Family of Quinte West woman killed by impaired driver kicks off annual MADD campaign
October 30, 2025
Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada launched its 38th annual Red Ribbon national campaign in Bowmanville, Ont., Thursday. The organization was joined by the Durham Regional Police Service and the family of 22-year-old Rebecca Beatty, who was killed by an impaired driver.
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Nearly two decades ago, a cave regarded as a sacred site by the Songhees Nation was destroyed to make way for the Bear Mountain resort development near Victoria. There were no tangible Indigenous artifacts at the site, in an area called Spaet by the Songhees, so the provincial archeologists involved said there was no obligation to preserve it under B.C.’s existing Heritage Conservation Act of 1996.
November 22, 2025 - 08:30 | Frances Bula | The Globe and Mail
One person is dead and two others are injured after they got hit by a REM train on Montreal's South Shore.
November 22, 2025 - 07:29 | | CBC News - Canada
This is from a story about the scalping of British settlers and militia by Mi’kmaq warriors in what became known as the “Dartmouth Massacre” on May 13, 1751, from John Wilson’s eyewitness account: “These Indians chain the unfortunate prisoner to a large thick tree, and bind his hands and his feet, then beginning from the middle of the craneum, they cut quite round towards the neck; this being done, they then tear off the skin, leaving the skull bare; an inflammation quickly follows, the patient fevers, and dies in the most exquisite tortures.”
Wilson’s account is not the only record...
November 22, 2025 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
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