Search and rescue mission that began after Wednesday’s crash is called off with one body and additional remains found
Five missing crew members of a Canadian navy helicopter that crashed during a Nato operation this week into the Mediterranean Sea are presumed dead.
A search and rescue mission that began on Wednesday when the aircraft with six crew on board went missing has been turned into a recovery effort, the Canadian defence ministry said in a statement on Friday.
Continue reading...Canadian PM Justin Trudeau announced that assault-style weapons will be banned after the murder of 22 people in the worst mass shooting in the country’s history in Nova Scotia last week. The government gun control campaign had initially been derailed by the coronavirus pandemic
Continue reading...Move comes after murder of 22 people in worst mass shooting in Canada’s history
Canada has banned assault-style weapons following the murder of 22 people in the worst mass shooting in the country’s history, Justin Trudeau announced on Friday.
“These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time. There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada,” said the prime minister. “Effective immediately, it is no longer permitted to buy, sell, transport, import or use military-grade assault weapons in this country.”
Continue reading...French has become a collateral victim of the coronavirus pandemic in Canada, forcing the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, to defend failures to uphold laws requiring labels and services in both official languages.
Canada is officially bilingual, but the government has allowed the sale of imported disinfectants labelled only in English because of “the extreme situation in which we find ourselves”, Trudeau said on Tuesday.
Continue reading...Hardest-hit region in Canada with over 1,600 deaths plans to reopen elementary schools and childcare facilities on 11 May
Justin Trudeau has urged caution as Canada’s most populous provinces announce plans to ease their lockdown measures, highlighting the challenge of balancing public health recommendations with a growing pressure to loosen coronavirus restrictions.
“The measures we’ve taken so far are working. In fact, in many parts of the country the curve has flattened,” Trudeau said on Tuesday. “But we’re not out of the woods yet. We’re in the middle of the most serious public health emergency Canada has ever seen and if we lift measures too quickly, we might lose the progress we’ve made.”
Continue reading...Gabriel Wortman also beat and handcuffed his girlfriend before the shooting, police said, which might have been ‘the catalyst’
The Nova Scotia gunman used his replica police cruiser to flag down motorists before murdering them, and also targeted passersby who offered to help and a lone walker out for a Sunday morning stroll.
Gabriel Wortman – who killed 22 people on Saturday and Sunday – also stole weapons from a police officer he murdered, switched vehicles and changed clothes to elude capture during his 12-hour killing spree.
Continue reading...Residents say emergency alert during shooting spree could have saved lives as gunman drove around the province for over 12 hours
As Canada reels from mass shooting that killed at least 22 people, residents in Nova Scotia have asked why authorities failed to send an emergency alert as a gunman posing as a police officer drove around the province for more than 12 hours.
A week before Canada’s worst-ever mass shooting, all residents of the province received a mobile phone alert asking them to remain at home due to the coronavirus pandemic. Many argue that a similar warning during the shooting spree could have saved lives.
Continue reading...Portraits of those killed emerge while police search 16 crime scenes across Canadian province
Police in Canada have updated the death toll of the country’s worst mass shooting to 22, as more victims from the gun rampage in Nova Scotia were publicly identified.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) had previously warned the death toll would increase as investigators combed through several homes intentionally set ablaze by the gunman in a 12-hour rampage that started late on Saturday in the town of Portapique. On Tuesday, 16 separate crime scenes were being examined across the province.
Continue reading...Eighteen people were murdered in a handful of tightlyknit communities in the hours-long shooting spree
Flags have been lowered to half mast across Canada, as friends and families paid tribute to the victims of the country’s worst ever mass shooting
Related: Nova Scotia shooting death toll rises as Trudeau calls on Canadians to stand united
Continue reading...Gabriel Wortman suspected of shooting spree in the coastal town of Portapique before he died during standoff with police
A gunman in Canada posing as a police officer has killed 16 people after a 12-hour shooting rampage across Nova Scotia in the worst act of mass murder the country has seen in modern times.
