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Published July 4, 2023 • read for 3 minutes
An International Longshore and Warehouse Union worker picks up outside the BC Maritime Employers Association Dispatch Center following a 72-hour strike notice and no deal at the negotiating table in Vancouver, Saturday, July 1, 2023. Photo by ETHAN CAIRNS /THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Port strike BC still unresolved
The strike in more than 30 ports in British Columbia enters its fourth day this morning.
Talks between the BC Maritime Employers Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada stalled yesterday.
The employers say the union’s demands fell “beyond any reasonable framework for settlement,” and the union claims the employers “sabotaged the process.”
An important point for the 7,400 striking dock workers appears to be the definition and scope of maintenance work.
Former AFN chief seeks reassignment
The former national head of the Assembly of First Nations wants her job back — and she’s calling on supporters to tell their leaders and councils to make this happen.
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RoseAnne Archibald posted a five-minute video to Facebook Monday from her car in a parking lot on BC’s North Coast.
She said she wants to reinstate her job as national head and members want to ensure that a forensic audit of the national advocacy organization continues.
Archibald claimed that the backlash she received is because she has been fighting corruption in the AFN since October 2020.
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The head of corrections signaled a move by Bernardo
The head of Canada’s federal prison system asked bureaucrats to explain whether they had informed Public Security Minister Marco Mendicino about the transfer of notorious serial killer Paul Bernardo to a medium-security prison.
Documents obtained by The Canadian Press show that Canada’s Correctional Service Commissioner Anne Kelly reported the transfer to Public Safety Canada’s top official, then took action when Mendicino suggested he had not been notified of the move.
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Kelly also emailed Mendicino right after tweeting that the decision was “shocking and incomprehensible,” which he posted a week after she informed his department of the move.
Opposition conservatives have demanded that Mendicino step down as details emerged over the past month about the prison transfer timetable, and who knows what when.
The mayor of Lac-Megantic fears another railway disaster
Ten years after a runaway train in Lac-Megantic, Que.
Mayor Julie Morin says trains carrying things like propane, diesel and sulfuric acid have gotten longer, threatening to once again turn the city center into a mess of charred ruins and twisted metal.
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On July 6, 2013, a train carrying 72 tank cars filled with crude oil derailed in the area and exploded, killing 47 people and destroying entire city blocks.
The wildfire situation in Quebec continues to improve with rain, but risks remain
Quebec’s wildfire prevention agency says recent rains have improved the province’s wildfire situation, but the risk remains high in dry areas along James Bay.
The agency says rain that has fallen in southern and eastern Quebec in recent days has helped contain some fires and contained some others in two small parts of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region and in the northwest of the province.
But it adds that the major fires still burning are huge, including one near the twice-evacuated town of Lebel-sur-Quevillon covering 4,000 square kilometers.
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Nationally, the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center says there are currently 615 active wildfires burning in Canada, of which 320 are considered uncontrollable.
Evacuation warnings end for residents of Kelowna, BC, as wildfire is under control
Evacuation warnings and a local state of emergency caused by a wildfire on Knox Mountain in Kelowna, BC have ended.
A statement from the Central Okanagan Emergency Operations Center says the fire is now under control on 6.5 acres and emergency services are still on the scene managing several hot spots.
Residents of the Poplar Point, Knox Mountain, Magic Estates and Clifton areas near the blaze were issued an evacuation order on Canada Day that was later downgraded to a warning as crews battled the flames
Kelowna RCMP assisted in an evacuation of more than 400 properties.
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This report from The Canadian Press was first published on July 4, 2023.
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