It was Louis de Lorimier’s first posting as an ambassador for Canada when he arrived in Lebanon in September 2005, after almost a quarter-century in the foreign service. Last Saturday, Canada ended its evacuation flights to bring Canadians home from Sudan amid escalating violence and deteriorating safety conditions. “Canada continues to monitor the situation actively and will continue to provide assistance to Canadians and permanent residents wishing to depart Sudan,” Global Affairs Canada said in a statement on Friday. For example, on the first day of the Lebanese evacuation, the Canadian government had initially secured six ships to each carry 250 people out of the Lebanon’s main port. That’s when the press reported in Canada that the operation was a mess.

Westboro residents say they're pleased a stretch of their local beach will reopen this summer — even if it comes with news that the entire construction project won't wrap up until next year. "Last summer was not a happy summer," said Len Fardella, co-president of the Westboro Beach Community Association. The closure of Westboro Beach in 2023 was part of the National Capital Commission's (NCC) plans to redevelop the area. © Joseph Tunney/CBC Len Fardella, co-president of the Westboro Beach Community Association, said residents weren't happy to learn their beach wouldn't reopen on time. But when the entire beach closed last summer, the community wasn't happy, Fardella said — and aired those frustrations.

Special Thanks to Shay Castle, Boulder Beat (AP Storyshare)It’s spring in Boulder County. In unincorporated Boulder County, building permits have been issued for 57 of 157 destroyed homes. Louisville has issued building permits for for 247 of the 550 it lost, and four households have moved back home. Superior has handed out 191 building permits, representing 49% of the town’s 389 homes destroyed by the fire. The city’s chief building official, who typically doesn’t handle building permits, sets aside Thursdays to process them for Marshall Fire victims, Ritchie said.

© Thomson Reuters Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) pose for a picture after a swap at an unknown location in UkraineKYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine on Saturday hailed the return of 45 Azov battalion fighters captured during the battle for Mariupol while Russia said three of its pilots had been released by Kyiv, but neither side gave a full account of the apparent prisoner swap. © Thomson Reuters Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) are seen after a swap at an unknown location in UkraineThe freed Ukrainian prisoners included 42 men and three women from the Azov battalion, said Andriy Yermak, the head of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office. Thirty-five privates and sergeants, 10 officers," Yermak said on the telegram app in a post that did not mention the release of Russian prisoners. There were no reports on Russian state media of additional Russian prisoner releases. © Thomson Reuters Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) rest after a swap at an unknown location in UkraineMoscow and Kyiv have agreed a number prisoner exchanges since Russia's full-scale invasion in February last year.

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Erased in so many ways from the pageantry and the historical record of the only coronation many of us will ever witness. The tunic is sentimentally precious to Charles because it was worn by his grandfather, King George VI, at the 1937 coronation. Charles later swapped it out, as is the custom upon departure from the Abbey, for the Imperial Crown featuring 2,868 diamonds. The late Queen called it her “party hat.”Diamond Jubilee State Coach to the Abbey, Gold State Coach from the Abbey. (Afterwards, Sarah told The Independent: “I was moved to tears and felt so proud watching the new King and Queen being crowned.)

Throw interpersonal undercurrents into the mix (yes, we’re looking at you, Prince William and Prince Harry), and getting this right must have been a nightmare exercise for the coronation’s organizers. Prince HarryWhere would Prince Harry sit at the coronation? In the end, the Duke of Sussex was seated in the third row, right next to other non-working royals like his cousins, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie. Harry was separated from his brother, Prince William, by a row that included the likes of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, one of Queen Elizabeth’s cousins. Prince William, Princess Kate and familyPrince William, Kate, and their children were the VVIPS, barring King Charles and Queen Camilla themselves.

History may record yesterday’s coronation of King Charles III as being more about apathy than the traditions of an ancient monarchy. Whatever your stance, the reality is that long before yesterday, King Charles was already Canada’s head of state. One of the swords he was presented with, for example, symbolizes the sovereign’s mercy and was first used at the coronation of Charles I in 1626. According to Buckingham Palace, this coronation reflected the Monarch’s role today and looked toward the future. Even at ground zero in Britain, 52 per cent of people said they weren’t taking note of the coronation.

