Author: The Canadian Post
A Via Rail passenger train derailed in Quebec’s Bas-Saint-Laurent region early Monday after striking two semi-trailers fouling the track, but none of the 114 passengers, 12 crew members or four people with the trucks was injured, and travellers were sheltered at a local hall before continuing by bus. 1:26 a.m. at Mile 11.92 The Transportation Safety Board of Canada and CN police are investigating after a passenger train with more than 100 people aboard hit two truck trailers and derailed northeast of Quebec City. Via Rail train 14, the Ocean, was travelling east from Montreal to Halifax when it struck…
Peel Regional Police have arrested a 43-year-old man at Toronto Pearson airport as he arrived from Dubai, the latest arrest in Project 24K, the investigation into the April 2023 theft of 400 kilograms of gold and $2.5 million in cash — the largest gold heist in Canadian history. An arrest at the scene of the crime Peel Regional Police say another suspect has been arrested in the theft of more than $20 million in gold and $2.5 million in cash from Toronto’s Pearson airport in 2023. Arsalan Chaudhary, 43, of no fixed address, was arrested at the airport on Monday…
Seven Canadian Armed Forces members have arrived in Pimicikamak Cree Nation to assess a water treatment plant knocked out for two weeks by a power outage that froze pipes and backed up sewage across the northern Manitoba community, where about 4,000 residents remain evacuated. First job: the water plant The chief of a Manitoba First Nation in the throes of severe water problems says seven members of the Canadian Armed Forces have now arrived to help. Pimicikamak Cree Nation Chief David Monias said the military members on the ground will first be tasked with assessing one of the community’s water…
A Charter challenge to British Columbia’s policy of letting publicly funded faith-based hospitals refuse medical assistance in dying on site opened in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday, in a case plaintiffs say is about patients forced to transfer, in pain, to die elsewhere. Sam O’Neill’s last ride The B.C. Supreme Court has begun hearing a case that questions whether faith-based, publicly funded hospitals have the right to refuse certain procedures on the basis of their religious beliefs. Dying With Dignity Canada is part of a group of plaintiffs bringing the Charter challenge against the B.C. government, Vancouver Coastal Health and…
Canada is unlikely to win full removal of China’s tariffs on canola, pork and seafood during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to Beijing this week, senior officials say, but relief could come soon in the first prime ministerial trip to China in more than eight years. Progress, not a full peace Federal officials briefing reporters ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to China say there might be relief coming soon on Chinese tariffs — but not a total end to the dispute with Beijing. Carney is scheduled to leave Tuesday for a three-day visit to Beijing, the first by…
U.S. preclearance operations in Canada “remain a critical component” of Washington’s border strategy, the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa says, pushing back on Ambassador Pete Hoekstra’s suggestion the program could be rethought as Canadian travel south drops — and two expansion projects are set to proceed this year. The embassy pushes back Canada and the United States say two preclearance projects that would let more travellers be screened well in advance of crossing the border are set to proceed this year, after months of planning and a season of doubt. The assurances follow comments by U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra that cast…
Eight Canadian Armed Forces members are to arrive in Pimicikamak Cree Nation on Monday to help assess and repair water and electrical systems shattered by a days-long power outage, Chief David Monias says, while about 4,000 evacuees remain unable to return to the northern Manitoba community. Help on the way The chief of a Manitoba First Nation in the throes of severe water problems — flooding homes and backed-up sewage among them — says eight members of the Canadian Armed Forces are to arrive in his northern community on Monday. Pimicikamak Cree Nation Chief David Monias said in a social…
“Food noise” is the relentless, intrusive preoccupation with food that many people living with obesity describe, and the term has spread alongside GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic, which act on hunger signals in the brain and gut and leave many users saying the mental chatter finally quiets. A term that came from patients Before Brenda Rogers started taking Ozempic in the spring of 2023, she did not realize how much “food noise” was sapping her mental energy. “You’re just constantly thinking about food and not having enough, having too much, ‘what am I gonna eat? Oh, don’t add in the…
Uber Canada is urging its Halifax drivers to flood regional councillors with complaints before a Tuesday vote on licensing changes that would make ride-hailing drivers file background checks and training records with the municipality, and pay new fees the company calls redundant and costly. What staff proposed Uber Canada doubled down Jan. 9 on its bid to stop the Halifax region from imposing new licensing requirements on ride-hailing, issuing a statement through spokesperson Keerthana Rang that encouraged drivers to contact their regional councillors ahead of the Jan. 13 council meeting. The fight is over a staff report to council recommending…
Dalhousie University researchers in Nova Scotia say drones could spray wild blueberry fields as effectively as ground rigs while saving crops and fertilizer, but federal rules block almost all pesticide use by drone: Health Canada says only seven products carry labels allowing application by remotely piloted aircraft. Spraying without the tracks On a December day in Truro, a drone glided across farmland and, at a robotic prompt to “enable spraying,” opened two nozzles and released a vortex of liquid — water that day, coloured dyes on others. Chloe Toombs, a master’s candidate in Dalhousie University’s faculty of agriculture, hopes that…
