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Conservative MP refusing pay bump was heckled, chastised by his colleagues
The Conservative MP who went public with his intent to refuse a pending parliamentary pay increase was chastised by the party whip in front of his colleagues and heckled as he tried to defend his decision, CBC News has learned. Source link
Military police 'rushed to judgment' before officer's suicide, watchdog finds
Canada’s military police watchdog is sharply criticizing the handling of a sexual assault investigation involving Maj. Cristian Hiestand, an air force officer who took his own life in January 2022. Source link
Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris says big air crash knocked him out, but he's ready for slopestyle
Mark McMorris said he lost consciousness when he fell eight days earlier during training for the contest that opened the action at Livigno Snow Park last week. Source link
Over 30 measles cases and counting from Brandon's Ag Days, chief doctor says
Manitoba’s health system is inundated with surging flu rates and an ongoing measles outbreak, the province’s chief public health officer says. Source link
Canadian speed skater Weidemann posts season-best time but falls short of Olympic 5,000m medal podium
Canadian speed skater Isabelle Weidemann was unable to repeat her 5,000-metre medal performance from the 2022 Olympics on Thursday, placing fifth in the women’s race in Milan. Italy’s Francesca Lollobrigida won to complete the long distance sweep after taking the 3,000 on Saturday. Source link
Gold medallist Breezy Johnson's latest Olympic bling? A sapphire engagement ring
American alpine skier Breezy Johnson gets engaged to boyfriend Connor Watkins at the finish line of the Super-G event on Thursday. Source link
Syria's leader targeted for assassination often, UN report says, as U.S. hands over military base
Syrian government forces have taken control of a base in the east of the country that was run for years by U.S. troops as part of the war against the Islamic State group, the defence ministry said in a statement on Thursday. Source link
Trump border czar says controversial Minneapolis immigration operation to end
The immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to mass detentions, protests and the deaths of two U.S. citizens is nearing an end, U.S. President Donald Trump’s border czar said Thursday. Source link
Canada's Éliot Grondin wins silver medal in Olympic men's snowboard cross
History repeated itself in the men’s Olympic snowboard cross final at the Milano-Cortina Winter Games. Four years after Austria’s Alessandro Haemmerle narrowly beat Canadian Éliot Grondin to the finish line for the gold medal at Beijing 2022, it happened again on Thursday in Italy. Source link
Canadian mining company employees worked amid gunfire, Mexican cartel checkpoints, says family member
Vizsla Silver Corp.’s workers laboured in an environment punctured by gunfire, cartel checkpoints and drones, says the brother of a geologist with the Canadian mining company in Mexico, who was among five people found dead after they were kidnapped by a suspected faction of the Sinaloa cartel. Source link