Today in the news: 6-year-old girl missing near Burns Lake, BC is safe

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press, intended to keep you informed…

Girl, 6, missing near Burns Lake, BC is safe

A 6-year-old girl who has been missing from her community in north-central British Columbia since Thursday has been found safe.

People from across the province were called in to help find the child, who lives in a small community not far from Burns Lake.

The girl, who is autistic and non-verbal, was found on Sunday evening around 6 p.m.

Police said she was in a wooded area that had already been searched between her home and the First Nation band office.

According to them, investigators believe she was moving somewhere when she went missing and therefore was not in the area when the search was first initiated.

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Missing Manitoba boy, 6, found dead

A six-year-old boy from northeastern Manitoba, who has been missing since last Wednesday, has been found dead.

According to the Shamattawa RCMP, Johnson Redhead was found dead in a swampy area on Sunday evening around 7:45 p.m.

According to the RCMP, Redhead’s body was found about 3.5 kilometres from his school in the remote First Nation area.

According to the police, he was at school on Wednesday morning, but he was not in class on time after the breakfast program.

In addition to the RCMP, search and rescue teams from Winnipeg also travelled to Shamattawa to search for Redhead.

Trudeau meets with Haiti’s Prime Minister

Justin Trudeau will focus on the ongoing crisis in Haiti during his talks with a number of world leaders on Monday ahead of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

The prime minister will meet with the Caribbean country’s acting prime minister, Garry Conille, and then deliver a speech at a high-level meeting of a UN advisory group for Haiti.

Conille took on his role earlier this year after former Prime Minister Ariel Henry was forced to resign amid growing unrest and violence from criminal gangs who had taken over much of Haiti’s capital.

Later Monday, Trudeau will have a very different kind of conversation during his guest appearance on CBS’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

Trudeau arrived in New York on Sunday, where he spoke at the Summit of the Future, telling leaders they had a choice to bury their heads in the sand or face global challenges together.

Court to hear appeal against challenge to pronoun law

The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal will hear arguments over the next two days about a provincial law that requires parental consent if children under 16 want to change their name or pronouns at school.

A judge ruled earlier this year that a challenge to the law could proceed even though the government invoked the nullity clause to ignore certain Charter rights.

The province has asked the Court of Appeal to overturn that ruling. According to it, the use of the notwithstanding clause should put an end to the legal dispute.

Lawyers for UR Pride, an LGBTQ+ group that brought the case, argue that the law causes irreparable harm to young people with gender diversity issues and that the case should continue.

They also say the law forces young people to come out at school or to adopt the wrong gender identity or name.

Hospital-to-LTC legislation to be tested in Ontario court

A new treaty process begins Monday, testing the constitutionality of a controversial Ontario law that allows hospitals to place discharged patients in nursing homes of their own choosing, or face a $400-a-day fee if they refuse.

The Advocacy Centre for the Elderly and the Ontario Health Coalition argue that the law, known as the More Bed Better Care Act or Bill 7, violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The province does not agree with this.

A key issue the court will discuss is whether the new law has achieved its goal of improving patient flow. Documents filed with the court reveal that the two sides have come to different conclusions on that question.

Premier Doug Ford’s government rushed Bill 7 through the legislature in a matter of days in September 2022, without the need for public hearings.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 23, 2024.

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