Investigators in the US have said that a boy claiming to have been kidnapped eight years ago is not missing Timmothy Pitzen. The 14-year-old boy’s DNA does not match that of the boy who vanished in Wisconsin during a trip with his mother in 2011. Timmothy was six years old when his mother Amy Fry-Pitzen […]
Lawyers representing Quebec smokers say three major tobacco companies are seeking a “get-out-of-jail-free card” by securing creditor protection in a different province after a court ordered them to pay out billions of dollars. The companies — JTI-Macdonald Corp., Rothmans, Benson & Hedges and Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. — were granted protection from their creditors in […]
Former NDP MLA Denise Peterson-Rafuse says she’s “beyond disappointed” in the response to allegations of aggressive and inappropriate behaviour made against Education Minister Zach Churchill. “Our premier is trying to make light of all of this with all these excuses, saying that no one spoke to him,” she said. Peterson-Rafuse is one of two former […]
Two cars of a Via Rail passenger train derailed about half an hour northwest of Moncton on Thursday afternoon. The company tells Global News the incident happened at about 12:35 p.m., while the train was heading to Halifax. There were no reported injuries among the 94 passengers and 15 crew members. Chief Mark Perry of […]
The world’s richest man, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has accused the owner of a US gossip magazine of trying to blackmail him over private pictures. He said the National Enquirer’s parent company, American Media Inc (AMI), wanted him to stop investigating how they had obtained his private messages. Hours after Mr Bezos announced his divorce […]
It’s a day many want to forget. It’s the people they want to remember. “I always have him with me now,” former Humboldt Broncos hockey player Ryan Straschnitzki says after a three-hour tattoo session in Calgary. Permanently inked into the skin of his right arm is the motto of Broncos head coach Darcy Haugan: “It’s […]
For nearly a decade, hundreds of letters that Staff Sgt. Vincent J. Rogers Jr. wrote home have been displayed at a California museum, bearing witness to the transformation of a New York teenager into a World War II radio operator deployed in the Pacific. Scrawled with folksy good humor, the letters have been all that […]
Longtime public affairs and communications consultant David Goyette is the new campaign chair for the United Way Peterborough and District. The ceremonial torch was passed Thursday morning as 2018-2019 chairperson Megan Murphy wrapped up her role with Goyette now assuming the role for 2019-2020. The campaign officially launches on Sept. 18. “I am honoured to […]
Buying and selling second-hand items has become a booming business and according to a recent report by Kijiji, the online buy-and-sell site, second-hand transactions aren’t slowing down anytime soon. “For my kids, everything, I find [shopping second-hand] better, you can find some great stuff even here, Value Village, anywhere,” said Aimee Davis, who was shopping […]
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says the “unjustified” and “illegal” imposition of tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum by the U.S. as leverage in the new NAFTA talks is no longer needed as “the deal is done.” Freeland told reporters in Washington, D.C., that the continued existence of the steel and aluminum duties makes ratifying […]