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A just-published survey found that nearly three-quarters of 85 local non-profit organizations hired new staff in 2025, a significant dip from one year prior for a sector officials say is facing mounting pressures – including “funding uncertainty.” The survey was released by the Elgin Middlesex Oxford Workforce Planning and Development Board along with Pillar Nonprofit […]

The Pimicikamak Cree Nation First Nation in northern Manitoba has been placed under lockdown following a fatal shooting. Residents urged to stay indoors as RCMP investigate.

WestJet has also begun preparing for a possible disruption by grounding some aircraft to avoid stranding additional passengers and planes.

U.S. government lawyers said in a court filing that information provided since the indictment shows that the damage was the result of a ‘flawed installation by the contractor.’

Hamilton police are looking for 15-year-old Rahziel Martin in connection with a shooting that left two other teens dead in Stoney Creek earlier this week. 

The latest call for locals to get out comes in the Hells Gate area, just downstream of the community of Boston Bar, where the Fraser River’s flow tightens.

The ruling will keep Jongwon Ham at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam, B.C., for at least one year, when the disposition is reviewable.

Saturated ground is no longer absorbing water normally, sending more runoff into drains and contributing to flooded underpasses, sinkholes and washed-out roads, EPCOR said.

Marineland and a consortium of U.S. aquariums helped move the first batch of whales in a long, complex process that began Monday afternoon at the closed tourist attraction.

According to court documents, the employees were abducted at gunpoint, bound and taken to a trailer where they were held for the next 15 hours by the defendants.