The Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are asking for the public’s assistance in locating the families of 16 Canadian Army soldiers who went missing during the Korean war in the 1950s.
Day: June 28, 2021
Boston Bruins forward David Pastrnak says his son, Viggo Rohl Pastrnak, has died six days after birth. He did not disclose a cause.
A Canadian woman being held in an ISIS detention camp in northeast Syria has been released with the help of the former U.S. diplomat who helped get her four-year-old daughter out of the camp and to relatives in Canada earlier this year.
Today, Ken Hardie, Member of Parliament for Fleetwood–Port Kells, on behalf of the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, the Honourable Josie Osborne, British Columbia’s Minister of Municipal Affairs, Acting Mayor for the Township of Langley Bob Long, and Lissa Dawn Smith, Acting President, Métis Nation, announced funding to upgrade local infrastructure in Surrey and the Fraser Valley area. They were also accompanied by Member of the B.C. Legislature for Langley East, Megan Dykeman.
The Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia are investing over $13 million in the projects noted below through the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program’s new COVID-19 Community Resilience stream. Canada is contributing over $8 million, and B.C. is contributing more than $5 million. Federal funding is conditional on fulfilling all requirements regarding consultations with Indigenous groups.