[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] The Tuesday evening rush was all but over as the man walked, unsteadily, down the stairs onto the subway platform. A train, its doors already closed, was picking up speed as it pulled out. In a few terrifying seconds, […]
Alberta is giving $80 million in future royalty credits for construction of a new methanol plant in the province’s northwest. Premier Rachel Notley says Nauticol Energy is to start construction on the $2-billion plant near Grande Prairie next year with an opening set for 2020. She says the project is expected to create 3,000 jobs. […]
The BC Review Board has ruled child killer Allan Schoenborn “remains a significant threat” and has denied his request for “mandatory outings.” However, at the same time, the board ruled the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam, where he’s being held, may allow outings if certain conditions are met, such as ensuring that he be escorted […]
OTTAWA — Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the federal government will introduce its pre-election budget on March 19. The document will be the Trudeau government’s fourth budget since the Liberals won the 2015 election — and its final one before October’s federal election. Morneau made the announcement today in the House of Commons. The budget […]
The United We Roll pro-pipeline convoy protesting in Ottawa has run into some division within its ranks. Now, some convoy supporters are accusing convoy lead organizer Glen Carritt of not distributing crowdsourced funds as promised — accommodation costs and fuel cards for the drivers in the convoy. The GoFundMe campaign raised more than $130,000 in […]
Every year, Peter Winternitz creates a snowman in his front yard during winter. This year, he explained to Global News, was no different, except with so much snowfall, “he just got to be fatter and bigger than normal,” he told Global News. The snowman, which doesn’t have a name, is almost as tall as Winternitz’s […]
On Tuesday Bernie Sanders announced he would seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. On Wednesday he demonstrated why he will be a formidable candidate. In 24 hours the Vermont senator amassed $6m (£4.6m) in small-dollar campaign contributions from more than 225,000 supporters. That number dwarfs the rest of the Democratic field, including the previously […]
The Houston Police Department will largely end the practice of forcibly entering homes to search them without warning, the police chief said this week, following a deadly drug raid last month that the agency conceded might have been based on faulty information. The change, announced Monday night, came days after Chief Art Acevedo said that […]
Jurors hearing the case of a Montreal man accused in the killing of his ailing wife will have to weigh two possible verdicts. Quebec Superior Court Justice Helene Di Salvo told the eight-man, four-woman jury that they must find Michel Cadotte guilty–the only question is whether his crime was second-degree murder or manslaughter. The judge […]
Canada will not sign on to an amendment to an international treaty that could bar three dozen countries from shipping any kind of garbage, even recyclables, to the developing world. The amendment to the Basel Convention that puts limitations on shipments of hazardous waste was proposed more than 20 years ago but has resurfaced in […]