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Pride 2025: Celebrations happening across Vancouver Island
CHEK
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June 2, 2025
Pride Month is officially underway and organizations across Vancouver Island are celebrating by hosting events open to the public. Ladysmith kicked things off on Sunday, with organizers hosting the town’s second Pride Celebration, featuring food,...
Missing Colwood teen may be travelling between B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan
CHEK
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June 2, 2025
West Shore RCMP has renewed its call for information about a missing teen from Colwood, and says officers believe he may be travelling between B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan. Jaxsen Swain, 15, was last seen on May 17 around 11:30 p.m. near the 300...
Opinion: I’m from Canada. Also Minnesota. It’s tense — but we’re like family.
Star Tribune - Minnesota
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June 2, 2025
Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of guest commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here.Back in 2004, my husband and I began exploring the idea of leaving the Twin Cities and moving to Nanaimo, a city on...
Emerging writers Dora Prieto, Jess Goldman and Phillip Dwight Morgan win $10K RBC Bronwen Wallace Awards The prize recognizes unpublished writers in poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction. Books |1 hour ago
CBC/Radio-Canada
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Dora Prieto, Jess Goldman and Phillip Dwight Morgan were named the winners of this year's $10,000 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for emerging Canadian writers. The prize recognizes emerging Canadian writers for poetry, short fiction and, for the first...
These 3 Quebec summer destinations topped the list of Canadian hotspots (hidden waterfall included)
Time Out
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It’s time to book that bucket list getaway. Sweeping beaches? Lakeside cabins? Rugged cliffs? Thanks to anxiety over crossing the U.S. border, and a slew of new U.S. travel requirements (including the most recent: facial biometrics), many...
Winnipeg-born director wins big at Canadian Screen Awards
Winnipeg Free Press
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June 2, 2025
Matthew Rankin began his speech in Farsi, took a detour into French and wound back toward English when accepting the Canadian Screen Award for achievement in direction Sunday for Universal Language, a feature film set at a dreamy intersection...
Pride Toronto insists it’s ‘full steam ahead’ after corporate sponsors jump ship
Toronto Sun
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June 2, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Toronto & GTA Toronto's Pride Parade winds its way through the city's streets on Sunday, June 25, 2023. Photo by Chris Young /THE CANADIAN PRESS Executive director Kojo Modeste said Pride Toronto is disappointed that two...
'Grand bargain': Alberta Premier Danielle Smith 'encouraged' by federal government's change of tone when it comes to energy
Edmonton Journal
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June 2, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Politics Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she is "encouraged" by the federal government's change of tone when discussing energy. Premier Danielle Smith speaks to reporters during a press conference at the Alberta...
NHL analysts urge Vancouver Canucks to sign $18,000,000 Dallas Stars' forward after J.T. Miller trade
Sportskeeda
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June 2, 2025
The Vancouver Canucks should acquire Dallas Stars forward Mason Marchment, NHL analyst and insider Rick Dhaliwal urges. Dhaliwal made his pitch during the June 2 edition of the Donnie and Dhali show, encouraging the Canucks to make a run at...
Ottawa collects extra $617M from import duties in March
Advisor's Edge
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June 2, 2025
iStock / bruised peach Ottawa collected an extra $617 million in import duties this past March compared to a year earlier as counter-tariffs against U.S. trade restrictions came into effect. The federal government’s latest fiscal monitor report,...
U.S. counter-tariffs help Canada bank $617M more in import duties than last March
The Province
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Breadcrumb Trail Links News Revenues from customs import duties topped $1 billion in March, more than double the figure from a year earlier Author of the article: The Canadian Press Craig Lord Published Jun 02, 2025 • Last updated 4 hours ago • 4...
FSIN disappointed to be left out of meetings between Ottawa, premiers
Saskatoon StarPhoenix
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June 2, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Local News National Saskatchewan The FSIN’s 74 member First Nations were not included in the federal-provincial gathering on Monday in Saskatoon. Prime Minister Mark Carey meets with Canada's premiers during Monday's first...
Vancouver seeks a new way of requiring infrastructure upgrades from developers
The Province
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Breadcrumb Trail Links Real Estate News Local News The intent of the change is to levy developers for municipal infrastructure in a more formula-based way, to avoid drawn-out negotiations A construction crane juts from the fog on a wintry Metro...
Infrastructure design team chosen for major Toronto waterfront project
On-Site
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June 2, 2025
(Image courtesy of Waterfront Toronto) Global professional services company GHD and SLA, a Danish nature-based design studio, have been awarded the role of prime consultant by Waterfront Toronto for phase one of infrastructure and streetscape...
For Canada, The Fairytale ‘Once Upon A Time’ Has Become A ‘Once Upon A Nightmare’ Under British Monarchy Linked PM Mark Carney
Canada Free Press
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We can only hope and pray that Carney is called short in his devious plans for a Canada in Liberal decline Borrowing an iconic line from the age-old Fable of Fairytales, “Once Upon A Time”, Canada was a free and sovereign country, one filled to...
'The Apprentice' film about Donald Trump wins big at Canadian awards: 'He effectively forced the industry to freeze out our film'
Yahoo News - Canada
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June 2, 2025
While the team behind the film The Apprentice, starring Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn, largely went home from U.S. awards shows empty handed, that wasn't the case in Canada. At the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards, the...
OU softball ousted by NiJaree Canady, Texas Tech in WCWS semifinals to end NCAA title run
The Oklahoman
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For the first time since 2019, OU softball's season has ended with a loss. Despite a miraculous seventh-inning, two-run home run from Sooners nine-hole hitter Abigale Dayton to tie the game, Texas Tech walked it off with a sacrifice fly by Lauren...
Cowan: Canadiens should be open to trading one or both of their first-round draft picks
Calgary Sun
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Breadcrumb Trail Links Sports Hockey A look back at players selected by the Canadiens and other NHL teams with 16th and 17th overall picks in the past is revealing. Author of the article: Montreal Gazette Stu Cowan Published Jun 02, 2025 • Last...
Caribbean-Canada leaders dialogue 2025 ‘study tour’ ends on a high note in Dominica
Loop News
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In a fitting close to a transformative week of dialogue, cultural immersion, and policy exchange, Dr. Gerard Jean-Jacques, Ambassador for CARICOM and Commissioner to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), hosted a distinguished...
Can Canada keep claims adjusters from quitting?
Canadian Underwriter
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June 2, 2025
Photo by iStock/Charnchai As labour markets shift, the clock may be ticking on claims professional roles, says a recent report. Claims adjusters, examiners and investigators ranked 12th for the fastest declining jobs by 2030, and 15th for the...