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Trudeau denounces church burnings, vandalism in Canada
By JIM MORRISJuly 2, 2021 GMT
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday denounced the burning and vandalism of Catholic churches that has followed discovery of unmarked graves and former schools for Indigenous children.
Several Catholic churches have recently been vandalized or damaged in fires following the discovery of more than 1,100 unmarked graves at the sites of three former residential schools run by the church in British Columbia and Saskatchewan that generations of Indigenous children had been forced to attend .
The nation also saw a series of attacks Thursday Canada Day on statues of Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth and other historical figures.
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Alfred Higginbottom, of the Skuppah Indian Band, a Nlaka pamux First Nations government, watches the Lytton, B.C., area wildfire. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP We do know there are some people who are unaccounted for, said Mike Farnworth, the province s public safety minister, though he said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Red Cross were working to locate people.
The main wireless provider for the area, Telus Corp., said Friday it has deployed emergency communications equipment to help authorities and emergency crews dealing with the wildfires.
Canada, US report deaths following days of record-breaking heat
03 Jul 2021, 12:02 GMT+10
PORTLAND, Oregon: The state of Oregon has confirmed that 63 people died due to the excessive heat that struck the Pacific Northwest in the past week.
Portland reached a record high of 116 degrees Fahrenheit. Portland now reports 45 deaths related to the heat.
As a matter of comparison, the entire state of Oregon had only 12 deaths from extreme heat from 2017 to 2019, officials said.
The Oregon Health Authority earlier reported that hospitals throughout the state registered hundreds of visits in recent days due to heat-related illnesses.
In Canada s British Columbia, some 486 deaths were reported over five days due to the extreme heat. This number was nearly three times the usual number in the province for that period, the B.C. Coroners Service said Wednesday.
Canada: Wildfire Burns Entire Village After Temperature Tops 121ºF AP Photo/Noah Berger
2 Jul 2021
A wildfire consumed an entire village in British Columbia, Canada, on Thursday after the small town recorded Canada’s highest-ever temperature of 121.2º Fahrenheit earlier this week, the
Vancouver Sun reported on Friday.
“Most homes and structures in the village, as well as the ambulance station and the RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] detachment, have been lost,” British Columbia Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth told reporters on July 1 of the situation in Lytton, British Columbia, a village of roughly 1,000 residents.
Farnworth added that Lytton’s “evacuees fled to reception centres in three different directions from Lytton, but some were unaccounted for.”