Sunwing Airlines says one of its flights from Toronto to Cancun, Mexico, was delayed by over 13 hours on Friday because the flight crew exceeded the maximum number of hours they are allowed to work. The company said flight WG535 was scheduled to depart Toronto’s Pearson International Airport at 10:15 a.m., but didn’t leave until […]
The wildfire danger in the Slave Lake Forest Area is expected to climb to “extreme” on Saturday, the highest level on the fire weather index. RELATED: Experts forecast wildfire danger increasing in parts of Western Canada The elevated danger is due to “strong and gusty winds” that could cause a fire to burn intensely and […]
The Quebec government is crediting its new gun registry law for a major spike in the number of long guns voluntarily handed over to police for destruction. Between April 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019, 5,250 long-guns were voluntarily given to authorities to be destroyed, according to provincial police spokeswoman Joyce Kemp. The previous year, […]
A man has been accused of chopping off his mother's head with a hacksaw, then doing a runner and leading police on a chase. Officers were called to the Texas home of Isaac Israel Warriner, 22, and Sarah Warriner, 65, on May 5 after a neighbour reported him "acting weird". The caller stated that Warriner […]
OTTAWA (REUTERS) – Canada will move quickly to ratify the new North American trade pact, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Saturday (May 18), a day after the United States agreed to lift tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum. US President Donald Trump had imposed the global “Section 232” tariffs of 25 per cent […]
A Texas man used a hacksaw to cut off his mother’s head before fleeing and leading police on a chase into Oklahoma before they arrested him, authorities have said. Isaac Israel Warriner, 22, is being held in a Denton County jail on charges including the abuse of a corpse. He has not been charged with […]
An athletics team doctor sexually abused at least 177 male students from 1979 to 1997, an investigation by Ohio State University in the US says. Dr Richard Strauss, who died in 2005, is accused of groping and performing “unnecessary examinations” on young men while treating athletes in 16 sports. The report stated that university officials […]
Every couple of months, Officer Michael Zinn of the York Area Regional Police Department in Pennsylvania ran a photo of a man through the department’s facial recognition software. In a year and a half of searches, the result was always the same: No hits. The man was a suspect in the July 2016 sexual assault […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES)- Iran has unloaded missiles from at least two small boats in its territorial waters in what two US officials said on Friday (May 17) was a sign of easing tensions in the brewing confrontation between Washington and Teheran. In recent days, US officials have described satellite photographs showing fully assembled missiles being loaded […]
Five things to keep in mind in the wake of Friday’s news that Canada and the U.S. reached an agreement to end punitive American tariffs on steel and aluminum exports: 1. The devil is in the details. So far, it’s not clear what concessions Canada made in order to convince a famously stubborn White House […]