The Globe and Mail reported that India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar confirmed he had spoken to Blinken and the U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan about Canadian allegations of New Delhi’s possible involvement in the June killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada.
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The B.C. Wildfire Service says almost 25,000 square kilometres of trees, bush and grassland have burned this year, almost double previous record, while the cost of fighting fires is now at approximately $770 million, reports the CBC.
The national unemployment rate was 5.5 per cent in August, 2023.
- St. John’s, N.L. 6.1 per cent
- Halifax 7.1 per cent
- Moncton, N.B. 5.5 per cent
- Saint John, N.B. 6.2 per cent
- Saguenay, Que. 4.4 per cent
- Quebec City 3.2 per cent
- Sherbrooke, Que. 3.1 per cent
- Trois-Rivières, Que. 4.0 per cent
- Montreal 5.1 per cent
- Gatineau, Que. 4.5 per cent
- Ottawa 4.9 per cent
- Kingston, Ont. 3.9 per cent
- Belleville, Ont. 10.5 per cent
- Peterborough, Ont. 4.0 per cent
- Oshawa, Ont. 5.1 per cent
- Toronto 6.5 per cent
- Hamilton, Ont. 5.3 per cent
- St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. 6.9 per cent
- Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ont. 5.6 per cent
- Brantford, Ont. 4.8 per cent
- Guelph, Ont. 4.2 per cent
- London, Ont. 5.6 per cent
- Windsor, Ont. 5.8 per cent
- Barrie, Ont. 4.5 per cent
- Greater Sudbury, Ont. 4.5 per cent
- Thunder Bay, Ont. 4.6 per cent
- Winnipeg 5.3 per cent
- Regina 5.0 per cent
- Saskatoon 5.4 per cent
- Lethbridge, Alta. 5.5 per cent
- Calgary 5.8 per cent
- Edmonton 6.1 per cent
- Kelowna, B.C. 2.6 per cent
- Abbotsford-Mission, B.C. 6.0 per cent
- Vancouver 5.8 per cent
- Victoria 3.5 per cent
Source » The Canadian Press via the Winnipeg Free Press
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The B.C. Supreme Court has partially certified a class-action lawsuit against Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the maker of Kleenex, after the company produced flushable wipes that were contaminated with bacteria.
Meanwhile, Kimberly-Clark is pulling its consumer facial tissues from Canada.
Roos wasn’t planning to attend his citizenship ceremony over Zoom while wearing his firefighter uniform. But that’s what happened on Monday, while he and his crew were battling B.C.’s devastating wildfires, CBC reports.
Remarks on the wildfires in the Northwest Territories and in British Columbia
Sarah Smellie, Globe and Mail »
Canada’s Heritage Minister redoubled her calls for Meta to end its ban on Canadian news content on Facebook and Instagram on Saturday as thousands of Canadians continued their rush to escape wildfires ravaging British Columbia and the Northwest Territories.
In both a Friday social media post and a Saturday interview with The Canadian Press, Pascale St-Onge said the social media giant is recklessly putting people’s lives at risk by blocking Canadian news articles on its two massive platforms.