Evacuation Orders Getting Lifted For Some Saskatchewan Communities
Officials in Saskatchewan are assessing forest fires and
compiling a list of what communities may get their evacuation orders
lifted.
compiling a list of what communities may get their evacuation orders
lifted.
About 130 people from Grandmother's Bay were to start returning
home yesterday, as fires there were no longer posing a threat.
Duane McKay with emergency management says staff are also looking
at whether communities still have phone, power and gas services.
Wildfires sparked in the north over the past two weeks have
forced about 13,000 people out of their homes in at least 50
communities.
Carmen Woman Recovering After Spine Injury
A Manitoba jockey who injured her spine after falling from her
horse says she's determined to ride again.
horse says she's determined to ride again.
Alyssa Selman was violently thrown during a race at Assiniboia
Downs two weeks ago.
The mother of two from Carmen underwent surgery and has no
feeling below her chest.
But she says she's grateful to be alive and has hope that she'll
be back on a horse again someday.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Visiting Ottawa Tomorrow
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk is due in Ottawa
tomorrow for talks with Prime Minister Harper.
tomorrow for talks with Prime Minister Harper.
Harper's office bills the meeting as a chance to strengthen the
close relationship between Canada and Ukraine.
The two leaders last met in Kyiv early last month, just before
the G7 summit.
Yatsenyuk asked Harper to press the western allies to give more
military aid to Ukrainian forces battling Russian-backed rebels in
eastern Ukraine.
USDA Raising Wheat Ending Stocks Projection
The US Department of Agriculture is raising its projection of
wheat ending stocks by 28,000,000 bushels.
It makes it the largest ending stocks figure in the US since
2011.
The agency's season-average price to producers is also up $0.35 to between $4.75 and $5.75 a bushel.
Corn ending stocks are down by 172,000,000 bushels.
The deal demands Greece cut spending even further in exchange for
more desperately-needed loans.
Without those loans, Greek banks, which have been closed for two
weeks, would almost certainly have collapsed.
There are signs the Greek Parliament will meet today to adopt the
reforms called for in the agreement.
It will happen tomorrow morning, when NASA's New Horizons
spacecraft will fly by Pluto for a close look at the icy dwarf
planet.
Launched more than nine years ago, the spacecraft has travelled
about five-billion kilometres to get to this point.
Discovered in 1930, Pluto was originally classified as the solar
system's ninth planet, but was re-classified in 2006 as a dwarf
planet.
wheat ending stocks by 28,000,000 bushels.
It makes it the largest ending stocks figure in the US since
2011.
The agency's season-average price to producers is also up $0.35 to between $4.75 and $5.75 a bushel.
Corn ending stocks are down by 172,000,000 bushels.
Greece Reaches Deal With European Creditors
Greece reached an agreement this morning with its European
creditors that will keep the cash-strapped country in the group of
19 countries that use the euro as their currency.
creditors that will keep the cash-strapped country in the group of
19 countries that use the euro as their currency.
The deal demands Greece cut spending even further in exchange for
more desperately-needed loans.
Without those loans, Greek banks, which have been closed for two
weeks, would almost certainly have collapsed.
There are signs the Greek Parliament will meet today to adopt the
reforms called for in the agreement.
NASA Spacecraft To Flyby Pluto
Astronomers say it will be the biggest planetary unveiling in 25
years.
years.
It will happen tomorrow morning, when NASA's New Horizons
spacecraft will fly by Pluto for a close look at the icy dwarf
planet.
Launched more than nine years ago, the spacecraft has travelled
about five-billion kilometres to get to this point.
Discovered in 1930, Pluto was originally classified as the solar
system's ninth planet, but was re-classified in 2006 as a dwarf
planet.
