Drivers who use Highway 407 Express Toll Route (ETR) are going to notice an increase in price beginning Feb. 1. According to the highway’s 2019 rate chart, travelling costs in all zones have increased since last year, some by as much as 14 per cent, depending on when and where you are driving. Drivers commuting […]
CARACAS/MOSCOW (REUTERS) – US President Donald Trump spoke to Venezuela’s self-proclaimed interim president by phone on Wednesday (Jan 30), reiterating support for his “fight to regain democracy”, as Washington’s push to force socialist President Nicolas Maduro from power picked up steam. The White House said Trump and Juan Guaido, the opposition leader trying to replace […]
Judge tells Larry Nassar she signed his ‘death warrant’ after sentencing him to up to 175 years in jail for sex abuse. A former US Olympic team doctor has been sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for sexually abusing athletes and patients for decades. The sentencing follows a seven-day hearing in which 156 […]
The search for a missing man in B.C.’s Interior is now in its third day. Ben Tyner was reported missing on Monday after loggers found a riderless horse north of Merritt. Local ranchers helped retrieve the horse and identified its owner. Tyner, 32, was last seen Saturday afternoon. It’s unknown when Tyner rode into the […]
The ACLU-DC amends a lawsuit to include allegations that DC police pepper sprayed a 10-year-old boy and his mother. Police officers “knocked down” a 10-year-old boy and exposed him and his mother to pepper spray during a rally against US President Donald Trump’s inauguration, according to amendments to a lawsuit filed by a civil rights […]
US President Donald Trump has said he accepts US intelligence agencies’ conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election – despite declining to do so just a day ago. He said he had misspoken on Monday and had meant to say he saw no reason why it was not Russia that meddled. The original comments, […]
President Donald Trump has called US intelligence agencies “naive” on Iran and also dismissed their assessment of the threat posed by North Korea. “Be careful of Iran. Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!” Mr Trump tweeted. The testy response came after a US intelligence report said Iran was not making nuclear weapons. It also […]
CHICAGO — A deep, brutal cold set in across the Midwest on Wednesday, sending temperatures plummeting to depths that stunned even Midwesterners, a group accustomed to shrugging off winter. The cold that the middle of the country woke up to on Wednesday was the sort that makes cars moan, that makes breathing hurt, that makes […]
The driver of a city of Hamilton salt truck that hit a pedestrian bridge on the Kenilworth Access has been charged with careless driving. Police say the truck’s bucket was raised when it struck the bridge Monday morning, scattering its load of salt across the upbound lanes. Police say the driver, a 59-year-old man, suffered […]
The home where Chris Watts chillingly killed his two daughters and his pregnant wife is to go up for sale. The $550,000 Colorado property is set to be auctioned off after going into foreclosure. Evil Watts, 33, murdered his pregnant wife Shanann, 34, and their daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, inside their family home […]