Three national and international architectural firms have been hired to design the $500 million BMO Centre expansion project. The Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC), which is managing the development of the project, announced on Thursday that Stantec, Populous and S2 Architecture will head up the design portion of the expansion. Related BMO Centre expansion gets […]
The US Justice Department unveiled 17 new criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange yesterday, saying he unlawfully published the names of classified sources and conspired with and assisted ex-Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in obtaining access to classified information. The superseding indictment comes a little more than a month after the Justice Department unsealed […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — It has been a relentless storm season in the Midwest. First came flooded farm fields and roads across Nebraska and Iowa. Then the Mississippi River rose and rose, threatening towns along its banks. And on Wednesday night, a series of violent tornadoes tore through the region, ripping apart buildings and darkening […]
Over the last five years, Bonnie Gorski’s home has felt more like a prison than a place to call home. “It’s pretty hard for me to even look out the window because I’m sitting in one spot all day,” Gorski said. The 50-year-old from Regina has lost full mobility in both her legs after being […]
A British Columbia court is set to rule Friday whether the province can restrict shipments of diluted bitumen through its borders, in what will be a crucial decision for the future of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The province filed a reference question to the B.C. Court of Appeal that asked whether it had the […]
OTTAWA — Applications for temporary resident visas issued to visitors, students and temporary workers in Canada have more than quadrupled since 2015, stretching the Immigration Department’s ability to process them, according to a federal report. The Immigration Department’s annual plan shows that in the fiscal year that ended March 2018, officials issued more than 5.7 […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Facebook on Thursday (May 23) said it recently disabled billions of bogus accounts set up by “bad actors” and that five per cent of active accounts are likely fakes. An estimate of how many of the online social networks accounts are fake and actions taken against the creation of more during […]
Eight meat pies. That’s what a bear devoured in front of a startled homeowner before fleeing the B.C. house it had somehow entered this past weekend. In a seemingly too-wild-to-be-true moment between humans and animals, Colleen Linley said she was stunned to see a bear inside her Peachland home early Saturday morning. The Okanagan resident […]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged in the United States with receiving and publishing thousands of classified documents linked to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The US Justice Department has indicted the 47-year-old, who is currently jailed in Britain, on 18 counts that relate to his “alleged role in one of the largest […]
Hamilton police have released photos of two suspects in the city’s latest homicide. Last Saturday morning, 33-year-old Carel Douse was stabbed outside a residence on East Avenue, dying later in hospital. Investigators say the initial stabbing happened inside a nearby barbershop, which led to the victim being chased by three suspects to the front of […]