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A look at the contamination and cleanup of N.W.T.'s Giant Mine
YELLOWKNIFE - Cleanup on one of the biggest environmental messes in Canadian history is underway at the Giant Mine in the Northwest Territories. Here are some facts about the gold mine and efforts to ...
Sep 28, 2022
'Every one of us was a Mahsa': Iranians in Canada cut hair at women's rights rallies
OTTAWA - Azin Rezaeian kneels on the ground and screams "Say her name" each time she snips off a chunk of her long black hair. A crowd around her shouts back "Mahsa Amini," the 22-year-old woman whose...
Sep 28, 2022
'Contaminated': $1-billion cleanup underway at notorious N.W.T. gold mine
YELLOWKNIFE - Just outside this northern capital, on a small hill within eyeshot of its skyline, sit 365 sea cans sealed off behind a high wire fence, the surrounding roads regularly watered to settle...
Sep 28, 2022
Gold, arsenic and murder: A look at the complex history of N.W.T.'s Giant Mine
YELLOWKNIFE - A team working to address environmental and health effects from a former gold mine outside Yellowknife has provided an update on the effort to clean up one of the most contaminated place...
Sep 28, 2022
Big numbers: Remediation of Giant Mine a cleanup on a vast scale
YELLOWKNIFE - The scale of the cleanup required at the Giant Mine almost beggars belief. Eight open mine pits. Six tailings ponds. About 100 buildings, many laced with asbestos. Untold tonnes of rusti...
Sep 28, 2022
Gov. Gen. Mary Simon visiting Saskatchewan First Nation grieving stabbing deaths
JAMES SMITH CREE NATION, SASK. - Gov. Gen. Mary Simon is to visit the Saskatchewan community today that is grieving the deaths of loved ones from a stabbing rampage earlier this month. A release from ...
Sep 28, 2022
UN food chief warns Horn of Africa famine imminent, if global crises left unchecked
OTTAWA - The head of the World Food Program is urging countries to follow Canada in trying to avert a looming famine in East Africa, which he warns could get even worse due to sanctions against Russia...
Sep 28, 2022
Front companies being used to launder illicit cannabis cash: intelligence agency
OTTAWA - Canada's financial intelligence agency says a wide range of businesses - from food wholesalers to electronics repair services - are being used to disguise the proceeds of illicit cannabis ope...
Sep 28, 2022
Quebec's 'post-COVID' election campaign has few mentions of deaths, emergency powers
MONTREAL - The French phrase "bain de foule" appears regularly on the agendas of Quebec's major party leaders during the provincial election campaign. The term, which directly translates into English ...
Sep 28, 2022
Hurricane Ian nears Florida coast, threatening floods, winds
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Florida residents rushed to board up their homes, stash precious belongings on upper floors and flee from oncoming Hurricane Ian, fearing the monstrous storm that knocked o...
Sep 28, 2022
