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Canada News Advisory for Thursday, Jan. 5

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January 5, 2023

Canada News Advisory for Thursday Jan. 5

Here are the latest Canada News stories from The Canadian Press. All times are Eastern unless otherwise stated. Coverage plans are included when available. Entries are subject to change as news develops.

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TOP HEADLINES:

Sunwing issues apology after travel disruptions

Saskatchewan travel agents could lose thousands

Body found near Roxham Road crossing in Quebec

Scientists watch for COVID variants in plane waste

No charges a year after conversion therapy banned

IIHF prez optimistic about Hockey Canada’s future

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Sunwing issues apology after travel disruptions

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Sunwing has issued an apology to passengers left stranded after winter storms upended operations but says “most of our customers enjoyed their holidays with minimal disruption.” By Brett Bundale. Wire: Business. Photos: 1

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Scientists watch for COVID variants in plane waste

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada — As Canadian public health officials question China’s transparency in sharing its COVID-19 surveillance information, scientists are stepping up airplane wastewater testing to try to get an early warning of potential new variants. By Nicole Ireland. Wire: Lifestyle.

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Family of Montreal man killed in jail seeks probe

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada — The family of a man who died after an altercation with guards at a Montreal jail while he was being unlawfully detained is demanding an inquiry. Wire: National. Photos: 1

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Fundraising venues must be public: Elections Cda

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Ottawa, , — Elections Canada says registered political parties cannot avoid listing their cash-for-access event locations Wire: National. Photos: 1

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No charges a year after conversion therapy banned

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Ottawa, , — Gemma Hickey says when they were in their teens, they went to a faith-based conversion therapy practitioner who had them pray and read literature to try to make them heterosexual. By David Fraser. Wire: National. Photos: 1

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Will provinces keep up with demand for child care?

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Ottawa, , — Nour Alideeb and her partner are trying to decide what to do with the hundreds of dollars they’re now saving on child care for their two-year-old son. By Nojoud Al Mallees. Wire: National. Photos: 1

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Buyout of Jasper Park backcountry lodges welcomed

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Environmental groups are welcoming Parks Canada’s buyout of two businesses in Jasper National Park’s Tonquin Valley, a scenic destination also used by vanishing caribou herds.

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N.B. man who killed three Mounties files appeal

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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada — A New Brunswick man who fatally shot three Mounties in 2014 has applied to the province’s highest court to have his precedent-setting 75-year parole ineligibility period reduced to 25 years. Wire: Atlantic, National. Photos: 1

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N.S. chief notes ‘shock’ of Black woman’s arrest

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Halifax, , — Halifax’s police chief says he thinks a Black woman who was mistakenly surrounded by police cruisers and arrested late at night likely experienced a “shock.” Wire: Atlantic. Photos: 2

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Woman accused of faking deaths pleads not guilty

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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada — A woman accused of faking her death and that of her son before crossing the border into the United States has pleaded not guilty to the charges she faces in Canada. By Kelly Geraldine Malone. Wire: Prairies/BC. Photos: 1

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2 of 3 recent deaths in New Tecumseth homicides

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Ontario Provincial Police say two of three deaths following a house fire in the Town of New Tecumseth are now considered homicides. Wire: Ontario/Quebec.

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Three victims of fatal Hamilton fire identified

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A Hamilton school says two students and their mother were among the four people who died in a house fire in the city last week. Wire: Ontario/Quebec. Photos: 1

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December home sales down 48% from last year: TRREB

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada — The Greater Toronto Area capped off a tumultuous year with its ninth straight month of declining home prices and almost half the sales seen a year ago. By Tara Deschamps. Wire: Business. Photos: 1

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CIBC agrees to settle overtime class-action case

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada — CIBC has agreed to pay a total of $153 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed more than a decade ago over the bank’s overtime policies, lawyers for the plaintiffs say. Wire: Business. Photos: 1

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Don’t neglect bonds for 2023, experts say

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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada — Bond portfolios took a beating in 2022 as interest rates climbed, but experts say investors shouldn’t neglect bonds this year as the Bank of Canada nears the end of its rate hike cycle. By Craig Wong. Wire: Business. Photos: 1

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Canada posts $41M trade deficit for November

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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada — Canada’s merchandise trade balance slipped into a small deficit in November as energy exports fell amid lower prices, Statistics Canada said Thursday. Wire: Business. Photos: 1

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Cosby doc spotlights role of community in healing

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada — Though it may be called “The Case Against Cosby,” a new documentary soon to premiere on CBC TV focuses more on some of the women who came forward with allegations against the comedian — and what it takes for them to heal from lasting trauma. By Nicole Thompson. Wire: Entertainment. Photos: 1

