Lethbridge College presented four awards to outstanding alumni and the celebrated the impact they’ve had in their chosen career fields at its annual Honouring Excellence event on Thursday. Global Edmonton anchor Quinn Ohler, who graduated from the Broadcast Journalism program in 2009, was presented with the Rising Star award. “Lethbridge College has so many amazing […]
Quebec’s Public Security Ministry is maintaining an alert for the Chute-Bell dam in the western Laurentians as flooding continues across the province. The alert, which was issued Thursday afternoon, has been extended until 11:45 p.m. on May 3. The hydroelectric dam hasn’t failed yet, but Hydro-Québec warns it is fragile. “Right now everything is stable, […]
Even on a night of surprises for Blanche Wright, the man in the suit stood out. She had headed across the Bronx to visit her sick aunt, but when she entered the apartment she found a roomful of people waiting for her: “Happy Birthday!” Then she was introduced to a friend of her aunt’s, an […]
Vancouver drivers are feeling the financial pain at the pump as gas prices continue to hover around $1.70 a litre — an all-time high in the region. The cost of gas is so expensive that residents in the Lower Mainland are driving across the border to fill up at the pump and save some cash. […]
Just how far can you get in the New York City socialite scene without a real fortune of your own? Incredibly far, in the case of Anna Delvey – real name Anna Sorokin – who allegedly tricked the city’s elite into thinking she was a billionaire heiress. She reportedly hired a private jet, went to […]
If you’re a soccer fan in Canada, you’ll likely be focused on Tim Hortons Field on Saturday when Hamilton’s Forge FC hosts York9 in the first ever Canadian Premier League (CPL) regular season match. It’s been a long road for Bob Young, owner of the Canadian Football League’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats, who planted the seeds for […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hopes to boost morale at the State Department with an “ethos” statement that some former officials viewed with skepticism, partly because an early draft had language they saw as an admonition not to leak to the media. Two former officials knowledgeable about the effort said the […]
Federal prosecutors charged a state judge and a former court officer in Massachusetts with obstruction of justice on Thursday for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant escape from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer at a courthouse last year. The indictment of the judge, Shelley M. Richmond Joseph, 51, and the officer, Wesley MacGregor, 56, was […]
New studies from Lawson Health Research Institute and Western University are showing for the first time that HIV can be transmitted through sharing equipment used to prepare drugs, even without sharing needles or syringes. However, researchers are also reporting a simple way to prevent that transmission: heating the equipment with a cigarette lighter for just […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The United States on Thursday (April 25) added China’s third-largest e-commerce platform to its list of”notorious markets” for violations of intellectual property rights and kept China on its priority watch list for piracy and counterfeiting concerns. The US Trade Representative’s (USTR) Office placed Pinduoduo.com, which USTR described as third largest by number […]