It’s been a couple days of meeting with delegates and stakeholders in Paris for New Brunswick’s deputy premier. Robert Gauvin, the minister responsible for La Francophonie, tourism, heritage and culture, formally withdrew the province’s bid to host the 2021 Francophonie Games Thursday. “I wish to assure you of our government’s full cooperation during the coming transition […]
To be the most liveable, midsized city in North America. It’s a bold objective but that, in a nutshell, is the City of Ottawa’s end goal as it embarks on a three-year endeavour to update the city’s official plan – essentially a master blueprint for the national capital’s future growth and development. And councillors are […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are in Beijing this week as Chinese and American negotiators try to hammer out a trade deal to ease a trade war and avert an increase in US tariffs on Chinese goods scheduled for March 2. The governments of the world’s […]
Greater Sudbury Police say they have charged a man with a number of child pornography offences after a search warrant was executed in the city on Wednesday. Police said they began investigating a Sudbury resident in October of last year after they allegedly downloaded child pornography on a file sharing site. Investigators allege explicit content […]
The Canadian War Museum officially launched their newest exhibit on Wednesday which illustrates, through photography, scars both physical and mental suffered by Canadian forces members who served in Afghanistan. Dubbed “The Wounded,” the exhibit features 18 photos taken by photographer and former journalist Stephen J. Thorne. The black and white photos show the soldiers in […]
The Calgary Police Service will be increasing some of its user fees for 2019. Employment police information checks, record suspension police information checks, occurrence summary reports and collision reconstruction reports will all see an increase in charges, the police service said in a news release Thursday. The CPS said the increases are due to increased […]
It’ll be a busy weekend in Guelph. There are plenty of activities and events planned in the Royal City for the Family Day long weekend. Here are just a few of the things going on around the city throughout the weekend. Guelph Storm in action The Guelph Storm will play a pair of home games […]
For the second time this week, a New Brunswick MP is speaking out over a political controversy involving his own party. Saint John-Rothesay representative Wayne Long continues to weigh in on the scandal involving construction giant SNC-Lavalin, former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould and the Prime Minister’s Office. An emergency meeting of the federal justice committee […]
The lawyer of the woman charged with throwing a chair off a Toronto highrise said she was under peer pressure and is now traumatized by the event. But even if her lawyer does bring up the alleged peer pressure in court, experts say it doesn’t hold weight as a legal defence. Marcella Zoia, 19, a […]
Search and rescue members had to spend the night outdoors on Wednesday while rescuing a lost skier near Big White. Central Okanagan Search and Rescue (COSAR) said it received a report of an overdue skier just after 8 p.m., and that search teams along with Kelowna Snowmobile Club members gathered for the rescue. According to […]