The 44-year-old man who was behind the wheel of a school bus when it hit two teens in west Edmonton last month has been charged. Hung Duong was charged with careless driving after a school bus hit two 13-year-old girls in the area of 206 Street and Hemingway Road, police said in a news release […]
A little girl caught a ghastly infection on the soles of her feet after walking barefoot through a pigsty. The 10-year-old had lesions on her feet for days after playing in the mud. Doctors at a primary care clinic in New England, US, diagnosed her with a parasitic infection caused by sand fleas that burrow […]
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Los Angeles traffic is so bad that buses crawl along at less than 12 miles an hour. In San Francisco, car speeds have fallen to 10 miles per hour. And Seattle’s streets are so choked it needs to find […]
Hamilton police are investigating a street robbery in the city. Around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, police say two men were walking along Emerson Street at Ward Avenue, when they were approached by two men on bicycles. Police say one of suspects was armed with a possible handgun, and demanded a cell phone and its password from […]
West Shore RCMP have confirmed that the body recovered from Glen Lake on Vancouver Island on Sunday was that of missing Langford man Joshua Bennett. The 31-year-old was last seen on March 9 after leaving Langford Lanes bowling alley around 9 p.m. His body was recovered from the lake around 5 p.m. on Sunday after […]
Taxi drivers are meeting with Quebec Transport Ministry officials in a bid to convince them to conduct a study on the impact of proposed deregulation. As he headed into the meeting, Abdallah Homsy, a representative for taxi drivers, asked the premier, the transport ministry and members of the Quebec government to exercise restraint in their […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The United States has halted delivery of equipment related to the stealthy F-35 fighter aircraft to Turkey, sources familiar with the situation said, marking the first concrete US step to block delivery of the jet to the Nato ally in light of Ankara’s planned purchase of a Russian missile defense system. In […]
Quebecor is taking a satirical online publication that closely resembles its daily Journal de Montréal to court, arguing trademark infringement. A lawyer representing Media QMI, the subsidiary of the media conglomerate that publishes the tabloid, is accusing the Journal de Mourréal satirical site of imitating the paper’s design in an effort to drum up online […]
The Saskatchewan government said the provincial sales tax (PST) won’t be charged on the federally imposed carbon tax when it comes to SaskPower and SaskEnergy utility bills. The province said appropriate changes to the law have been made to ensure it doesn’t happen. “Even as our government is fighting this harmful tax in court, the […]
Focus Montreal introduces Montrealers to the people who are shaping our community by bringing their stories into focus. The program airs on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. as well as Sunday at 7:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and midnight. Take a look at who we’re meeting this week. Meningococcal B identified as strain that killed Montreal woman Montreal […]