Tracy Muggli, the director of Mental Health and Addiction Services at the Saskatchewan Health Authority, has been working to break the cycle of crystal meth addictions by improving services to users. Related Babies born addicted to drugs up 42 per cent at St. Boniface Hospital Treatment beds, enforcement and funding: how to improve Sask. addictions […]
A woman went viral after a video of her launching a homophobic tirade at a man getting a pedicure in a nail salon has been shared across social media. Christopher Brown shared the video to Facebook after the incident occurred on 30 December at Casabella Spa & Nails in Lynnwood, Washington, where it has since […]
There will be a federal cabinet shuffle on Monday. Global News has confirmed the shuffle comes as a result of the decision by Treasury Board President Scott Brison to resign after 22 years as an MP. READ MORE: Scott Brison resigns from federal Liberal cabinet No time has yet been set for the shuffle. However, it […]
Residents in southern New Brunswick experienced a minor earthquake Thursday morning. Natural Resources Canada reports the epicentre of the quake was 35 kilometres north of Saint John and it occurred at 9:49 a.m. The 3.7 magnitude earthquake was felt in Saint John and Grand Bay-Westfield. According to Earthquakes Canada, the depth was 10 kilometres, which […]
CAIRO (REUTERS) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Barack Obama on Thursday (Jan 10) of sowing chaos in the Middle East by failing to adequately confront Islamist militants in a blistering critique of the policies of President Donald Trump’s predecessor. Speaking in Cairo, the site of a major speech Obama gave in 2009 […]
A Saskatoon city councillor wants council to take another look at the city’s organics program. Council approved a city-wide curbside organics collection program by a 7-4 vote in October 2018. Funding for the program is through property taxes. Coun. Randy Donauer originally voted in favour of the program, but has since had second thoughts. Related Coun. […]
Scott Brison is resigning from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s cabinet after deciding he won’t run for re-election this fall. After 22 years representing the Nova Scotia riding of Kings-Hants, Brison says he’s ready for a change and looking forward to spending more time with his four-year-old twins. In a tweet issued moments after the news […]
Two 11-year-old schoolgirls who took their own lives within months of each other were in love and struggling with their sexuality while being bullied, their parents suspect. Madissen Paulsen shot herself with her dad’s gun in December 2017 and just two months later her best friend Sophia Leaf-Abrahamson was found hanged at her family home. […]
Follow our live blog at the bottom of this story. This is day 17 of Dennis Oland’s retrial for the second-degree murder of his multi-millionaire father, Richard. Testimony continues to be dominated by Saint John, N.B., police accounts of their investigation, after Richard Oland’s battered body was found in his uptown office in July 2011. […]
WASHINGTON – The American business community generally welcomed the latest round of US-China trade talks but it highlighted the absence of agreement over a concrete way of ensuring that Beijing delivers on its promises, a much tougher challenge for the future. Implementation of any deal must be “subject to ongoing verification and effective enforcement”, a […]