The Vernon Winter Carnival has cancelled one of its more visually attractive events for 2019, Balloon Glow, citing extenuating circumstances. The annual carnival is slated to take place Feb. 1-10, and Balloon Glow was scheduled to take place on opening day/evening. However, on Wednesday, the North Okanagan Hot Air Balloon Society announced the cancellation of […]
The executive director of the $65-million Canadian Canoe museum project in Peterborough is confident funding will come through, despite the recent change in the provincial government. Global News Peterborough spoke with executive director Carolyn Hyslop, who says she’s confident things will move forward, as a transfer payment agreement is already in place. The previous Ontario […]
When Nancy Pelosi is sworn in as Speaker of the House on Thursday, she becomes not just the third most powerful US politician but also the leader of the Trump opposition. Both loved and loathed, her comeback story is an extraordinary tale of political survival. After eight years in the political wilderness, Nancy Pelosi is […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Donald Trump is due to unveil a revamped US missile defence strategy on Thursday (Jan 17) that looks at ways to boost America’s security, including by possibly deploying a new layer of space-based sensors to detect and track enemy missiles. The Missile Defence Review will also recommends studying experimental technologies, […]
A 23-year-old Quinte West man has been charged after crashing his vehicle into a light standard, a fire hydrant and finally a church on Dundas Street East in Marmora. The collisions occurred at approximately 3:10 a.m. Wednesday, but when police, firefighters and EMS arrived, the driver had fled. He was located a short time later […]
Matt Duchene couldn’t have scripted the night any better. With his dad in the stands and playing his first game since he became a father himself, Duchene scored twice and added an assist in the Ottawa Senators’ 5-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday night. Duchene missed the last three Senators games to be with […]
A Canadian national has been abducted in northern Burkina Faso, according to media reports. The man was kidnapped on Tuesday night from a mine near the border with Niger, Security Minister Clement Sawadogo told reporters. This is the second case of a Canadian going missing in the West African country in recent weeks. Canadian officials […]
Allegations that US President Donald Trump could have worked for Moscow’s interests were dismissed as “absurd” and “stupid” by Russian officials. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a news conference that US media reports claiming that Mr Trump might have been a Russian agent reflected a dramatic plunge in standards of journalism. Mr Trump said […]
Hasher Jallal Taheb, 21, of Cumming in Georgia, was arrested on Wednesday after trading his car for guns and explosives, officials said. He is charged with attempting to damage or destroy a building owned by the US using fire or an explosive. According to an affidavit filed by an FBI agent, Taheb had planned to […]
Jocelyne Lizotte’s Alzheimer’s disease left her unable to care for herself, but she was not considered to be at the end of life before she was allegedly murdered, a physician testified Wednesday at the trial of Lizotte’s husband. Dr. Micheline Pelletier told Michel Cadotte’s jury trial that by the time Lizotte arrived at the Emilie-Gamelin […]