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How 1.5 billion barrels of oil went up in smoke: FP Video explains
This week FP Video looks at Agnico Eagle’s Arctic mines, how first-time homebuyers are entering the housing market through cottage country , Big Six bank earnings (and what they mean for the Canadian economy) and the heavy toll the U.S.-Iran war has taken on oil production . How Agnico Eagle is tapping the Arctic for…
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Flood warnings, evacuation alerts due to snowmelt in southeastern B.C.
Flood alerts remain in place for much of B.C.’s Southern Interior, with over 150 properties under evacuation alert as a result.
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Communities in eastern Ontario, western Quebec lose power following strong winds Friday night
Crews have been working throughout Saturday to restore power to communities across eastern Ontario and western Quebec following strong winds the night before.
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‘You really want to go to war with us?’: Lobster dealer’s intimidation trial hears evidence
The trial of lobster dealer Eric David Thibault, 66, in provincial court in Digby, N.S., heard a short recording of a confrontation in November 2024 involving another dealer, Geoffrey Jobert.
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Wildfires are destroying trees faster than we are replacing them
Canada is losing trees faster than nature can grow them or people can plant them. A northern Manitoba tree-planting program is trying to replace trees destroyed by wildfires, but the cancellation of the federal Two Billion Trees Program is making that more challenging.
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These young people see bright future in trades but say stigma among obstacles in their way
Amid rising apprenticeship registrations and new funding to recruit more tradespeople, there’s been an uptick of interest in skilled trades. Yet the path isn’t always straightforward. Experts buoyed by the current spotlight want sound decision-making to turn young Canadians’ curiosity into careers.
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‘He was a changed person’: Clinton Ellison, survivor of N.S. mass shooting, dead at 52
Ellison’s family says his mental health never recovered after witnessing the 2020 tragedy, which claimed the life of his brother.
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Lenient’: No jail for Tunisian national for ‘cruel’ violent domestic assault
A Tunisian national living in Quebec has received a conditional discharge and three years’ probation for a violent domestic assault and subsequent harassment, in a sentence the judge admitted was “lenient” and unlikely to satisfy the victim. Mohamed Aziz Ben Ishak, who had arrived in Canada a year earlier as a temporary resident, attacked Fatma…
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Thousands are now Canadians under new citizenship law. Half of them are Americans
Thousands of people around the world have received Canadian citizenship certificates as a result of a change late last year to federal law. Half of them Americans.