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Volunteers clean up Regina’s North Central following viral video

Residents in Regina’s North Central neighbourhood are fed up with litter and took matters into their own hands after a video shared on Facebook showing a parade of garbage lining a back alley went viral. The video was posted on April 4 and has since been viewed more than 123,000 times in a little over […]

B.C. Supreme Court judge awards $2M in 2012 flood damage lawsuit

An improperly built bridge sparked a debris flood near Sicamous in 2012, a B.C. Supreme judge ruled this week as he handed down a $2 million court decision. This week, Justice Gary P. Weatherill ruled in favour of the plaintiffs who sued the province, the District of Sicamous and an area couple for financial losses […]

Elections Alberta releases unofficial election results

Unofficial results of Tuesday’s provincial election were released Friday afternoon and show the United Conservative Party with 63 seats and Alberta’s NDP with 24 seats. While most of Alberta’s 87 ridings were declared on Tuesday night, some of them remained too close to call until all of the out-of-district advance poll results were reported. Related […]

Way of the Cross in Saskatoon a chance to reflect on social justice

Hundreds turned out on a sunny Good Friday morning for the annual Way of the Cross in downtown Saskatoon. The walk started on the front steps of the Queen’s Bench courthouse and participants made their way to 14 stations where they stopped to reflect. Concerns addressed in prayer at each station included poverty, injustice and […]

Republican Mitt Romney 'sickened' by Mueller report's description of Trump, aides

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Republican Senator Mitt Romney said on Friday (April 19) that he was “sickened” and “appalled” by what Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report revealed about President Donald Trump and his aides, while most Republicans declined to comment on the explosive report. “I am sickened at the extent and pervasiveness of dishonesty and misdirection […]

Trump approval drops 3 points to 2019 low after release of Mueller report

NEW YORK (REUTERS) – The number of Americans who approve of President Donald Trump dropped by 3 percentage points to the lowest level of the year following the release of a special counsel report detailing Russian interference in the last US presidential election, according to an exclusive Reuters/Ipsos public opinion poll. The poll, conducted on […]

How can parents torture their children?

David and Louise Turpin stand accused of holding their 13 children in shackles at their California home. The allegations of torture seem impossible to comprehend next to the family photos circulated in the press that show the smiling group on days out at places like Disneyland. We asked experts in child abuse, psychiatry and psychology […]

‘House of horrors’ children forgive parents

The children of a California couple have forgiven their parents for years of torture as the couple were sentenced to life in prison. David and Louise Turpin’s children told a court they still love their parents despite the abuse and starvation. The couple were arrested in January 2018 when their 17-year-old daughter escaped their home […]

Subway Chief May Quit Over Tensions With Cuomo, Colleagues Fear

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Andy Byford, the transit executive who was hired to rescue New York City’s foundering subway, has had growing tensions with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo over management of the system, and several of his colleagues said they feared he might […]