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In The News for June 5, 2023: What will the PM have to say to wildfire evacuees?

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Monday, June 5, 2023 ... What we are watching ...

Jun 5, 2023

Trudeau and ministers to provide update as wildfires burn in multiple provinces

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to provide an update on the wildfires that have forced thousands of people from their homes and caused widespread property damage in several provinc...

Jun 5, 2023

What about Kristen, Leslie's rights, asks lawyer for Bernardo victims after transfer

OTTAWA - Paul Bernardo should be returned to a maximum-security prison, the lawyer representing the families of his young murder victims said as he called on the Correctional Service of Canada to be m...

Jun 5, 2023

Union gives failing grade to companies handling veterans rehabilitation contract

OTTAWA - A union representing workers at Veterans Affairs Canada says a deal to privatize rehabilitation services has been a failure. The $570-million contract with Lifemark Health Group and WCG Inter...

Jun 5, 2023

Watchdog's relations with spy community 'particularly strained' over last year

OTTAWA - Newly released documents say the intelligence community's relationship with its key watchdog has been particularly strained over the last year due to a "level of resistance" to scrutiny. The ...

Jun 5, 2023

Fire burned through memories, pieces of history, says owner of Nova Scotia daycare

The owner of a Nova Scotia daycare destroyed as recent wildfires ripped through the province says the flames consumed both her livelihood and a physical piece of twentieth-century history. Among the m...

Jun 5, 2023

B.C.'s Eby says Asia trade mission aims to reduce risks amid international unease

British Columbia Premier David Eby says his trade mission to Asia is part of an effort to grow trade and reduce the risks that come with international uncertainties. The premier and his delegation hav...

Jun 5, 2023

Quebec town devastated by fishing accident that killed local man, four children

Residents of a small northeastern Quebec village are devastated by the news that a local man and two of his children were among five people killed in a weekend fishing mishap, one of the man's relativ...

Jun 4, 2023

Ministers to deliver update as Quebec forest fires continue to burn

MONTREAL - Quebec cabinet ministers are expected to deliver an update this morning on the wildfires raging across far-flung parts of the province, as Canadian Armed Forces members prepare to help figh...

Jun 4, 2023

Innu kids learn from their own as Labrador First Nations take control of schooling

SHESHATSHIU, N.L. - Inside a wide, white canvas tent behind the Sheshatshiu Innu School in Labrador, the first drop of sweet molasses dough falling into a bubbling pan of fat gives off an aroma that p...

Jun 4, 2023