US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is going to make a cameo appearance in the new Lego movie. Justice Ginsburg, known affectionately to her supporters as the “Notorious RBG”, will appear as a Lego minifigure – complete with gavel and robes. She was not required to do voice work for the film, but has […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) – As Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro arrives in Switzerland on Monday (Jan 21) on his first trip abroad, to attend Davos, he is leaving behind a suspicious payments scandal involving his politician son Flavio Bolsonaro. Flavio, a senator in the incoming congress, is under growing scrutiny by a government financial watchdog […]
Peterborough County OPP say three drivers were charged with impaired driving following vehicle stops on the weekend. In each stop, police said they determined the driver was under the influence of alcohol. On Saturday around 3:45 a.m., OPP stopped a vehicle on Television Road in Peterborough. The driver, Tesla Guitard, 20, of Cavan-Monaghan Township, was […]
LOS ANGELES — A police officer is shot dead in Whittier by a gang member. A mentally ill homeless man walks into a steakhouse in Ventura and stabs a man to death in front of his family. In Bakersfield, a man angry over his divorce goes on a shooting rampage, killing his ex-wife and four […]
It is 5.10pm Tuesday (Jan 15) and the Seaport Buffet restaurant in Brooklyn is packed with diners when Arthur Martunovich storms in with a hammer in hand and bashes the restaurant owner, a Malaysian Chinese, on the head. Fearing they are next, horrified patrons and restaurant employees try to escape, but the 34-year-old construction foreman […]
Date at the Rainbow Room Dear Diary: In 1958 the woman who would become my wife and I both lived at Trinity House, a coed residence for college graduates on Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights. She worked in Midtown, and I worked on Broadway near Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan. We decided to meet for […]
Stargazers have been scanning the skies for sightings of a highly unusual lunar eclipse, which began on Sunday night. During the spectacle, known as a “super blood wolf moon”, the moon appears to glow red while seeming brighter and closer to Earth than normal. The event was initially visible from North and South America, as […]
Students at a Catholic school who were involved in a video showing them mocking Native Americans after a Washington rally could be expelled. In a joint statement, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington and Covington Catholic High School apologised and said they were investigating and will take “appropriate action, up to and including expulsion”. The […]
Three decades ago, Donald J. Trump waged a public battle with the talk show host Merv Griffin to take control of what would become Mr. Trump’s third Atlantic City casino. Executives at Mr. Trump’s company warned that the casino would siphon revenue from the others. Analysts predicted the associated debt would crush him. The naysayers […]
The escalating fight with China over its detentions of two Canadians requires Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to show clear “leadership.” And he should start by banning Huawei. That was the argument made by Erin O’Toole, the Conservative foreign affairs critic, in an interview with the West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson. Speaking hours after an in-camera briefing […]