Category: canada
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Three people including the suspected gunman were killed in a series of shootings early on Monday in the Canadian province of British Columbia, police said. Police said shooting in the city of Langley, a suburb of Vancouver, started around midnight and that four people were shot by what was believed to be a lone male…
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OTTAWA – An acquitted suspect in the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people on board a flight and two baggage handlers at Narita airport was shot dead Thursday in an apparent targeted shooting in westernmost Canada, local media reported. Ripudaman Singh Malik, a one-time supporter of the Sikh separatist Khalistan movement who was in…
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday a proposed freeze on handgun ownership in Canada that would effectively ban their importation and sale, following recent mass shootings in the United States. The bill must still be passed by Parliament, with the ruling Liberals holding only a minority of seats. “We’re introducing legislation to implement a national…
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TORONTO: Toronto police shot and killed a man who was walking down a street carrying a gun in a city neighbourhood on Thursday afternoon, an incident that prompted five nearby schools to be placed under precautionary lockdowns, city officials said. Officers responding to a report of an armed man in the area fired after the…
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TORONTO (AP) — Canada announced Monday it will begin letting fully vaccinated U.S. citizens into Canada on Aug. 9, and those from the rest of the world on Sept. 7. Officials said the 14-day quarantine requirement will be waived as of Aug. 9 for eligible travelers who are currently residing in the United States and…
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The preliminary investigation does not indicate the incident to be criminal in nature. CALGARY: Seven Pakistanis, including four children, died in a Canadian city when their house caught fire. According to the police, the blaze tore through the home in Chestermere, just east of Calgary, at about 2:30am following Canada Day celebrations. Three adults and…
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Dozens of people have died in Canada amid an unprecedented heatwave that has smashed temperature records. More than 230 deaths have been reported in British Columbia since Friday as a historic heat wave brought record-high temperatures, officials said Tuesday. The province’s chief coroner called it an “unprecedented time.” “Since the onset of the heat wave…
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(AFP) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday labeled the killing of four members of a Muslim family, who were run down by a man driving a pick-up truck, as a “terrorist attack,” which he said was carried out with “Islamophobic” intensions. “This killing was no accident. This was a terrorist attack, motivated by hatred,…
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Four members of the -Canadian-Pakistani Muslim family killed after a 20-year-old man drove his truck into them in a hate crime, in Ontario, Canada. A 20-year-old man wearing something like an ‘armour’ fled the scene after the attack, according to foreign news reports. The official later told a news conference that “there is evidence that…
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Canada’s government said that it would temporarily bar passenger flights from India and Pakistan for 30 days starting on Thursday as part of stricter measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said the ban would begin late on Thursday, speaking hours after India reported a global record of more than…