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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Fire information officer Madison Dahl says the fire is now considered a wildfire of note, but growth was limited overnight as helicopters equipped with night vision dropped water on hot spots and around the fire's perimeter.
The U.S. hit Canada on Friday with a 35 per cent tariff on goods not compliant with the Canada-United States-Mexico agreement on trade, known as CUSMA. Tariff rates for Canadian steel, aluminum and copper are at 50 per cent.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers said Friday that 68.5 per cent of urban mail carriers who voted were against the deal, while their rural and suburban colleagues were 69.4 per cent against.
Dominic Lai, the operations director with Dragon Boat BC, says the city declined to provide permits for 2026 edition of the festival.
RCMP in the community north of Vancouver say they received a call Thursday evening about a hiker who had fallen into Crooked Falls in the Squamish Valley.
Police say emergency responders were called to the scene in Cumberland, B.C., on Thursday afternoon.