Two people in their 20s were forced to evacuate their car as it slid off the road into the freezing waters of the Lac des Deux Montagnes in Vaudreuil-Dorion, just west of Montreal. The incident happened just after midnight Wednesday on de Breslay Street, a quiet road just north of Highway 40 that ends at the water’s edge. […]
A man has suffered serious injuries while working on a vehicle just south of Peterborough on Tuesday afternoon. Around 1:30 p.m., emergency responders were called to the area of Fallis Line near the village of Millbrook for reports that a man was working on a pickup truck when it ended up rolling over his head […]
US agents have fired tear gas over the border into Mexico at migrants trying to enter the country illegally. Around 150 Central Americans tried to make the crossing near the town of Tijuana to the south of California on New Year’s Day. One US official described the migrants as a “violent mob”. It comes as […]
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] More than 50 years ago, one of the main transit links between New York City and New Jersey was struggling to stay in business. It was saved by a political compromise between the governors of the two states. Today, […]
WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) – The US military command responsible for the nation’s nuclear weapons tweeted a New Year’s Eve message Monday afternoon: It is always ready to “drop something much, much bigger” than Manhattan’s iconic Time Square ball. The post and accompanying video went live as the country readied to ring in the new year […]
Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft has survived humanity’s most distant exploration of another world. Ten hours after the middle-of-the-night encounter four billion miles away, flight controllers in Laurel, Maryland, received word from the spacecraft that it had successfully completed its latest mission. Cheers erupted at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory, home to mission control. An […]
RIO DE JANEIRO — Just over four months ago, Jair Bolsonaro was fighting for his life after being stabbed in the gut during a presidential campaign rally. On Tuesday, after a quick recovery and an unlikely victory, he was sworn in as Brazil’s president, steering Latin America’s largest nation far to the right in a […]
Portage la Prairie RCMP are asking people in Winnipeg to help find a missing teenager. Police believe 19-year-old Helenne Loraine Beaulieu is in the city. She’s described as five feet seven inches tall, weighing 130 pounds, with long brown hair with blonde streaks. She also has a tattoo on her neck that says “Broadway.” The […]
As partygoers celebrated the end of yet another year, Urgences-Santé emergency responders were out on the roads, responding to over 330 calls. “That represents 33 per cent of our daily call volume just within six hours,” said Eddy Affram, a spokesperson for Urgences-Santé. Affram says the service prepares for six weeks in advance of the night’s […]
Police in Kentucky have posted a tweet mourning the loss of a doughnut truck, which was destroyed after catching fire. The driver of the Krispy Kreme Doughnuts vehicle noticed smoke billowing from the back as he drove through Lexington. While no one was hurt in the fire, all the doughnuts in the back were reportedly […]