While officers regularly advise citizens that 911 is for emergencies only, every year there are a handful of people who don’t quite get the message. From checking to make sure your phone works to reporting family members who give bad Christmas presents to asking about Daylight Savings Time, here are some of the weirdest, non-emergency […]
TORONTO — Canada Goose Inc. says its new store in Beijing has opened following a delay. The Toronto-based luxury parka maker has said the delay was due to ongoing construction. The announcement of the delay came in mid-December, in the midst of growing tensions between China and Canada following the arrest of Huawei chief financial […]
Just a few weeks ago, protesters marched through the Michigan Capitol claiming that Republicans were trying to subvert the will of voters and seize power from the Democrats who had just been elected governor, attorney general and secretary of state. The protesters’ worst fears did not come to fruition. On Friday, Gov. Rick Snyder, a […]
They stare out from the cover of ‘Time’ magazine’s annual Person of the Year issue, their faces picked out in monochrome. One – Jamal Khashoggi – is dead. Another – Maria Ressa – is hounded and threatened in the Philippines for shining an unwelcome light on the murky extra-judicial killings that have defined Rodrigo Duterte’s […]
Al Jazeera captures the separation of families at the US-Mexico border. The United States has been accused of serious human rights violations in its crackdown on migrants trying to cross the border after fleeing poverty and crime in Central America. US President Donald Trump’s administration has been blamed for a policy of separating families. […]
Robert Riley Saunders is a former B.C. social worker who is accused of opening joint bank accounts with children in his care, then stealing the money. In Supreme Court, the provincial government has admitted vicarious liability in this case. However, there’s another defendant involved, and Interior Savings Credit Union has filed its civil claim response. […]
Outrage over video showing NYPD officers violently yanking toddler from his mother’s arms at Brooklyn food stamp office. A video showing police officers violently yanking a toddler from his mother’s arms at a Brooklyn food stamp office last week prompted outrage, with public officials expressing horror and clients of the facility complaining it is indicative […]
OTTAWA — The Canadian Space Agency says it wants to hire former astronaut Robert Thirsk to help it figure out how to contribute medical expertise to a human mission to Mars. Thirsk is a medical doctor who holds the Canadian record for time spent in space, thanks to an extended mission on the International Space Station […]
A Canadian citizen who was detained in China amid frosty relations between the two countries has been released and returned to Canada, media reports say. Teacher Sarah McIver, from Alberta, was held earlier this month for “unlawfully working in China”. Global Affairs Canada confirmed that a Canadian citizen had been released, but did not name […]
A woman broke a hospital’s record for the heaviest newborn after giving birth to a 14-pound, 13-ounce baby. Jennifer Medlock gave birth to her son Ali earlier this month and was shocked to learn he was the heaviest baby ever born at the hospital in Texas. The mum-of-two and her husband Eric welcomed their son […]