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Port Colborne and Sherkston Shores ramp up security after last year's Canada Day chaos
Pelham Today
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To avoid a repeat of troubling scenes, including armed individuals and traffic gridlock, Port Colborne is tightening access controls around its busiest vacation spot In response to tumultuous events during the 2024 Canada Day weekend at Sun...
Illegal to cross international Chilkoot Trail: Canada and U.S. border patrols
Yukon News - Alaska
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June 9, 2025
Canada Border Services Agency and U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirm travellers must stay on either side of the Canada-United States border while trekking historic hiking path in Yukon and Alaska While both sides of the Chilkoot Trail have...
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How Canada’s G7 invite to Modi shows India is too big to ignore
Firstpost
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June 9, 2025
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi steps onto Canadian soil to attend the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, later this month, it will be much more than a high-profile diplomatic engagement. It will be a powerful statement of India’s growing...
3 Canadian Bank Stocks Worth Buying With $15,000 Right Now
The Motley Fool Canada
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June 9, 2025
Home » Investing » 3 Canadian Bank Stocks Worth Buying With $15,000 Right Now For investors looking to put $15,000 to work, I think these are the top three Canadian bank stocks worth owning heading into an uncertain environment moving forward....
Air quality alert issued for Maine's southwest coast due to Canadian wildfires
News Center Maine
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June 9, 2025
Children, older adults, and people with respiratory or heart conditions such as asthma or COPD may begin to experience health effects, according to officials. PORTLAND, Maine — Air quality across parts of Maine has deteriorated due to an incoming...
Oxford, CT REIT, Canadian Tire plan $200M Canada Square reno
Real Estate News Exchange (RENX)
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Canada Square and the Eglinton subway station entrance on Yonge St., in Toronto. (Courtesy Oxford, CT REIT) Oxford Properties Group and CT REIT (CRT-UN-T) are embarking on a “transformative investment” to renovate and retrofit Canadian Tire...
Scaling Climate Solutions: GCIC announces 7th annual symposium on innovation for greater impact
Business and Financial Times
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June 9, 2025
The Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC) announces the 7th edition of its flagship symposium, Incubating Climate Innovation 2025, scheduled to take place on Thursday, 12th June 2025, at the Marriott Hotel, Accra. Held under the theme “Building...
'General acceptance': A year of banning cellphones in Canadian classrooms
Edmonton Journal
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June 9, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News Author of the article: The Canadian Press Fakiha Baig Published Jun 09, 2025 • Last updated 4 hours ago • 3 minute read Last fall, most Canadian provinces introduced policies to limit cellphone use in...
Wildfire smoke from Canada continues to choke U.S. cities as climate patterns worsen
Environmental Health News
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June 9, 2025
A blanket of smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted into the U.S. Midwest this week, signaling another season of toxic air driven by rising global temperatures. Scott Neuman reports for NPR. In short: More than 200 wildfires are currently burning...
'Sounding the alarm' — Farm workers union takes Health Canada to court over pesticide safety
Windsor Star
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June 9, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Local News Derek Johnstone, special assistant to the national president of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW Canada), is shown at the Agriculture Workers Support Centre in Leamington on Sunday, June 8, 2025. Photo...
'General acceptance': A year of banning cellphones in Canada's classrooms
Canada's National Observer
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June 9, 2025
Sixteen-year-old Roha Akram was skeptical when teachers in Calgary announced a cellphone ban during the first assembly of the school year. "I was like, 'No one's going to follow this,'" the Grade 11 student recalled of the change in September....
Cellphone ban in Canadian classrooms now accepted (Canada)
Castanet Kamloops
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June 9, 2025
Photo: The Canadian Press A 12-year-old boy plays with his personal phone outside school in Barcelona, Spain, on June 17, 2024. Sixteen-year-old Roha Akram was skeptical when teachers in Calgary announced a cellphone ban during the first assembly...
Swift Current's air quality rated as very high risk
Swift Current Online
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June 10, 2025
Heavy smoke has drifted back into southwestern Saskatchewan. Environment and Climate Change Canada issued an air quality warning for the region Tuesday morning due to the wildfire smoke meandering in from Alberta and British Columbia. Christy...
Atlantic Canada the happiest place to be a worker, survey says
The Chronicle Herald
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Workers in Atlantic Canada are the happiest in the country, says the ADP Canada Happiness@Work index. Atlantic Canadian workers had a score of 7/10 in the most recent version of the regularly tabulated index. “This places the region at the top of...
Record-breaking heat across southern B.C
Wild 104.7
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June 10, 2025
Several communities across southern British Columbia, including Cranbrook, recorded new daily maximum temperature records on Monday, June 9, amid a late-spring heat wave sweeping the province. According to Environment and Climate Change Canada...
Can one bill really unite 13 markets and fix labour mobility across Canada?
Wealth Professional Canada
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According to the government, the bill is a “top priority” and aims to shift the federal project review process from deciding whether to build, to determining how to build. Under the new “one project, one review” model, the federal cabinet would...
Alarm sounded over effort to redefine PFAS chemicals
The New Lede - Washington D.C.
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June 10, 2025
Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). Efforts by an international chemistry industry group to create a new, narrower definition for PFAS chemicals appear to be politically motivated, and could lead to weaker regulations of...
Special Air Quality Statement resumes in Strathmore
Strathmore Now
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June 10, 2025
A Special Air Quality Statement was issued for Wheatland County, the second alert in the last week. The statement was released on Tuesday (June 10). According to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), wildfire smoke is expected to cause...
Windy weekend for southwest
Swift Current Online
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June 10, 2025
Wind gusts in parts of southwestern Saskatchewan flirted with the triple-digit mark over the weekend. Maple Creek recorded a wind gust on Saturday peaking at 96 kilometres per hour according to Environment and Climate Change Canada data. Swift...
B.C. hires ex-minister and former union head to advise on labour negotiations
Salmon Arm Observer
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With collective bargaining underway on 182 labour agreements in B.C.'s public sector, the province has hired George Heyman, the former head of the B.C. General Employees Union (BCGEU) and the former environment and climate change minister, to...