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Eastbound Turcot connections closed on final weekend of October  

Work taking place on the Turcot Interchange this weekend will once again require the closure of multiple ramps. The connections from Highway 15 South and Highway 20 East to downtown will close at midnight Friday Oct. 27 and reopen at 5 a.m. Monday Oct. 30. Eastbound Route 136/Highway 720 will be closed between the Turcot and the Notre Dame/De La Cathedrale Entrance. Crews are building new ramps that will allow drivers using Highway 15 to head west, using ground-level streets at the base of the escarpment. Source link #USA #News Read More  

               

Scientists pleased by ‘good news’ about Alert Arctic climate measurements – Technology & Science  

Emily Chung Scientists say they’re pleased that the federal government has committed to recruiting staff to send up to the Alert Weather Station and restore climate measurements to normal levels by January. The move comes after CBC News reported the measurement cutbacks in Alert, Nunavut, this fall and coming winter. That had researchers concerned about the gaps that would open up in valuable atmospheric, snow and ice data used by scientists around the world for weather and climate forecasting and research. David Grimes, assistant deputy minister of Environment and Climate Read More  

               

Lost hikers found in embrace after ‘sympathetic murder-suicide’  

SAN FRANCISCO — Friends and relatives of a couple whose bodies were found in Joshua Tree National Park say they believe the two got lost while hiking in the sprawling desert park and struggled in the searing heat with little food or water before they died in a “sympathetic murder-suicide.” Rachel Nguyen, 20, and Joseph Orbeso, 22, had been missing for nearly three months after going for a hike in late July and failing to return to their bed-and-breakfast. Their disappearance launched an exhaustive search. Crews spent more than 2,100 Read More  

               

OPP offer up another parking lot for buying, selling to strangers  

Sean Grech, CTV Barrie Published Friday, October 20, 2017 5:34PM EDT Last Updated Friday, October 20, 2017 6:35PM EDT More police stations are offering up space to people who are buying or selling things to strangers. Bracebridge OPP has joined Project Safe Trade, which means residents can use the detachments parking lot. The OPP say it’s a move to help ensure those transaction don’t end in crime. “This will cut down on the occurrences that we have seen across the province where individuals regrettably have been relieved of their money Read More  

               

Community groups want CDN-NDG to get tough with slumlords  

Community groups are calling on the borough of Cote-des-Neiges -NDG to get tough with slumlords. They say housing in the borough has to be safer and healthier, claiming poor housing conditions are causing many health problems, including in young children. According to the Montreal Public Health Department, 38 per cent of rental housing units in CDN- NDG with children six months old to 12 years old had excessive humidity or mould and that can lead to asthma. Cockroaches were found in 23 per cent of homes with children in Cote Read More  

               

Lakeland residents call for crime watch  

Some residents in Saskatchewan’s Lakeland region are calling for a new or revamped crime watch program as frustrations over break-ins, vehicles thefts and other crimes grow in the area. Nearly 150 people, including RCMP, conservation and bylaw officers, gathered in Christopher Lake on Thursday night to discuss ways to curb rural crime in the Lakeland region — Christopher Lake, Emma Lake and Anglin Lake — and the nearby rural municipalities of Paddockwood, Buckland and Meath Park. Elaine McMillan, an organizer of the meeting, said crime has been steady for the Read More  

               

Bringing wild rice back to Lake Simcoe a century after it disappeared  

A century after it disappeared, a small group is trying to reintroduce native wild rice to Lake Simcoe. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry has spent part of the week in a shallow bay near the mouth of the Talbot River. The water here is less than a metre deep, perfect they say for wild rice. “If envisioned what it looked like back then I would look at an areas like Cook’s Bay and see vast areas of beautiful wild rice,” says Wil Wegman. Wegman and his team have Read More  

               

Police trying to locate suspect in armed robbery  

Edmonton police are asking for the public’s help to find a suspect in a weekend robbery and home invasion in the city’s west end. Police said Jason Roberts, 37, was wanted in connection to an armed robbery and home invasion that police said took place Saturday, October 14 in west Edmonton. EPS said Roberts is considered armed and dangerous, and should not be approached – it’s believed he could be in either west or downtown Edmonton. Roberts is described as: 172.5 cm (5’8”) tall 59 kg (130 lbs) Caucasian male Read More  

               

‘We need to find him’: Montreal woman heads to Peru to search for missing son  

A Montreal woman is travelling to Peru to search for her son, who hasn’t been heard from since preparing to embark on a four-day trek in the South American country. Jesse Galganov, 22, has been missing since Sept. 29. He was reportedly last seen that morning checking out of a hostel in the town of Huaraz.  Galganov’s mother, Alisa Clamen, last heard from him via text message on Sept. 28. He had been preparing to go on a long trek and told her he would be unreachable for about four Read More  

               

New sports hijabs hit the hardwood at Winnipeg high school  

Two Muslim high school students are sidelining controversy with an innovative addition to their school basketball uniforms — sports hijabs complete with their team logo. The student-led initiative at Winnipeg’s Dakota Collegiate is believed to be the second of its kind in Canada. Amina Mohamed started bouncing around the idea to seek out a more functional design for her religious headwear after an official called her aside before a game last year. “There was a little controversy about the pin that I usually put in here,” she told CTV Winnipeg, Read More