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Hockey fans celebrate world junior championship

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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — Capping off a year that saw Hockey Canada mired in scandal over its handling of sexual assault allegations, the world junior hockey championship in Halifax and Moncton, N.B., opened last month under a cloud. By Lyndsay Armstrong. Wire: Atlantic, Sports. Photos: 1

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IIHF prez optimistic about Hockey Canada’s future

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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — International Ice Hockey Federation president Luc Tardif says Hockey Canada’s new board of directors should be given a chance to fix the scandal-plagued organization. By Joshua Clipperton. Wire: Sports. Photos: 1

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In The Rings: Plans underway for curling PA

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A new quadrennial has done little to improve the often perplexing elite curling scene. A sport that still clings to amateur roots despite a growing shift to professional status seems stunted by a lack of unity among the various power brokers. By Gregory Strong. Wire: Sports. Photos: 1

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COMING LATER:

VANCOUVER — Renowned Hong Kong composer Joseph Koo has died in Vancouver. The Canadian Press will have a story.

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LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE STORIES:

The LJI is a federally funded program to add coverage in under-covered areas or on under-covered issues. This content is delivered on the CP wire in the “Y” or spare news category, or you can register to access it at https://lji-ijl.ca. This content is created and submitted by participating publishers and is not edited by The Canadian Press. Please credit stories to the reporter, their media outlet and the Local Journalism Initiative. Questions should be directed to LJI supervising editor Amy Logan at amy.logan@thecanadianpress.com. Below is a sample of the dozens of stories moved daily:

Rally to be held in support of prisoners as Kingston-area guard faces trial

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A demonstration is planned outside of Napanee Superior Court on Thursday morning as a correctional services officer faces trial for a 2012 assault. The inmate, Christophe Lewis, was finally able to retrieve video of the incident with help from legal counsel and community support in 2021. 700 words. Owen Fullerton/YGK News

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Winnipegger pounding the streets to try to identify ‘Buffalo Woman’

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For weeks, Darryl Contois has been out on the cold streets of Winnipeg working to put a face and a name to a woman police believe fell victim to an alleged serial killer, and hoping to bring some closure to a grieving family. 650 words. PHOTO. Dave Baxter/Winnipeg Sun

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Canada’s top CEOs make 243 times more than the average worker: report

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The average pay of Canada’s top 100 CEOs hit an all-time high in 2021, making the wage gap between CEOs and workers bigger than it’s ever been, according to a new report. 850 words. Natasha Bulowski/Canada’s National Observer

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Suspicious deaths of two N.S. men were the result of homicide, suicide: RCMP

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September 16, 2024

Anne Joseph

Nova Scotia RCMP say their investigation into two suspicious deaths earlier this month has concluded that one man died by homicide and the other by suicide.

The bodies of two men, aged 40 and 73, were found in a home in Windsor, N.S., on Sept. 3.

Police say the province’s medical examiner determined the 40-year-old man was killed and the 73-year-old man killed himself.

They say the two men were members of the same family.

No arrests or charges are anticipated, and the names of the deceased will not be released.

RCMP say they will not be releasing any further details out of respect for the family.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 16, 2024.

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Turning the tide: Quebec premier visits Cree Nation displaced by hydro project in 70s

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4 hours ago

September 16, 2024

Anne Joseph

For the first time in their history, members of the Cree community of Nemaska received a visit from a sitting Quebec premier on Sunday and were able to share first-hand the story of how they were displaced by a hydroelectric project in the 1970s.

François Legault was greeted in Nemaska by men and women who arrived by canoe to re-enact the founding of their new village in the Eeyou Istchee James Bay region, in northern Quebec, 47 years ago. The community was forced in the early 1970s to move from its original location because members were told it would be flooded as part of the Nottaway-Broadback-Rupert hydro project.

The reservoir was ultimately constructed elsewhere, but by then the members of the village had already left for other places, abandoning their homes and many of their belongings in the process.

George Wapachee, co-author of the book “Going Home,” said community members were “relocated for nothing.”

“We didn’t know what the rights were, or who to turn to,” he said in an interview. “That turned us into refugees and we were forced to abandon the life we knew.”

Nemaska’s story illustrates the challenges Legault’s government faces as it looks to build new dams to meet the province’s power needs, which are anticipated to double by 2050. Legault has promised that any new projects will be developed in partnership with Indigenous people and have “social acceptability,” but experts say that’s easier said than done.

François Bouffard, an associate professor of electrical engineering at McGill University, said the earlier era of hydro projects were developed without any consideration for the Indigenous inhabitants living nearby.

