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Former B.C. judge Randall (Bud) Wong remembers getting out of bed early one morning when he was five to greet his uncle at the train station in Vancouver at the end of the Second World War in 1945.

His uncle Delbert Yen Chow was returning from India after years of service as an infantryman.

“I remember very vividly my uncle coming off the train, and he was wearing his army uniform and knapsack,” said Wong, 83. 

“We were so happy to see him that we took him home, and then he came to live with us.”

Canadian Army veterans are healing their psychological wounds with some help from equine friends.

Since starting equine therapy last June, Christian has regularly visited Mirabel's Equi-Sens stable, about 33 kilometres north of Montreal, to see the horse that has helped him “to be at peace.”

Nutrien’s third quarter earnings were down 70 per cent, from $82 million at the end of September last year to $25 million this year. The company’s third-quarter report says the earnings are lower mostly because of lower potash selling prices globally and retail earnings. However, sales volumes for the third quarter and the first nine months of the year were the highest on record. Sales volumes for potash topped over 11.1 million tonnes in the first three quarters of the year, compared to over 9.9 million tonnes for the same time period last year.

Applause erupted over and over at the Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg Sunday as the son of Murray Sinclair, a former judge, senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools, spoke about his father.

Niigaan Sinclair said his dad "was a first" in every room he walked into.

"It was impossible to go through a mall without 17 people, two of them he'd sentenced to jail at one point, coming up to him and saying how much they appreciated him," Niigaan Sinclair said.

The Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) has announced a new partnership with the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (JSGS) aimed at enhancing municipal governance and sustainability efforts across Saskatchewan. On November 7, representatives from both organizations will gather at SUMA’s office to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) solidifying this collaboration. SUMA’s CEO, Jean-Marc Nadeau, and Dr. Jim Farney, Director of JSGS at the University of Regina campus, will be in attendance to formalize the agreement.

A labour dispute continues to paralyze cargo shipping at British Columbia ports, and the union for locked-out workers is accusing employers of abruptly ending contract talks early.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Local 514 says the BC Maritime Employers Association ended federally mandated talks with a mediator less than an hour after they began late Saturday afternoon.

The employers association said in an evening statement each side met separately with a mediator in Vancouver, but that there was "no progress made."

British Columbia's Ministry of Health says the first suspected human case of bird flu contracted in Canada has been detected in B.C. 

A statement from the office of the provincial health officer says a teenager in the region covered by Fraser Health tested positive for bird flu, and the teen is currently getting treatment at BC Children's Hospital. 

The statement says the positive test was done by the BC Centre for Disease Control, and samples are on their way to Winnipeg's national microbiology lab for confirmatory testing.

As temperatures drop and heating systems kick into high gear, the Government of Saskatchewan has designated the first week of November as Carbon Monoxide (CO) Awareness Week to help protect residents from the dangers of this invisible, odourless gas.

RCMP have apprehended a man who has hit 17 Tim Hortons restaurants including muiltiple locations in the southwest with break and enters since June.

Joshua Elliot Moose was taken into custody in White City on October 31, 2024, by the RCMP Southern Alberta Crime Reduction Unit, with assistance from the RCMP Regina General Investigation Section.

The 25-year-old has broken into Tim Hortons locations in Swift Current, Maple Creek, Kindersley, Saskatoon, and Indian Head.

Contract negotiations resume today in Vancouver in a labour dispute that has paralyzed container cargo shipping at British Columbia's ports since Monday. 

The BC Maritime Employers Association and International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514 are scheduled to meet for the next three days in mediated talks to try to break a deadlock in negotiations.

The union, which represents more than 700 longshore supervisors at ports, including Vancouver, Prince Rupert and Nanaimo, has been without a contract since March last year.