Start your day with FirstUp, the Star's morning news digest: Inside the Canadian flights leaving Sudan + Ottawa’s controversial new streaming bill
Good morning. This is the Friday, April 28 edition of First Up, the Star’s daily morning digest. Sign upHere’s the latest on Canadians in Sudan, the James Cree Nation rampage, and the online streaming bill becoming law.The flights, first promised by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday, lifted off from an airstrip outside Khartoum on Thursday, according to the foreign affairs minister.
On Thursday, police released new details about the tragedy that claimed the lives of 11 people and injured 17 others. Not released, however, was a motive for the massacre, with police saying there are questions they will likely never be able to answer with the suspect now dead.RCMP first started receiving calls about the violence in the early morning hours of Sept. 4. The stabbings sparked a manhunt for the two brothers — Myles and Damien — that lasted for days.
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