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One of Canada's most scenic highways has reopened as the wildfire in Jasper National Park continues to be held.

Jane Park, incident commander with Parks Canada, says Highway 93, also known as the Icefields Parkway, is now open to through traffic.

But she warns travellers must head straight through the mountain- and glacier-lined road without stopping.

She says there are no services available on the highway between the town of Jasper and the Icefields Discovery Centre and Saskatchewan River Crossing, a stretch of about 150 kilometres.

The federal government is intervening in a countrywide work stoppage at Canada's two biggest railways, but railworkers are pushing back against Ottawa's move to get them back on the job.

In the culmination of months of increasingly bitter negotiations, Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. locked out 9,300 engineers, conductors and yard workers in the early hours of Thursday.

Here are the latest developments on the rail stoppage (all times are ET):

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The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference says it has taken down picket lines at Canadian National Railway Co. and its workers will begin returning to work on Friday.

However, the union says the work stoppage at Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. remains ongoing pending an order from the Canada Industrial Relations Board.

Following months of increasingly fraught contract talks, Canada's two biggest railways both locked out workers after failing to reach deals with the union by a Thursday deadline.

The Winnipeg Police Service says that several Jewish organizations have received threats similar to those made across the country in recent days.

Several organizations in cities including Ottawa, Montreal, and Calgary had received threatening messages on the morning of Wednesday,  August 21, 2024. The RCMP provided a national precautionary statement regarding threatening emails sent from an unknown source to many institutions, including Synagogues across Canada.

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The Winnipeg Goldeyes (49-40) lost a close affair Thursday evening, dropping the series finale to the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks 4-3 at Newman Outdoor Field.
 
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After leading early, the Goldeyes missed opportunities to keep pace with the RedHawks (49-41), as they lost the series and are now a full game back of first place in the West Division.

Canada's two biggest railways say they’re preparing to get trains back on track after Ottawa intervened to end an unprecedented labour impasse that disrupted business across the country and cancelled commutes for thousands.

Canadian National Railway Co., in a statement Thursday, said it has ended the lockout of workers that began earlier in the day.

The move came shortly after Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon said he has asked the Canada Industrial Relations Board to impose binding arbitration to end the dispute and get the trains running.

Mounties say they are responding to additional bomb threats made across Canada today that they believe are linked to similar threats made the day before. 

RCMP say they responded to the threats alongside local police at synagogues, museums, malls, ports, art galleries and more.

RCMP say they are working closely with domestic and international police to identify who may be involved in the threats, and that they will provide an update on their investigation when it can. 

Winnipeg police and fire crews are on scene at a Winnipeg Walmart on Thursday morning after a man who was kicked out of the store returned and tried to set fire to it.

Witnesses say that the man was at the front of the store on the corner of Lakewood Boulevard and Fermor Avenue trying to steal items when security confronted him. He began to scream at security and as he was removed and threatened that he would return to burn the store down.