Immigration activists rallied Friday outside City Hall, calling for more support for the hundreds of migrants seeking asylum in New York City. CBS2’s Zinnia Maldonado has more.
DELTA, B.C. — BC Ferries has cancelled multiple sailings and delayed several others following a police incident last night aboard a ferry in Nanaimo. It has provided no details about what happened on the Coastal Inspiration, which sails between Duke Point and Tsawwassen, but says availability of crew is a factor in the delays of eight sailings and cancellation of eight others. RCMP Staff Sgt. Gary O'Brien in Nanaimo says police were called at about 9 p.m. Thursday about two men who were behaving
Former President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, also said in a French television interview that Russia was prepared to hold talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy subject to certain conditions. Even before the February invasion, Moscow made clear Ukrainian membership of NATO was unacceptable to it.
Quebec Public Health is encouraging parents at a private daycare in the lower Laurentians to administer preventive antibiotics to their children after one child died and another was hospitalized with a bacterial infection. Myriam Sabourin, a spokesperson with the regional health agency, CISSS des Laurentides, would only confirm that two children were infected by the Kingella kingae bacteria due to patient confidentiality concerns. However, a staff member at the daycare in Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs sa
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia won't allow a pan-European LGBTQ Pride event to take place in Belgrade next month, the president said Saturday, citing threats from right-wing extremists and fears of clashes. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced the decision to cancel the Sept. 12-18 EuroPride celebration during a news conference where he also proposed extending the term of Serbia's prime minister, who identifies as a lesbian. Members of the European Pride Organizers Association chose Serb
New Brunswick kids are starting school restriction-free for the first time in two years. Students start returning to class on Sept. 6, and back-to-school preparations can go back to how they were pre-COVID-19. There are no mask, distancing or cleaning mandates and no outbreak protocols, according to the Department of Education. Students have already had a taste of what that's like last spring, after New Brunswick removed all COVID-19 restrictions in March. The move had parents divided. Some were
Russian visitors have always been kind when eating in his restaurant, says Sergei Farafonov, a chef in the Estonian capital Tallinn.
RCMP are investigating after Fort Chipewyan's century-old Catholic church — one of Alberta's oldest — was destroyed in a suspicious fire early Thursday. The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Roman Catholic Church, about 280 kilometres north of Fort McMurray on the shores of Lake Athabasca, was gutted by the fire. RCMP Cpl. Troy Savinkoff said the cause remains under investigation but arson is suspected. "The circumstances to us, at the onset, are fairly suspicious and we will be working with a fire
Parts of central Mississippi were left submerged by heavy rains on Wednesday as a threat of more flash flooding was expected in the city of Jackson on Thursday and into Friday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service said Friday that it has recovered $286 million in fraudulently obtained pandemic loans and is returning the money to the Small Business Administration. The Secret Service said an investigation initiated by its Orlando office found that alleged conspirators submitted Economic Injury Disaster Loan applications by using fake or stolen employment and personal information and used an online bank, Green Dot, to conceal and move their criminal proceeds. The age
A resident from Six Nations, Ont., the First Nations reserve where a U.S.-based event company held a controversial lantern festival last weekend, says local laws around land use are different than other jurisdictions and need to be respected. "These organizers need to understand Indigenous lands are not to be seen as a wasteland [where] our territories and the safety of our people don't matter," Rick Monture, who is Mohawk with the Turtle clan, told CBC Hamilton on Thursday. The Lights Festival
Nova Scotia-based Innovasea says it has successfully developed technology to instantaneously detect and count fish using underwater cameras, imaging sonar and artificial intelligence — technology that could help prevent fish kills at hydroelectric dams. The prototype was field tested this spring at a Nova Scotia Power hydro dam outside Kentville, N.S., where it counted nearly 900,000 fish during an upstream migration of gaspereau — a species of herring. The aquatic technology company reports the
Even though Roch Fraser is leaving his day job, he says early mornings and busy days are still in his forecast. The longtime CBC Yukon Morning director is retiring after over 20 years as a broadcaster for CBC. He said he'll be sticking around the territory to run his Airbnb, visit with friends and family and go camping. Fraser was raised in Alberta, but by about 14 years old, he had already set his heart on living in the North after reading a Pierre Berton book. "I decided one day that I was goi
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Environment Canada has lifted a severe thunderstorm warning it issued for Halton and Peel on Thursday afternoon. The federal weather agency has also lifted a severe thunderstorm watch for Toronto. People should watch for adverse weather conditions and take necessary safety precautions, the agency warned. Severe thunderstorms are capable of producing strong winds and heavy rain, Environment Canada said. It expects heavy downpours with 70 to 90 km/h wind gusts. On Thursday evening, Environment Can
An interesting thing happened at the Kitchener Public Library in Ontario after overdue fines were eliminated: More people started returning their borrowed items on time. Mary Chevreau, the library's chief executive officer, said when fines were originally introduced, it was to motivate people to bring back their items on time, but now, "it's sort of reverse psychology." "Those who, of course, could afford to not bring them back on time couldn't care less whether they paid the fine or not, and ot
MONTREAL — Quebec's political parties should commit to raising immigration targets if they're elected on Oct. 3, the head of a Montreal business group said Thursday, but he acknowledged that championing immigration has traditionally been a hard sell in the province. Days ahead of the start to Quebec's election campaign, Michel Leblanc, president of the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal, said businesses in the region are struggling to find workers. Labour shortages, he added, are forci
ATLANTA (AP) — The prosecutor investigating whether Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking to compel testimony from more allies of the former president, including former chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Sidney Powell. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed petitions Thursday seeking to have Meadows and Powell, as well as James “Phil” Waldron, who met with Meadows, and former Trump campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn, testify befo
Wearing a jerk vest and ready to be pulled through the air on ropes for a stunts course, Dan McMaster eagerly volunteers to go first. They've been the first to volunteer for every class exercise over the past three months. "I wanted to get everything that I could out of it. Whatever it is, anytime anybody needs a volunteer, go first," McMaster said. McMaster is one of 15 students in the Counting Coup Indigenous Film Academy at Old Sun Community College in Siksika Nation, southeast of Calgary. Th
Before life as he knew it turned upside down with the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, Mohammad Fahim Rahmani worked with the Canadian embassy. Now, he's being told to pack his things, move to a Toronto shelter and apply for social assistance. That's because, nearly a year after he set foot in Canada, the support he and his family received through the federal Resettlement Assistance Program is coming to an end — even as his parents' permanent residence paperwork languish in the processing queue
Ontario's COVID-19 Science Advisory Table issued a statement saying it will be dissolved on Sept. 6. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the group isn't being dissolved, it's being transferred under Public Health Ontario's jurisdiction.
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