Calgary Gaza protest ends as university dismantles encampment
Canadian politics and campus protests collide as Calgary faculty dismantle a Gaza solidarity encampment after a tense clash with police amid counter protests. Edmonton and Montreal stories echo campus activism and safety concerns as students push divestment and institutions weigh free speech against disruption.
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Calgary
Danielle Smith
University of Calgary
University of Alberta
Smith
Edmonton
Kahane
West Bank
Gaza
South Africa
St. John’s
Major geomagnetic storm lashes Canada warns space agency
Canada's space weather agency warned of a major geomagnetic storm tied to coronal mass ejections from the sun. The storm threatens power grids satellites and aviation while potentially lighting the northern lights across Canada. Utilities like BC Hydro say they are prepared and may mitigate outages from high voltage transmission disruption.
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Canada
Space Weather Agency
Space Weather Canada
U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
Robyn Fiori
Canadian Hazards Information Service of Natural Resources Canada
Earth
Fiori
CME
Quebec
Hydro
Trial moves to landfill search in Winnipeg killings
The Jeremy Skibicki murder trial heard police searched Winnipeg’s Brady Road landfill for three weeks before locating Rebecca Contors’s partial remains on June 14, 2022. Const. Brian Neumann described the discovery of a torso wrapped in plastic and cloth as he witnessed the on site moment. Contors’s death is part of a string of slayings of Indigenous women linked to biased violence, with two victims’ remains still missing.
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Winnipeg
Jeremy Skibicki
Brian Neumann
Brady Road
Rebecca Contors
Neumann
Skibicki
Contois
Morgan Harris
Marcedes Myran
Mashkode Bizhiki
Ikwe
Buffalo
Crown
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Aramaria Yetman
McGill University
Montreal
Deep Saini
Saini
the Canadian Press
BC Hydro
NASA
Oliver
Daidoonce
the Corporation OF the Municipality OF
Oliver Paipoonge
Chris Bowles
Brittany Hobson
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