Strathmore

An echoing peal of cannon fire signalled the start of a moment of silence in St. John's, N.L., and throngs of people along the city's two main downtown streets fell quiet and bowed their heads.

Canadians gathered Monday in cities and towns across the country to honour the sacrifice of men and women in uniform who gave their lives in service of the country's values and principles.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Gov. Gen. Mary Simon paid their respects in a Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. 

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.”

In honour of veterans, the Town of Strathmore will lower flags to half-mast for Remembrance Day.

According to the town, the Municipal Building and the Strathmore Fire Department will have their flags lowered from sunrise to sunset on Monday (Nov. 11) to pay tribute to veterans who have made the ultimate sacrifice.

"Please join us as we pause to honour the memory of all Canadians who have served their country," wrote the town on its Facebook page.

The Royal Canadian Legion in Strathmore will host its Remembrance Day ceremony on Monday morning at 10:30 a.m.

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 Strathmore Fire Department announced the final numbers for the Fire Prevention Month home inspection program.

According to the organization, firefighters checked out around 215 homes in Strathmore in October completing free home inspections and answering questions about fire safety. Staff also discovered over 30 detectors were not working.

"These detectors were replaced with functioning detectors by the crews," says the department in a Facebook post.

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.

Chestermere-Strathmore MLA Chantelle de Jonge will travel to Anchorage, Alaska to discuss Alberta's economic trade corridors and supply chains with United States officials.

According to a news release from the Alberta government, Shane Getson, parliamentary secretary for Economic Corridor Development, and Chelsea Petrovic, MLA for Livingstone-Macleod will join de Jonge at the PNWER Economic Leadership Forum starting November 12.

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.