Unifor national president Jerry Dias is expected to make an announcement Friday morning on the next action in the union’s push to save the General Motors assembly plant in Oshawa. Earlier this week, the union ruled out a potential boycott of GM pointing to the work done by Unifor workers in Ingersol and St. Catharines, Ontario. […]

Jonas Mekas did many things in his long life, but one thing he did better than almost anyone — the last thing he did — was model how to live as a vital New Yorker at age 95. That came to an end this week at 96, as Jonas died in his home, after months […]

The family of injured Humboldt Broncos player Ryan Straschnitzki is focusing its attention closer to home ahead of next week’s sentencing hearing for the truck driver who caused the team’s deadly bus crash. While many Humboldt players and their families will be in a Melfort, Sask., court on Monday, the Straschnitzkis won’t be. Instead, their […]

As I got off a train in Manhattan on Wednesday, I paid little attention to a flutter out of the corner of my eye on the subway. Then another passenger told me that I had dropped some money. “That isn’t mine,” I told her as I glanced at what turned out to be $90 on […]

Cannabis NB is touting revenues of more than $8 million dollars in its first quarter. Those unaudited results show in-store revenue of $8.2 million, online sales of $400,000, oils and capsule sales represented nine per cent of sales at $800,000 and accessories rang in at at $300,000. “Overall, we are pleased with how the stores […]

Accessing abortion has become increasingly difficult in parts of the US. As a result, a growing number of reproductive rights activists say it is time American women learn the facts about “self-managing abortion” with pills. Kate could tell something was wrong. She’d been feeling nauseous for days and her body just felt different. The 27-year-old […]

At the time of his assassination in 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was living in a brick home on Sunset Avenue in an Atlanta neighborhood known as Vine City. The civil rights leader had moved there in 1965 — the year after he was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize — and the […]

Soon after Jayme Closs, 13, disappeared in Wisconsin in October, officials offered a $50,000 reward for information that would lead to her safe return. Now Jayme, who escaped from a kidnapper after she was abducted and her parents were killed, will receive at least half of it. That $25,000 was donated by Hormel Foods, the […]

Questlove has described Madison McFerrin’s music as “soulappella.” DNA might be partially responsible. The singer is the daughter of Bobby McFerrin, the jazz vocalist, and the granddaughter of Robert McFerrin, Sr., the first black man to sing at the Metropolitan Opera. Ms. McFerrin, 27, a graduate of Berklee College of Music, is currently working on […]

In 2018, the Edmonton International Airport served more travellers than ever before, launched more flights, and expanded commercial, cargo and retail development. Passenger services More than 8.2 million travellers passed through the Edmonton International Airport last year: an increase of 5.8 per cent from 2017. The airport said international travel saw the biggest jump: sun […]