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Rescuers use new tech to save caver trapped vertically in Alberta's 'Psych Squeeze'

The volunteer-built QDX-M radio sent text through more than 500 metres of rock and helped rescuers coordinate a 13-person cave operation.

  • President Donald Trump's 50 per cent tariff on $28 billion in Canadian goods takes effect Saturday, following a deadline extension from Wednesday to allow officials to finalize a trade agreement.
  • Trump threatened the new duties in July to retaliate against Canada's booze bans and auto tariffs, while quotas on tariff-free U.S. dairy access also prompted the trade pressure.
  • The national monument 'Thunderhead' officially opens in Ottawa today, honoring the roughly 9,000 public servants and military members dismissed during the Cold War for their sexual orientation or gender identity.
  • An operation involving 13 cave rescuers and 10 firefighters successfully freed a caver from the 'Psych Squeeze' in Canmore's Rat's Nest Cave on Saturday using volunteer-built radio technology.
  • Residents of Port Hope are opposing Ontario's proposed nuclear power plant, citing the community's fraught 20th-century history with radioactive waste cleanup from uranium refinery operations.
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Rescuers use new tech to save caver trapped vertically in Alberta's 'Psych Squeeze'

A caver has been rescued after being trapped vertically underground at the Rat's Nest Cave in Canmore, Alta., in an operation that deployed volunteer-built underground radio technology for the first time. Search and Rescue Alberta says the man became pinned in a tight spot known as the "Psych S...

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Rescuers use new tech to save caver trapped vertically in Alberta’s ‘Psych Squeeze’

A caver has been rescued after being trapped vertically underground at the Rat's Nest Cave in Canmore, Alta., in an operation that deployed volunteer-built underground radio technology for the first

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In the news today: Trump tariff looms, LGBTQ+ monument opens, Alberta cave rescue

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...

·Winnipeg, Canada
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