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Manitoba is sending a crew of 15 emergency support workers and gear to the East Coast as Atlantic provinces continue cleanup and recovery efforts following Fiona, which hit the region as a post-tropical storm two weeks ago.

One person remains unaccounted for after a roof collapsed in East Vancouver on Thursday. Fire crews are combing the scene to find them.

Humanoid robot parts — that’s what is written in sharpie on a box sitting on a shelf in the Schulich School of Engineering’s Unmanned Vehicle Robotarium Lab.

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Overnight rainfall in flood-ravaged Abbotsford, B.C., was no match for the citys fully operational Barrowtown Pump Station, but officials remain anxious about the forecast over the coming days.

As of 12 pm on Monday afternoon, people living in Sumas Prairie North are allowed to return home as an evacuation order is rescinded.

The mayor of a B.C. city and provincial officials are expected to provide updates Tuesday on the local flooding situation.

A northern Manitoba community is imposing a curfew after a surge in COVID-19 cases.

  WINNIPEG -- A northern Manitoba community is exploring the possibility of a curfew to deal with a spike in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks. Lynn Lake is a town of about 475 people in northern Manitoba, and right now, approximately one-quarter of the people who live there are COVID-19 positive. “As of yesterday (Wednesday), there were 121 active cases, we have 35 out of 209 houses in isolation,” said Tom Matus, the town’s chief administrative officer. Matus told CTV News the increas...