Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Matthew Frank
Publication Date: April 20, 2025 - 18:15
Manitoba looks to connect remote communities to power grid
April 20, 2025
A plan by the Manitoba government to connect several northern communities to the province’s power grid addresses some key issues, but might open the door to industrial development that could harm sensitive hunting and fishing grounds in the region, a First Nations leader says.Chief Jonas Michael Sewap of Barren Lands First Nation said he is concerned that construction could lead to mining operations and a permanent road to his community.
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Rahul Ranwa drowned around 3 p.m. last Thursday at the popular beach near UBC. The international student was studying business at Vancouver Community College.
April 21, 2025 - 21:45 | Simon Little | Global News - Canada
Every night since she last spoke with Pope Francis, Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier has unwrapped a ceremonial cloth covering a pair of children’s moccasins and prayed with the little shoes cradled in her arms.A former chief of Okanese First Nation, Ms. Day Walker-Pelletier had presented the moccasins to Francis during an Indigenous delegation to Rome in March, 2022 – a symbol of the children who died attending Catholic-run residential schools. He assured her he would sit and pray with them every day until he could deliver an apology on Canadian soil.
April 21, 2025 - 21:20 | Patrick White, Willow Fiddler, Tavia Grant | The Globe and Mail
The sexual-assault trial of five members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team will begin this week in a courtroom in London, Ont., 15 months after police in this city laid charges.Jury selection will be held Tuesday and the trial is expected to start after that.
April 21, 2025 - 21:04 | Robyn Doolittle, Colin Freeze | The Globe and Mail
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