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CBC
8 hours ago
- Climate
- CBC
Gander eager to step up in times of need during fire evacuation, mayor says
It's been twice in a month that Gander has had to step up as a place to house evacuees of wildfires this summer. Mayor Percy Farwell said the town is eager to help wherever possible and are lending a hand to keep things under control following the evacuation from a fire in Musgrave Harbour.
CBS News
20 hours ago
- Politics
- CBS News
Mayor Jacob Frey challenges Minneapolis DFL's endorsement of Omar Fateh in mayoral race
The campaign for Mayor Jacob Frey is challenging the Minneapolis DFL endorsement of his rival, Minnesota Sen. Omar Fateh. According to a news release from Frey's campaign, the challenge was filed with the Minnesota DFL on Monday. The Minneapolis DFL endorsed Fateh at its convention on Saturday. In order to win an endorsement, a candidate must receive 60% of the votes. The Frey campaign said there were an "extraordinarily high number of missing or uncounted votes produced by the highly flawed and untested electronic voting system." "Only 578 votes were recorded in the mayoral ballot conducted using the electronic balloting system, despite the fact that over 1,000 delegates and alternates were checked in at the time of the first ballot," the campaign said in the release. The Frey campaign alleges there's "no plausible reason" why over 20% of the total delegates and alternates would skip voting. The Minnesota DFL said on Monday that it would not comment on the challenge. Fateh said in a post on X Saturday that the endorsement "is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with broken promises, vetoes, and politics as usual." WCCO has reached out to the Fateh campaign for comment.
CBC
a day ago
- Business
- CBC
Forestry sector exploring options after Northern Pulp gives up on new mill: mayor
The new mill would have been near Liverpool, N.S. While the move is a blow to Nova Scotia's forestry sector, Region of Queens Municipality Mayor Scott Christian says the industry has more clarity about a future direction.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass says "I don't think that's a problem" as city lacks permanent fire chief
Six months after deadly wildfires that devastated the Los Angeles area, the city still lacks a permanent fire chief. "I don't think that's a problem," Mayor Karen Bass told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," saying they are conducting a "nationwide search." Solve the daily Crossword
Washington Post
3 days ago
- Politics
- Washington Post
Killings near a West Bank village show even Americans aren't immune
AL-MAZRA'A AL-SHARQIYA, West Bank — The killings of two young men from this village this month, including a 20-year-old American citizen, marked a notable escalation in the battle being waged by Israeli settlers for Palestinian-owned land in the rolling hills of the West Bank. Al-Mazra'a Al-Sharqiya, a picturesque village where most residents are U.S. citizens, had for years escaped the worst of the violence roiling the occupied West Bank. But its residents had watched as settlers toted M-16s and Israeli security forces transformed the neighboring hamlet into what its mayor describes as an 'open-air prison' encircled by barricades and fences.
