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The significance of Red Dress Day

(KRON) – May 5 is National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQI+ people (two-spirit people, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex). The day is also known as “Red Dress Day.” Members of the Indigenous community and allies wear and display red dresses to honor the missing and […]

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Car blast shuts down US-Canada border crossing

US terrorism investigators deployed Wednesday after a car erupted into a fireball at a US-Canada checkpoint, triggering border closures and heightened security on one of the busiest travel days in the American holiday calendar.The incident came on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, one of the busiest days for travel on the US holiday calendar when millions of Americans take to the roads and skies.

Canadian lender BMO to wind down retail auto finance business

TORONTO (Reuters) -Bank of Montreal (BMO) is winding down its retail auto finance business and shifting focus to other areas in a move that will result in an unspecified number of job losses, Canada's third largest bank said on Saturday. The move, applicable in Canada and the United States, comes after BMO's bad debt provisions in retail trade surged to C$81 million ($60 million) in the quarter ended July 31 compared with a recovery of C$9 million a year ago, in a sign of growing stress consumers face from a rapid rise in borrowing costs. "By winding down the indirect retail auto finance business, we have the ability to focus our resources on areas where we believe our competitive positioning is strongest," BMO said in a statement to Reuters.

Canada shut its land border to asylum seekers More refugees came anyway

A deal Canada struck this year to stem the flow of asylum seekers entering from the U.S. was, at first glance, a quick success: Within days, the number of people caught at unofficial crossings along the border dwindled to a trickle. But five months later, the overall number of people filing refugee claims in Canada has risen instead of falling. The numbers show how hard it is for countries to shut the door on desperate people and the challenge unexpected numbers of asylum seekers can pose: In Toronto, hundreds slept on the streets this summer as they struggled to find beds.

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