A man running on a popular park trail in the mountains of northern Colorado killed a mountain lion after it pounced on him from behind. Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) officials say the man sustained serious injuries after he was bitten on his face and wrist by the young male lion. The man, who has […]
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) will release more details about a deadly train derailment in B.C. at a Tuesday morning news conference. The conference, which will be held in Calgary at 11 a.m. MT, will be live streamed on GlobalNews.ca. The crash on Monday near the Alberta-B.C. border killed the train’s three-person crew, […]
Kingston’s Griete Wemekamp, 67, and her husband Bernd Rummel, 72, are on the hunt for a new primary health-care provider. “It’s really scary and this in a province, in a country — that prides itself on its medicare system. It’s clearly broken.” On Friday, Jan. 25, the couple received a letter stating their family physician […]
In an effort to build and continue to foster its relationship with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities, the Canadian Canoe Museum has hired a new director to lead its community work with Indigenous Peoples. Robin Binèsi Cavanagh has been named the museum’s first director of Indigenous Peoples’ Collaborative Relations and has already begun his work […]
A former refugee judge who once wrote that most refugees are liars was recently rehired by Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) to decide asylum claims, Global News has learned. Lubomyr Luciuk — who once said he “had no choice but to become ‘Dr. No’” because he denied so many refugee claims — gained notoriety […]
ATLANTA — A senior aide to a former mayor of Atlanta collapses on a courtroom floor after hearing that she is headed to prison. F.B.I. agents in Los Angeles haul away computers and documents during a raid of a veteran councilman’s office. News cameras trail the most powerful alderman in Chicago as he walks to […]
BATON ROUGE, La. — It was a squabble over $2.9 million in property-tax breaks — small change for Exxon Mobil, a company that measures its earnings by the billions. But when the East Baton Rouge Parish school board rejected the energy giant’s rather routine request last month, the “no” vote went off like a bomb […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Senate approved by a large majority Monday an amendment critical of President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan, in a sign of the deep discontent caused by the policies within his own Republican ranks. The resolution was sponsored by the Republican leader of the Senate Mitch […]
It was a day of tears and bittersweet smiles at the Alberta legislature as Premier Rachel Notley and other dignitaries paid tribute to former premier Jim Prentice. The official portrait of Prentice was unveiled as his wife, Karen, and family looked on in the legislature rotunda. Prentice served as Alberta’s 16th premier but left politics […]
An MMA fighter suspected over two murders who escaped from a prison van in Texas was recaptured less than a mile away still wearing his jail-issue orange jumpsuit, police have said. Cedric Marks escaped from the van on Sunday morning when guards with the Texas Prisoner Transportation Service stopped at a McDonald’s in Conroe, about […]