Mourning Ceremony in La Loche
A group of mourners in Saskatoon paid tribute to Marie Janvier while the 21-year-old teacher's assistant was being laid to rest in La Loche.
Two dozen people, with candles in hand, gathered in Saskatoon's Victoria Park yesterday to say prayers, offer words of comfort and share hugs.
Organizer Hanah Molloy wanted to show support for her friend Sarah, who was Janvier's sister.
Janvier is the first the four La Loche shooting victims to be laid to rest.
Crews Work to Restore Power in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Power is working to restore electricity to customers left in the dark from a snowstorm.
A utility official says at one point, 67 thousand customers were without power.
The utility says some people may not have power until later this morning as crews grapple with heavy, wet snow that has built up on tree branches, causing them to droop over power lines
Zika Vaccine
Health officials say it could be years before there's a vaccine for the Zika virus, which is spreading rampantly throughout Latin America.
Local governments are spraying homes.
The virus is most dangerous for pregnant women because it has been linked to a brain birth defect.
In Canada, Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Gregory Taylor says the mosquitoes that transmit the virus are not a worry here.
Snowmobile Deaths
The day after a colossal avalanche killed five men from Alberta, other snowmobilers were back in the wilderness of eastern British Columbia.
The B-C Coroners Service identified the men yesterday.
The five were aged between 41 and 55, and died during a recreational outing on Mount Renshaw.
But one couple still chose to head out the next morning on the mountain where the tragedy occurred -- though Thea Pelletier says she and her husband steered well clear of the actual avalanche site.
Fake Gun Arrests in Winnipeg Mall
Police say one of two reports of people pointing guns at a Winnipeg mall turned out to be a person who is alleged to have made hand and body gestures that imitated shooting a gun at shoppers.
Twenty-six-year-old Clinton Peter Osborne of Winnipeg has been charged with causing a disturbance and failing to comply with probation order.
Police say the second incident was unrelated to the first and involved a 41-year-old man who had an airsoft gun in a backpack.
He was cautioned and released without charge.
Rebuilding Lac-Megantic
The reconstruction office in Lac-Megantic, Quebec has officially opened its doors more than two and a-half years after a 2013 train disaster levelled the city's core.
The office will help promoters with their projects and try to attract public and private investors to the city.
Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau attended the event yesterday, to announce 1.96 million dollars in federal funding for the office
