Unpublished Newswire
Residents in Ontario’s Municipality of South Bruce narrowly voted in favor of hosting a nuclear waste disposal site in a referendum completed on Monday.Unofficial results published Monday evening by Simply Voting, an online voting platform, reported that of the 3,130 votes case, 51.2% voted in favor, while 48.8% were opposed.The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), a non-profit organization representing major nuclear power generation utilities, has been hunting since 2010 for a site to store spent fuel from nuclear power reactors. Known as a deep geological repository, or DGR,...
October 28, 2024 - 22:28 | Matthew McClearn | The Globe and Mail
Henrickson was a 17-year-old girl from Squamish who went missing after a house party on Bowen Island, during the then unusually warm summer of 2009.
October 28, 2024 - 22:26 | Mina Kerr-Lazenby | CTV News - Canada
A slim majority of voters in the Municipality of South Bruce say they're open to the idea of Canada's spent nuclear fuel being permanently entombed hundreds of metres below their community.
October 28, 2024 - 22:12 | | CBC News - Canada
Saskatchewan residents took their final opportunity to vote Monday in what has shaped up to be the most tightly contested provincial election in nearly two decades.After the dissolution of Scott Moe’s government earlier this month, the gap between his Saskatchewan Party and Carla Beck’s New Democrats has contracted significantly over a 27-day campaign period, according to independent polling by several agencies.Polls closed Monday at 8 p.m. CST, but results are not expected until the wee hours of Tuesday, the province’s electoral office said. Early voting last week amounted to 273,010,...
October 28, 2024 - 22:09 | Temur Durrani | The Globe and Mail
The BC NDP will form the province’s next government after a final tally of votes, but whether it is a majority or minority will depend on judicial recounts in at least one riding after an election night that produced no clear winner.At the conclusion of final counts on Monday, the NDP was leading or elected in 47 seats to the Conservatives’ 44, while the Greens held two. In the legislature, 47 seats are needed to form a majority government.
October 28, 2024 - 21:52 | Andrea Woo, Mike Hager | The Globe and Mail
A young Toronto Maple Leafs fan has caught the attention of the NHL with his Halloween costume this year. With the help of his dad, Grayson Haire, of Trenton, Ont., will wear a 3D version of an Upper Deck MVP Auston Matthews hockey card.
October 28, 2024 - 21:44 | | CBC News - Ottawa
