WorldJun 12, 2025
Family says Canadian dentist was aboard Air India flight that crashed after takeoff
The family of a dentist from Mississauga, Ont., says she is the Canadian citizen believed to be on an Air India flight that crashed shortly after takeoff on Thursday.The husband of Nirali Sureshkumar Patel confirmed she was among the 240 passengers on the London-bound flight.
Patel's dental clinic referred The Canadian Press to the husband, who said that he was in the process of booking travel to India for himself and the couple's one-year-old child. He declined to provide his full name and said he wasn't in a state to speak further.
The plane crashed in a residential area of India's northwest
BCJun 12, 2025
Abbotsford businessman Satwinder Sharma shot and killed in Surrey
A man was killed in a shooting incident in Surrey in broad daylight on Wednesday.
Police have not confirmed the identity of the deceased, but information on social media and Connect FM's conversation with sources have revealed that 57-year-old businessman Satwinder Sharma, a resident of Abbotsford, was the victim of the incident.
Satwinder Sharma had been living in Canada for more than three decades. Officers were called to a business near 84 Avenue and 160 Street at around 3:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Surrey police said.
Officers found a man with serious injuries at the scene and paramedics were u
BCJun 12, 2025
Abbotsford businessman Satwinder Sharma shot and killed in Surrey
A man was killed in a shooting incident in Surrey in broad daylight on Wednesday.
Police have not confirmed the identity of the deceased, but information on social media and Connect FM's conversation with sources have revealed that 57-year-old businessman Satwinder Sharma, a resident of Abbotsford, was the victim of the incident.
Satwinder Sharma had been living in Canada for more than three decades. Officers were called to a business near 84 Avenue and 160 Street at around 3:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Surrey police said.
Officers found a man with serious injuries at the scene and paramedics were u
IndiaJun 12, 2025
Union Home Minister Amit Shah expresses grief over plane crash in Ahmedabad
On the Air India plane crash, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said that there were a total of 230 passengers and 12 crew members on board the plane. Out of these, 1 passenger survived and they have come to meet him. He said that the death toll will be officially released only after DNA testing and identification of the passengers.
The government said that the work of recovering the bodies of all the passengers from the wreckage has been almost completed and those whose families are abroad have been informed. According to the government, there was one and a half lakh litres of jet fuel in the
IndiaJun 12, 2025
Vijay Rupani dies in Air India plane crash
Former Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP's Punjab affairs in-charge Vijay Rupani has died in an Air India plane crash. He was 68. India's Jal Shakti Minister and Gujarat BJP president CR Patil gave this information on Thursday evening.
Air India said that the plane had just taken off from the runway for London's Gatwick Airport when it crashed in a residential area near the airport. According to reports, Rupani was going to London to meet his daughter.
The bodies of several people killed in the crash were found badly charred. Among the passengers was a newlywed named Khushboo Rajpurohit who w
CanadaJun 12, 2025
Patty Hajdu takes important step to resolve dispute between Canada Post and union
Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu is taking an important step to resolve the dispute between Canada Post and the union, under which postal workers will have to vote on Canada Post's latest offer.
This was requested by Canada Post itself, saying that the issue with the union did not seem to be resolved. Jobs Minister Hajdu said that after 18 months of negotiations, more than 200 meetings, a 33-day strike and a lockout in the fall, the issue between Canada Post and the union has not been resolved, so ordering postal workers to vote is in the public interest.
Canada Post welcomed the Jobs Min
CanadaJun 12, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney expresses grief over Air India crash
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney expressed grief over the Air India crash. The Prime Minister said that it was very sad to learn about the crash of the Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London, in which 242 passengers, including a Canadian, were on board.
PM Carney expressed his condolences to the families of all the victims of the plane crash. From Prime Minister Narendra Modi to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Australian PM Anthony Albanese, all world leaders have also expressed grief over the accident. In Ahmedabad, Air India's Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed into the fourth bu
IndiaJun 12, 2025
Air India plane crashes at Ahmedabad airport
An Air India passenger plane bound for London with more than 240 people on board including one Canadian crashed Thursday in India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad, the airline said.
Visuals on local television channels showed smoke billowing from the crash site in what appeared to be a populated area near the airport in Ahmedabad, a city with a population of more than 5 million.
Firefighters doused the smoking wreckage of the plane, which would have been fully loaded with fuel shortly after takeoff, and an adjacent multi-story building with water. Charred bodies lay on the ground.
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AlbertaJun 11, 2025
Alberta premier says province is looking to entice private-sector pipeline builder
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government is working to entice a private-sector player to build a crude pipeline to coastal waters.
She urged attendees at the Global Energy Show to keep up the pressure on Ottawa to help speed along such a nation-building project.
Smith has been enthusiastic about reviving a plan to ship oilsands crude to Prince Rupert on the northern B.C. coast for export to Asia.
But she says that's never going to happen as long as there's a tanker ban in place on the West Coast.
Smith is also keen on accessing global markets via a pipeline to the Port of Churchill i