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Sarah Byron was shocked to learn her Canadian passport will soon be useless to enter the United Kingdom. As a dual British Canadian citizen living in Montreal who emigrated to Canada in the 1970s, she has regularly travelled back to England at least once a year. But under new U.K. …
Read More »Thieves stole 100,000 organic eggs off a trailer in Pennsylvania. Police are scrambling
Police are scrambling. They can’t crack the case. It’s a Grade A mystery. But hopefully they catch whoever poached the eggs. OK, that’s out of our systems. Police in Pennsylvania are investigating after someone stole 100,000 organic eggs valued at about $40,000 US ($57,000 Cdn), off the back of a distribution trailer …
Read More »Jasper wildfire: Hundreds of foreign workers left scrambling to make work and living arrangements
It didn’t take long for Namneet Singh to find full-time employment again, after a fire in Jasper, Alta., last week destroyed the hotel he had worked at for more than a year. Singh, who was among hundreds of temporary foreign workers earning a living in the picturesque Rocky Mountain town, …
Read More »Manitoba’s cut to youth summer job program leaves some groups scrambling – Winnipeg
The Manitoba government said it was open to discussions Tuesday after facing criticism for cutting support to a major summer job program. The NDP government, elected in October, has reduced funding to the Green Team program this year by $4 million, to $5.6 million. The program helps non-profits, municipalities and …
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