CHICO, Calif. (AP) — A 17-year-old girl was killed and five other people were wounded in a shooting early Saturday at a party near a college campus in Northern California, police said. Officers responding around 3:30 a.m. to reports of gunfire found six people shot at an apartment building in Chico, police Chief Billy Aldridge said. Two men, ages 21 and 19, and a 17-year-old girl remained hospitalized in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries, the chief said. Two other men, ages 18 and 20, were treated at the hospital and released, Aldridge said. Both parties were in neighborhoods near California State University in Chico, a city with about 101,000 residents 90 miles (145 km) north of Sacramento.

© Submitted by Conor McKenna Brian McKenna, a founding producer of CBC's The Fifth Estate, died Friday night at the age of 77. Brian McKenna, an acclaimed Montreal-born documentary filmmaker and a founding producer of CBC's The Fifth Estate, died Friday night at the age of 77. His daughter, Robin McKenna, said her father had a great love of family and she remembers lots of laughing, joking and teasing. "He was a great father," said his son Conor McKenna, the host of The Morning Show on TSN 690. The filmmaker received 40 award nominations in Canada and internationally and won the 1993 Gordon Sinclair Award For Broadcast Journalism.

After a few quiet years in Sacramento regarding HOAs, California’s legislature is quite active this year with at least eight bills proposing to affect HOAs in 2024. Assembly Bill 648 would, if passed, allow HOAs to have purely virtual or telephonic meetings without having a physical location announced for those not wishing to participate virtually or telephonically. Assembly Bill 288, authored by Assembly member Brian Maienschein of North San Diego County, adopts California Law Revision Commission recommendations. Civil Code 5551, enacted in 2020, requires all HOAs to have visual inspections of exterior elevated elements within the HOA’s maintenance or repair responsibility. Assembly Bill 1101, authored by Assembly member Heath Flora of the San Joaquin Valley, would add a third allowable inspector as an option, a Branch 3 registered pest control company.

Skye Hunt's 'In Celebration of the Mother' was made for her school's Earth Day art show on April 21, 2023, but was moved to an art room because the board deemed it too 'mature.' "When you think 'earth,' you think 'women.' You think 'mother,'" the 17-year-old told CBC Radio's Ontario Morning. "I feel really happy, really ecstatic that I've had the reach that I have," she said. "Hopefully it's helped some women or some girls somewhere feel more confident in themselves and know they're beautiful, [that] every body is a beautiful body."

I knew that, once I graduated from high school, I would need to take care of myself. The second option required a fifth year of high school, for which you earned an “honours” graduation diploma, which was necessary to go on to university. I was 18 years old, had a high school diploma, and figured maybe it was time to go out and earn a living, to help out — a classic working-class stance. I went to the guidance office at school and dropped out. I quit the job and went back to high school to finish Grade 13, having missed a semester.

Got a comment? Leave your thoughts in the comments section, below. Premier Danielle Smith called the current wildfire situation in Alberta an “unprecedented crisis”, forcing close to 25,000 Albertans to flee. CBC News published this video item, entitled “Out-of-control wildfires ‘unprecedented crisis’, says Alberta premier” – below is their description. It frequently collaborates with its French-language counterpart, Radio-Canada Info, although the two are organizationally separate.

They fantasized about a Britain reborn, unsoiled by royal privilege — though far from equal as a society, don’t be daft. And so they delivered King Charles I to the scaffold, ushering in a brief period of republicanism in what is today the United Kingdom. On Saturday, 136,696 days after Charles I had his head severed from his body, his descendant will be officially crowned King Charles III. In fact, the findings put Canada — which Charles has visited 18 times — near the top in antimonarchy sentiment: 47 per cent of those polled favouring divorcement. And in the meantime, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.”The challenge for King Charles, Goodale told the Star in an interview at Canada House, is how to reinvent monarchy in the 21st century.