Alberta, Ottawa spending $7 million to fund six new urban wildfire teams
May 23, 2025
Nearly $7 million in provincial and federal spending will create six teams of urban wildfire crews, Alberta’s public safety minister announced Friday.Speaking in Strathmore, Alta., Mike Ellis told a news conference that having six more teams means Alberta will have up to eight specialized crews that can respond to fires threatening communities.
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Good morning. Ahead of Father’s Day, we take a look at the dads who want a more equal version of parenting to go viral. More on that below, plus renewed calls for a Gaza ceasefire and updates on wildfire evacuees. But first:Today’s headlinesIsrael attacks Iran’s nuclear facilities and kills its top military leadersAs Canada prepares for G7 leaders to meet this weekend, it must reckon with a series of unknowns The government House leader told a Liberal MP to shelve a motion on honorary citizenship for Jimmy LaiA Mississauga dentist has been identified as a Canadian killed when an Air...
June 13, 2025 - 06:55 | Dave McGinn | The Globe and Mail
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June 13, 2025 - 06:31 | Arno Kopecky | Walrus
Since the turn of the millennium, Karen Solie has been the coolest of cool new things in Canadian poetry—a mysterious figure, everywhere and nowhere at once. Everywhere because her books have received almost universal acclaim. And nowhere because, for all their hints of hard living and their undercurrent of despair, her poems divulge little of the author herself. But time happens to the best of us. Her first book, Short Haul Engine, was published in 2001—nearly a quarter century ago. Now Solie is pushing sixty, and I feel old.
Born in 1966, Solie is roughly the same age as...
June 13, 2025 - 06:30 | Nicholas Bradley | Walrus
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