“We live in a much different world now,” he said. “Any kind of hydro development, no matter where in Quebec, will require true consent and partnership from Indigenous communities.” Those groups likely want to be treated as stakeholders, he added.

Securing wider social acceptability for projects that significantly change the landscape — as hydro dams often do — is also “a big ask,” he said. The government, Bouchard added, will likely focus on boosting capacity in its existing dams, or building installations that run off river flow and don’t require flooding large swaths of land to create reservoirs.

Louis Beaumier, executive director of the Trottier Energy Institute at Polytechnique Montreal, said Legault’s visit to Nemaska represents a desire for reconciliation with Indigenous people who were traumatized by the way earlier projects were carried about.

Any new projects will need the consent of local First Nations, Beaumier said, adding that its easier to get their blessing for wind power projects compared to dams, because they’re less destructive to the environment and easier around which to structure a partnership agreement.

Beaumier added that he believes it will be nearly impossible to get the public — Indigenous or not — to agree to “the destruction of a river” for a new dam, noting that in recent decades people have come to recognize rivers as the “unique, irreplaceable riches” that they are.

Legault’s visit to northern Quebec came on Sept. 15, when the community gathers every year to remember the founding of the “New Nemaska,” on the shores of Lake Champion in the heart of the boreal forest, some 1,500 kilometres from Montreal. Nemaska Chief Clarence Jolly said the community invited Legault to a traditional feast on Sunday, and planned to present him with Wapachee’s book and tell him their stories.

The book, published in 2022 along with Susan Marshall, is filled with stories of Nemaska community members. Leaving behind sewing machines and hunting dogs, they were initially sent to two different villages, Wapachee said.

In their new homes, several of them were forced to live in “deplorable conditions,” and some were physically and verbally abused, he said. The new village of Nemaska was only built a few years later, in 1977.

“At this time, families were losing their children to prison-schools,” he said, in reference to the residential school system. “Imagine the burden of losing your community as well.”

Thomas Jolly, a former chief, said he was 15 years old when he was forced to leave his village with all his belongings in a single bag.

Meeting Legault was important “because have to recognize what happened and we have to talk about the repercussions that the relocation had on people,” he said, adding that those effects are still felt today.

Earlier Sunday, Legault was in the Cree community of Eastmain, where he participated in the official renaming of a hydro complex in honour of former premier Bernard Landry. At the event, Legault said he would follow the example of his late predecessor, who oversaw the signing of the historic “Paix des Braves” agreement between the Quebec government and the Cree in 2002.

He said there is “significant potential” in Eeyou Istchee James Bay, both in increasing the capacity of its large dams and in developing wind power projects.

“Obviously, we will do that with the Cree,” he said.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 16, 2024.

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Quebec premier visits Cree community displaced by hydro project in 1970s

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6 hours ago

September 16, 2024

Anne Joseph

NEMASKA – For the first time in their history, members of the Cree community of Nemaska received a visit from a sitting Quebec premier on Sunday and were able to share first-hand the story of how they were displaced by a hydroelectric project in the 1970s.

François Legault was greeted in Nemaska by men and women who arrived by canoe to re-enact the founding of their new village in the Eeyou Istchee James Bay region, in northern Quebec, 47 years ago. The community was forced in the early 1970s to move from their original location because they were told it would be flooded as part of the Nottaway-Broadback-Rupert hydro project.

The reservoir was ultimately constructed elsewhere, but by then the members of the village had already left for other places, abandoning their homes and many of their belongings in the process.

George Wapachee, co-author of the book “Going Home,” said community members were “relocated for nothing.”

“We didn’t know what the rights were, or who to turn to,” he said in an interview. “That turned us into refugees and we were forced to abandon the life we knew.”

The book, published in 2022 by Wapachee and Susan Marshall, is filled with stories of Cree community members. Leaving behind sewing machines and hunting dogs, they were initially sent to two different villages, 100 and 300 kilometres away, Wapachee said.

“At this time, families were losing their children to prison-schools,” he said, in reference to the residential school system. “Imagine the burden of losing your community as well.”

Legault’s visit came on Sept. 15, when the community gathers every year to remember the founding of the “New Nemaska,” on the shores of Lake Champion in the heart of the boreal forest, some 1,500 kilometres from Montreal. Nemaska Chief Clarence Jolly said the community invited Legault to a traditional feast on Sunday, and planned to present him with Wapachee’s book and tell him their stories.

Thomas Jolly, a former chief, said he was 15 years old when he was forced to leave his village with all his belongings in a single bag.

Earlier Sunday, Legault had been in the Cree community of Eastmain, where he participated in the official renaming of a hydro dam in honour of former premier Bernard Landry.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 16, 2024.

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