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The July 2023 crash that killed Abbey Bickell occurred at the intersection of Hastings Street and Willingdon Avenue. It’s been 420 days since 22-year-old Abbey Bickell was killed in a car crash in Burnaby, a stretch full of heartbreak for her family as they not only grieved her death, but anxiously waited for progress in the police investigation. Wednesday, they …

https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.666.0_en.html#goog_1291949937 A dirt path leads to a now dismantled Abbotsford homeless camp. And not far from the garbage and discarded needles, there are flowers. They mark the place where Brianna MacDonald, who had just turned 13, died last month of a suspected overdose. “In a tent, by herself. I think it’s the hardest thing to stomach,” said her mom, Sarah …

Calgarians and area residents kept their water use in check for a second day in a row, building momentum on some good news that repair work could be finished ahead of schedule. Residents and businesses used 484 million litres of water on Wednesday, up from the 481 million litres used on Tuesday. If water usage is kept under 485 million …

https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.666.0_en.html#goog_1918227726 A federal public service union is now encouraging its members to “buy local” and support neighbourhood businesses, one day after a social media post suggested federal workers boycott downtown Ottawa businesses in an apparent retaliation for the return-to-office mandate. “The confusion and controversy that the post stirred is regrettable,” PSAC national executive vice president Alex Silas told Newstalk 580 …

ABUJA, Nigeria –  Severe flooding in northeastern Nigeria has left 30 people dead and affected more than a million others, authorities said on Wednesday. The collapse of a major dam in the state of Borno on Tuesday caused some of the state’s worst flooding since the same dam collapsed 30 years ago, and prompted many residents to flee their homes. …

BRISTOL, Pa. – The presidential debate this week was the final affront to Rosie Torres’ lifelong Republicanism. She said her allegiance to Donald Trump, already strained by his stand on abortion, snapped in the former U.S. president’s “eye opener” encounter with Kamala Harris. It’s time to put “country before party,” Torres, 60, said Wednesday in Bristol, a riverfront town in suburban …

VIENNA, Austria –  Austrian security forces carried out raids against 72 alleged Islamic extremists this week ahead of the 23th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the United States, citing the potential for copycat violence on the date of the plane hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people. The raids occurred across the European country on Tuesday, before Wednesday’s anniversary, because …

https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.666.0_en.html#goog_379622011 Rich countries have several hundred million doses of vaccines that could help fight an mpox outbreak in Africa, where donated shots fall far short of what is needed, according to a Reuters tally of public statements, documents and estimates from non-governmental organizations. The shots have been stockpiled for years by countries such as Japan, the United States and Canada …

https://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.666.0_en.html#goog_883388734 PARIS –  Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is getting its bells back, just in time for the medieval landmark’s reopening following a devastating 2019 fire. A convoy of trucks bearing eight restored bells — the heaviest of which weighs more than 4 tons — pulled into the huge worksite surrounding the monument Thursday on an island in the Seine …

WARSAW –  U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is wrapping up a three-nation, Ukraine-focused European tour in Poland after hearing repeated appeals from Ukrainian officials to use western-supplied weaponry for long-range strikes inside Russia. Blinken travelled to Warsaw on Thursday after spending a day in Kyiv with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy during which they pledged to bring the Ukrainian …