Eight people have been taken to hospital after a mass casualty event at Hollow Water First Nation in Manitoba.
RCMP have released few details but say multiple detachments responded to a serious incident early this morning in the community about 200 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg.
Shared Health Manitoba says two patients were airlifted to hospital in Winnipeg, while six others were taken by ground ambulance.
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The community organization says in a release that its executive committee decided to suspend Walter Mineault due to the complaints and information from the public.
They are among thousands of passengers who faced another day of travel disruptions Monday as Air Canada flight attendants continued to strike despite a return-to-work order from the Canada Industrial Relations Board.
Environment Canada says about 43.2 millimetres of rain fell on Friday at Vancouver's airport, up from the previous record for that date of 26.9 millimetres set in 1912.
The industrial relations board had declared the strike unlawful and ordered it to end after the federal government on Saturday used Section 107 of the Labour Code to force the two sides into binding arbitration.
Shaheer Cassim attended the court virtually from Surrey Pretrial Centre wearing an orange sweatsuit.
Mounties in Agassiz, B.C., say officers responded to the Harrison Lagoon at about 11:20 p.m. on Friday after receiving a report of a possible drowning.