In his quest for answers about his cousin, Elewa has contacted both the International Red Cross in Jerusalem and the Canadian Red Cross. "They told me to contact the Canadian Red Cross division." But neither the Canadian, nor the Jerusalem branch of the Red Cross have been able to find answers. It is also unknown how many people in Canada have filled out forms with the Canadian Red Cross' Restoring Family Links program, looking for missing loved ones in Gaza. "I've looked into your request and we won't be providing you the number you've requested," said a Canadian Red Cross spokesperson when asked how many Canadians are looking for people in Gaza.

E winds at 10 to 20 mph, increasing to 20 to 30 mph. Locally heavy rainfall possible..TonightPeriods of rain...which will be heavy at times in the evening. E winds at 10 to 20 mph, increasing to 20 to 30 mph. Rainfall possibly over one inch. Locally heavy rainfall possible.

TORONTO — Connor McDavid helped the NHL revamp its sagging skills competition. McDavid won the fastest skater, stickhandling, shooting accuracy and obstacle course events Friday after assisting the league in re-imagining a part of the all-star weekend that had lost much of its lustre in recent years. The skills competition followed Thursday's all-star player draft ahead of Saturday's four-team showcase. McDavid won the stickhandling event with a time of 25.755 seconds. The top eight — McDavid, Makar, Barzal, Pettersson, Matthews, Miller, MacKinnon, Nylander — advanced to the one-on-one shootout event.

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WATCH | You can compare the truffula trees in this review of The Lorax movie:Début du widget Widget. Fin du widget Widget. While searching there in 2017, King and Stimson spotted a tree trunk embedded in a boulder. The most similar modern plants, tree ferns and palms have far fewer leaves and didn't evolve until later. Will Matthaeus is a postdoctoral researcher at Trinity College Dublin who measures and incorporates fossil plants into simulations of ancient ecosystems.

(Ben Nelms/CBC - image credit)This story is from this week's episode of the new CBC podcast Good Question, P.E.I. Good Question, P.E.I. Every week Good Question, P.E.I. Every week, Good Question, P.E.I. Good Question, P.E.I.

RCMP are investigating a death on Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation as a homicide. (CBC/Radio-Canada - image credit)A northern Saskatchewan man has died, and RCMP say they are treating it as a homicide. On Thursday at around 12:45 p.m. CT, Loon Lake RCMP were called to home on Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation, where they found Stick with injuries. RCMP say he was injured during an altercation involving a group of people at a different address. Police are asking people to come forward if they have information or video captured on Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation around the noon hour on Feb. 1.

Kevin Lewis, a prominent St. John's actor, writer and teacher who helped shape generations of local talent, died on Thursday at the age of 81. Kevin Lewis, a prominent St. John's actor, writer and teacher who helped shape generations of local talent, died Thursday at the age of 81. (Alexandra Noseworthy/Refined Focus Photography)Kevin Lewis, a prominent St. John's theatre actor, writer and teacher who helped shape generations of Newfoundland and Labrador talent, has died. Lewis died at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's on Thursday. (CBC)Performer Clar Doyle met Lewis in high school at St. Bon's in St. John's.

Catherine Tait says CBC needs new financial model, not new mandate Feb 2, 2024 | 1:07 PMOTTAWA — The head of Canada’s public broadcaster says it’s the financial model and governance of CBC/Radio-Canada that need reviewing — not its mandate. Catherine Tait made the comments today to a room of industry insiders at Prime Time, a conference for the broadcasting, film and media industry. Tait is pushing for a long-term financial structure such as a charter, similar to that at the BBC, which has a six-year funding agreement with the U.K. government. She says CBC gets its annual funding based on the parliamentary cycle, leaving the broadcaster in a perpetual state of uncertainty.

FILE - Kris Jenner appears at the Business of Fashion 500 Gala in Paris on Sept. 30, 2023. Jenner will appear in an ad for Oreo which will air at the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Vianney Le Caer, File)Kris Jenner has a new term: “Twist on it.”The driven matriarch of the Kardashian-Jenner family will bring the phrase to the Super Bowl forefront during her commercial. “I come from a generation where it was all about the commercials for some of us,” said Jenner, who will appear in her first Super Bowl ad. It’s such an honor.”___More on the Super Bowl: https://apnews.com/hub/super-bowl

Our cookbook of the week is the Bao Family Cookbook by French restaurateur Céline Chung and team. The Bao Family Cookbook connects restaurateur Céline Chung’s two cultures: her Chinese heritage and Parisian home. On Jan. 18, 2019, Chung and Pham opened Petit Bao , the first Bao Family restaurant. So, with very good food but also nice architecture, nice music, very cool service.”Chung wrote the Bao Family Cookbook with the help of her team. Recipes and images excerpted from Bao Family Cookbook: Recipes from the Eight Culinary Regions of China .

(Darrell Roberts/CBC)Corner Brook MHA and former provincial fisheries minister Gerry Byrne says Newfoundland and Labrador deserves a higher allocation of redfish this season, and believes the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans is "intellectually and morally bankrupt" in its decision-making. Federal Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier announced the redfish allocation for the Atlantic provinces in the Gulf of St. Lawrence last Friday. "The Gulf of St. Lawrence's return to [the] redfish fishery story should be a story of D.F.O. If he were minister, Byrne said, he would have allocated numbers more closely based on historical figures. He plans to bring that up in a meeting with DFO, current Fisheries Minister Elvis Loveless and provincial stakeholders on Friday.

This is the tale of a fairly normal man by the name of Richard Assman. Richard – who went by Dick for short – was born in Neudorf, Saskatchewan to his parents, Elizabeth and Adolf. Dick Assman was your average, everyday Canadian just trying to make a living. Assman worked as a gas station attendant for Petro-Canada. Shortly after transferring to a new location, Dick Assman’s life was about to be changed forever.

A trailer for “Allegiance” shows aerial views of Surrey and a “Canadian Federal Police Corps” building, described as the largest detachment of the police force. With a Surrey policing transition still a very hot topic in the news, the “Allegiance” creative team says the timing of the series launch is coincidental. Supinder Wraich (as the character Sabrina Sohal) salutes in a scene in CBC’s new Surrey-set police drama, “Allegiance,” to debut Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. (Photo: Darko Sikman via CBC/Lark Productions)Last fall, until just before Christmas, the first season of “Allegiance” was filmed in Surrey and parts of Langley. “The people of Surrey, whenever we were shooting, would stop and ask what we were doing,” the actor added.

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley is leading the charge against an international financial system that puts more people at risk each year as the climate crisis deepens. Photo by COP28 / Christopher Pike (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed) Mottley intends to catapult her Bridgetown Initiative into the mainstream. But beyond these changes, Mottley believes she’s identified an important revenue stream that could generate hundreds of billions of dollars without straining the financial system. Barbados PM Mia Mottley has emerged on the world scene as a fierce champion of global financial reform to avert the worst impacts of the climate crisis. Without naming it, Mottley is attempting to resurrect an old idea in financial circles and bring it from the national level to the international.