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In the news today: Canada sending official to emergency meeting on Haiti crisis

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Canada to attend emergency meeting on Haiti Canada is sending an official to at...

Mar 11, 2024

'Clean slate' to reshape B.C. wine industry, after climate-related catastrophes

The heart of British Columbia's wine industry is reeling after suffering a litany of climate-related hits, resulting in two years of crop losses in the southern Interior. Record-breaking heat. Wildfir...

Mar 11, 2024

Families who rescued loved ones from Gaza feel 'scammed' by Canadian government

The young woman's first real hope that she might survive the nightmare she endured in the Gaza Strip came on the same night she was sure that she and her family would be killed. Late last year, Canada...

Mar 11, 2024

Mourning and worry cast pall over Ramadan this year for many Muslim Canadians

Ramadan is usually a joyful time at Reem Sultan's home, but not this year. The London, Ont., resident, one of hundreds of thousands of Canadians preparing to mark the most sacred month in the Muslim c...

Mar 10, 2024

Canada's UN ambassador set to attend emergency meeting to discuss crisis in Haiti

OTTAWA - Canada is planning to send an official to an emergency meeting about Haiti that is called for tomorrow. A spokesperson for the foreign affairs minister's office says Bob Rae, Canada's ambassa...

Mar 10, 2024

Father left to pick up the pieces after entire family killed in mass stabbing

OTTAWA - Dhanushka Wickramasinghe thought his days of living alone in Ottawa were behind him. His home in the suburb of Barrhaven would be quiet when he got back from work a bit shy of 11 p.m., but th...

Mar 10, 2024

Most of Canada loses an hour of sleep as clocks spring forward for daylight time

Did you remember to set your clocks ahead an hour before going to bed last night? The seasonal tradition of "springing forward" meant most people in Canada moved their clocks an hour forward, switchin...

Sheldon Spackman Mar 10, 2024

New Brunswick volunteers build flying telescope to see total eclipse above the clouds

HALIFAX - Early next month, millions of Canadians will gaze skyward to witness a total solar eclipse. But some stand to be disappointed as clouds get in the way. David Hunter plans to have an unobstru...

Mar 10, 2024

Rising water: Quebec lender ending new mortgages in flood zones 'just the beginning'

MONTREAL - Nearly five years after floods raced through hundreds of Quebec communities and forced thousands from their homes, a major lender's decision to stop issuing new mortgages in flood zones is ...

Mar 10, 2024

Luxury sweet treat from Quebec included in gift bags for Oscar nominees

MONTREAL - Some of Hollywood's top actors and directors are getting a treat made exclusively in Quebec to sweeten their Oscar night victories - or make bitter losses a little easier to swallow. Sagar,...

Mar 10, 2024