Several bodies were found inside and outside one home in the small, rural town of Portapique, police said, and several homes were set on fire. Bodies were found at other locations and one police officer was also among the dead.
Continue reading...When a bear starts feeding off garbage and loses its fear of humans it is quickly shot but an unlikely conservation partnership may be setting a different path
In early April, a young grizzly bear swam through the chilly waters off the western coast of Canada in search of food.
Related: Groggy grizzly bear caught emerging from hibernation in viral video
Continue reading...Prime minister said ‘we’re going to have to remain vigilant’ until vaccine is found as infections climb across the country
Justin Trudeau has warned that Canada’s economic shutdown is likely to remain in place for weeks, as coronavirus infections continue to climb across the country.
“I know people are interested in when things will go back to normal. The reality is, it’s going to be weeks still,” the prime minister said on Tuesday. “It is going to be important to get our economy going – but we’re going to have to remain vigilant until such a time as a vaccine is found.”
Continue reading...Dropping strict control measures could lead to 300,000 deaths, projections show after country’s deadliest day yet
Canada could suffer as many as 22,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, even with strict physical distancing and the widespread closure of businesses and schools, Canadian public health officials have warned.
Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday that he remained confident that Canadians could continue their “disciplined” behaviour, including staying home and practicing social distancing.
Continue reading...US officials had stopped shipment at 3M factory after Trump invoked Defense Production Act to halt exports to Canada and beyond
The Trump administration has agreed a deal with the US manufacturer 3M to import more than 166m respirators from China over the next three months and allow 3M to continue exporting its US-made respirators.
The agreement breaks a deadlock which resulted in Washington stopping nearly three million of the specialized masks from being exported to Ontario, stirring fears that Canada’s most populous province would run out of supplies for medical staff battling coronavirus by the end of the week.
Continue reading...Health officials in Canada’s most populous province say extreme measures have probably prevented far higher death toll
Health officials in Ontario have warned that as many as 15,000 will die from the coronavirus in Canada’s most populous province in the coming months, but said extreme measures already in place have probably saved many more lives.
The province released its coronavirus projections on Friday, as it prepares for a surge in cases that could overwhelm the province’s already-strained healthcare system.
Continue reading...Police in Canada have arrested a suspect in connection with the murders of two Indigenous men gunned down after returning from a hunt in rural Alberta.
Anthony Michael Bilodeau, 31, has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder over the deaths of Jake Sansom, 39, and Morris Cardinal, 57.
Continue reading...Two Métis men were found shot dead in rural Alberta after what police believe was an ambush
Police in Canada are investigating the murders of two Indigenous men who they suspect were ambushed after returning from a successful hunt in rural Alberta.
The bodies of Jake Sansom, 39, and his uncle Morris Cardinal, 57, were found early on 28 March beside Sansom’s pickup truck on a country road near Glendon, a farming town 160 miles north-east of Edmonton. Both had gunshot wounds.
Continue reading...Holding a sign that reads ‘help us’, a Canadian couple are stranded on the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam off the coast of Panama as sickness spreads aboard. Chris and Anna Joiner are among more than 130 passengers stuck onboard the vessel, which has been stranded for days after Chile refused to allow the ship to dock.
Ranger in Canadian Rockies says video she captured was ‘something everybody needed’ in a time of isolation
On a bright spring day, a hulking grizzly bear named Boo emerged from his winter den, shaking a dusting of snow from his thick coat as he looked around groggily.
The moment was filmed in a remarkable viral video – which also captures the elated reaction of one of the bear’s closest humans, the manager of grizzly refuge in the Canadian Rockies.
Continue reading...A hulking grizzly bear has found online stardom after he was caught groggily emerging from hibernation on camera. Canadian ranger Nicole Gagnon filmed the end of Boo's hibernation on her phone, a moment she said she had been waiting to document for eight years. It has since been viewed over 100,000 times on Twitter. Boo, 18, draws thousands of tourists every year to his 20-acre enclosure near the town of Golden, Canada
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