By: Thomas I. LiknessEagle News Service (Eagle News) — A police officer is dead and two others injured following a shooting in the Vancouver area in Western Canada. Police had been trying to execute a search warrant on a residence…
By: Thomas I. LiknessEagle News Service (Eagle News) — Victims of wildfires in western Canada are being targeted by scammers sending out a bogus text message, say the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. “RCMP have received concerns about messages that purport…
By: Thomas I. LiknessEagle News Service (Eagle News) — The wildfire situation in the Canadian province of British Colombia is so severe the province’s premier has declared a provincewide state of emergency. “In just the last hour, we’ve gone from…
By: Thomas I. LiknessEagle News Service (Eagle News) — Wildfires burning in the Northwest Territories in northern Canada have prompted officials to order the evacuation of the capital of the Northwest Territories. All 20,000 residents of Yellowknife have until noon…
By: Thomas I. LiknessEagle News Service (Eagle News) — Dockworkers on Canada’s Pacific coast who had planned to be back on the picket lines Saturday have changed their minds. The workers rejected a tentative deal reached last week that ended…
By: Thomas I. LiknessEagle News Service (Eagle News) — Dockworkers on Canada’s Pacific coast plan to be back on the picket lines this weekend after rejecting a tentative contract settlement Tuesday. The tentative deal ended a 13-day strike which shut…
By: Thomas I. LiknessEagle News Service (Eagle News) — For a second consecutive month, Canada’s central bank has hiked its key interest rate Wednesday by a quarter of a percent to 5.0% in another attempt to cool the economy. Rates…
By: Thomas I. LiknessEagle News Service (Eagle News) — The latest figures from Statistics Canada peg the year-over-year inflation rate in May at 3.4% — the smallest increase since June of 2021. “The slowdown was largely driven by lower year-over-year…
By: Thomas I. LiknessEagle News Service (Eagle News) — Investigators are sifting through what’s left of a military helicopter that crashed northwest of the Canadian capital of Ottawa this week looking for answers. A CH-145F Chinook helicopter crashed into the…
