation, the Georgia Strait Alliance, the Raincoast Conservation Foundation …
Read More »The bright lights in Port de Grave mean more than Christmas. They’re also about memory and loss
Now in its 26th year, the Port de Grave boat lighting has become a Christmas tradition that draws hundreds of people to the community in Newfoundland’s Conception Bay. (Submitted by Joshua Anstey) On a twinkling wharf in a small Newfoundland town, a crowd of about 100 people stopped singing and …
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