A ministry spokesperson says that the government is finishing up the report and that it needs a “thorough analysis. A group of coroners who looked into deaths last year suggested that the B.C. government look into the possibility of giving out air conditioners during heat waves. However, the deadline for that review has passed. The…
Byron Miller found the fishermen who put the bottle in the water in July 2016 by using social media Recently, Byron Miller was walking on a beach in the Bahamas when he saw something. He was thinking about something. The vacationer from Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, said, “It can’t be another note in a bottle.”…
At least half of the 27,000 claims made in 2022 were for the battery metal Ruth Veinotte has lived in New Ross, Nova Scotia, for as long as she can remember, and she has seen many different gold prospectors come and go. The woman who has lived in Lunenburg County for 67 years says that…
A coroner is looking into the death of a 1-month-old twin, and the second twin has been sent to Winnipeg A family in Sanirajak, Nunavut, is sad because their one-month-old died because they had to wait too long to get medical care. Rita Javagiaq gave birth to twin boys on January 26. A few weeks…
The application deadline has passed, but CEGEPs say work is just getting started As they start to sort through applications for the fall 2024 semester, the heads of English-language CEGEPs say that new language laws are causing chaos and confusion. “It’s very, very frustrating,” said Diane Gauvin, who runs the largest CEGEP in Quebec, Dawson…
AvalancheCanada says it has no plans to regulate access to the backcountry The deaths of three people in an avalanche in the Interior of British Columbia have shown how dangerous backcountry skiing can be. Weather forecasters have also warned that conditions this season are especially dangerous. The RCMP said that the avalanche carried away the…
People who listen to Daybreak North share their best pictures of snow piles in their communities When Mike Hochaka woke up in Prince George, B.C., and saw that more than 30 centimeters of snow had fallen, he only had one thought: “Get out there and do it.” “It” was making a huge snowman that he…
Community groups and people in the province say it’s a big loss Since 2007, Lex Edmunds has been going to Saskatoon. When the Two Spirits and the transgender USask student first came out as different genders, they felt safe there. “But now, our facilitator tells us that there won’t be any more meetings about gender…
Two noise complaints have been made by a family whose home backs up to a clearcut Even though officials from the City of Ottawa are looking into dozens of hectares that have been cleared-cut without a permit in the future suburb of Tewin, one neighbor says that loud work is still being done overnight behind…
Work is being done on Old Mill Drive to fix a “serious health and safety risk. The City of Toronto has started a delicate rescue operation in the west end that will cost taxpayers $9 million to get a boring machine out of the ground that got stuck last year when sewer work went wrong…