For decades, the sign atop the Marcal Paper Mills plant had been a landmark for New Jersey drivers, its red neon light a beacon to weary travelers that told them how close they were to home. But on Wednesday night, roads near the iconic sign in Elmwood Park were illuminated by something else: a raging […]
RCMP divers have recovered human remains and items from the site of a plane nearly 60 years ago in northern Saskatchewan. The single-engine Cessna 180 vanished on Aug. 20, 1959, with pilot Ray Gran and Saskatchewan conservation officer Harold Thompson onboard. They were on a short flight from Buffalo Narrows to La Loche to investigate poaching […]
The Nova Scotia government has agreed to the certification of a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging systemic abuse of deaf students decades ago. Lawyer Ray Wagner says in a statement that the province and the Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority will not oppose the proposed certification of the case involving the School for the Deaf in […]
Despite being labelled an “extreme risk” and banned from B.C. Lottery Corp. casinos, Paul King Jin, the alleged “No. 1” loan shark who was being tracked in the RCMP’s massive E-Pirate investigation, was able to continue funding VIP gamblers at River Rock casino unimpeded, according to allegations in documents obtained by Global News. And three […]
Nova Scotia’s health minister says he’s been assured there will be a plan within weeks aimed at helping free up ambulance crews to respond to 911 calls. The paramedics union released figures today to highlight what it says is a growing problem for the province’s health care system. It says there were 989 incidents when […]
Vice-Admiral Mark Norman‘s lawyer has raised the prospect that government officials used several more undisclosed identifiers to refer to her client in internal communications and hide any paper trial. Lawyer Marie Henein proposed several potential identifiers while questioning Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan‘s chief of staff Thursday about government efforts to gather thousands of documents requested […]
Quebec’s minimum hourly wage is going up to $12.50 as of May 1 — a $0.50 increase. Workers who receive tips will see their salary increase by $0.25 per hour bringing their hourly wage to $10.05. Raspberry pickers will now receive an extra $0.15 per kilogram; strawberry pickers will see an increase of $0.04 per […]
Statistics Canada says real gross domestic product shrank by 0.1 per cent in November. The decrease partly offset an increase of 0.3 per cent in October. The report was in line with estimates that the contraction would be 0.1 per cent for the month, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon. “October now looks to have been […]
The London Transit Commission (LTC) is looking for answers from the province after the Ford government said it’d let post-secondary students opt out of ancillary fees. As of the end of January, LTC general manager Kelly Paleczny said it’s unclear whether those additional fees would include transit. “We’ve already built that guaranteed revenue stream into […]
Juan Guaidó, the Venezuelan opposition leader, wrote in an opinion article published Wednesday evening that his opposition coalition had met with members of the powerful armed forces to galvanize support for a change in government. Mr. Guaidó, the head of the country’s National Assembly, last week declared himself interim president in a direct challenge to […]