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Author: Mike Hager
Publication Date: August 14, 2025 - 22:18
Vancouver Island fishing hot spot Bamfield grapples with prolonged power outage as wildfire burns
August 14, 2025
The 300 or so year-round residents of Bamfield, B.C., are no strangers to power outages, often forced to go a day or so in the winter without electricity in their craggy hamlet on southwestern Vancouver Island.
But, on Thursday, many locals were on edge during their third day without power, as they sought out gas for generators to keep upward of a thousand tourists comfortable and hundreds of kilograms of salmon they had just caught from rotting.
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The regional agency within the World Health Organization, which covers North and South America, says there has been an exponential rise in measles this year.
August 15, 2025 - 14:45 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
A Federal Court judge has temporarily stopped the deportation of a man from India over Ottawa’s handling of health concerns by his Canadian wife who has ADHD, and financial problems his departure would cause his sister.
Jagjit Singh, a citizen of India, came to Canada in 2021 on a temporary resident visa and made a refugee claim for asylum. While that claim was being processed, he met a Canadian woman, in November 2024, and married her the following January.
The woman, identified only by the initials L.B., in the court decision, submitted a spousal sponsorship for her new husband to...
August 15, 2025 - 14:42 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
Montreal police have opened a criminal investigation into reports that people at a music festival last weekend were allegedly poisoned without their knowledge.Police say six people have reported feeling a “sharp prick” in the back of their body while they were in the crowd at the îLESONIQ music festival at Parc Jean-Drapeau.
August 15, 2025 - 14:36 | | The Globe and Mail
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