Four Brantford police officers got a rough ride Wednesday evening as two separate domestic calls lead to assaults on constables. The first happened just after 5:00 P.M. as officers responded to a possible domestic dispute in the city’s east end on Colbourne Street. Witnesses told police a male and female were arguing in a vehicle […]
Hamilton City crews will be out on the Lincoln and the Red Hill Valley Parkways this weekend, placing temporary cameras to monitor traffic. A council-approved study hopes to determine if the parkways are being used as shortcuts instead of using Highway 403 and the QEW. Starting this Sunday, digital cameras will be placed on the […]
WestJet Airlines Ltd. is going to the Supreme Court of Canada in an attempt to have a proposed class-action lawsuit launched by a former flight attendant thrown out of court. The airline lost efforts to scuttle the action in both the B.C. Supreme and Appeal courts, but documents filed with the high court say the […]
Some Monctonians sleeping in tents spent Thursday packing their belongings, after a notice informed them they had to move. The notice comes as the city begins its spring cleanup. The social inclusion co-ordinator for the City of Moncton said he’s confident a permanent “damp” shelter will be established in the city, but it won’t be […]
US President Donald Trump was neither accused of nor charged with a crime by Robert Mueller, but the Special Counsel’s report, the redacted version of which was released on Thursday, does not clear the president of wrongdoing. This fact contradicts Mr Trump’s claims of complete and total exoneration. It also ensures that he remains in […]
A 63-year-old man has died from the injuries he received in a collision in Grand-Barachois, N.B., last week. New Brunswick RCMP say the crash at the corner of Cormier Village Road and Route 133 happened just before 10:30 a.m. on April 10. Police say the victim tried to turn left onto Route 133 when he was struck […]
Residents of Île-Bizard and Île-Mercier, just off Montreal’s West Island, say they found out Wednesday there aren’t enough sandbags to protect their homes from potential flooding. “[Let’s] not to wait for the water levels to get too high to deliver materials that citizens need,” argued Pierre-Luc Chauchon, who lives in Île-Mercier. “[The borough] should calculate […]
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada issued two safety advisories Thursday, following a deadly train derailment near Field, B.C. in February. Three Calgary men who worked for Canadian Pacific Railway were killed on Feb. 4 when their train derailed and plunged into a river east of Field, B.C. Conductor Dylan Paradis, locomotive engineer Andrew Dockrell and […]
Nine people were arrested after a rowdy crowd of about 200 people coming out of a show at Club Soda started getting aggressive in downtown Montreal. It happened at 12:30 a.m. Thursday near Saint-Laurent Boulevard and Sainte-Catherine Street. “Officers had to intervene for an animated crowd who came out of a show,” said Véronique Dubuc, […]
CAA Saskatchewan has launched its online vote to identify the province’s top 10 worst roads of 2019. People can nominate the worst municipal or provincial roads they have travelled on during the seventh annual campaign that started on Wednesday. Related $706M budgeted for Saskatchewan’s highways and roads in 2019-20 Mario Kart showdown between SGI and […]