“My son would have turned three in January. Not a day goes by when I don’t wish I could have saved him or traded places with him.” In 2016, Jason Langston and his wife, Susan, had a stillborn son they named Calvin. “The last couple of years have been incredibly challenging to say the least,” […]
Children took full advantage of the five-centimetere snowfall that hit the Montreal region, blanketing the hill sides of the Beaconsfield Golf Course. Dozens of children dusted off their toboggans and hit the slopes after being cooped up inside during the holidays. “I played video games and watched TV all day,” Beaconsfield sledder Justin Guindi said […]
In the first week of 2019, a young mother lost her life to an overdose in Halifax. The death of Terri-Lynn Burgess, 29, has renewed conversations around the possibility of opening an overdose prevention site (OPS) in the municipality. Many harm reduction advocates feel an OPS is a crucial step in preventing future overdose deaths in […]
A Vancouver woman wants to thank the stranger who helped after her car was broken into on New Year’s Day. Natasha, who asked that her last name not be used, said she and her boyfriend spent New Year’s Eve moving back in with his mother, who lives in the West Point Grey area, in an […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Donald Trump said on Friday (Jan 4) a New York Times report that he was considering former Democratic Senator Jim Webb to be his next defence secretary was “fake news”. The Times, citing an unnamed official, said on Thursday that Vice-President Mike Pence and acting White House Chief of Staff […]
The holidays have come to an end, but there is still fun to be had throughout Waterloo region this weekend. There will be New Year’s levee celebrations on Sunday in Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo, but the fun does not stop there. Here are some ways to entertain yourself in and around the tri-cities this weekend: […]
A 61-year-old man from the Dominican Republic has been waiting for his day in federal immigration court since the 1980s, unable to visit his dying mother back home or, in recent years, legally hold a job. His trial was finally to come next week. But because of the federal government shutdown, he stands to lose […]
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] State Senator John J. Flanagan, who until this year led the Republican majority of the state’s upper legislative chamber, will miss the beginning of this year’s session in Albany in order to complete an alcohol rehabilitation program, he announced […]
A Canadian man trying to bring two bottles of whisky to U.S. President Donald Trump was arrested outside the White House in Washington, D.C., early Wednesday morning for entering a restricted area. A court filing obtained by Global News shows the man, identified as Yianny Georgopoulos, said he was trying to bring the president two […]
US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi Speaker has shrugged off a new lawmaker’s use of a profane epithet to assail President Donald Trump. Democrat Rashida Tlaib courted controversy when she used explicit language while calling for the president’s impeachment. Ms Pelosi on Thursday said while she would not use such language, it was no worse […]