A giant plume of smoke colored by bright blue light exploded into the night sky on Thursday in Queens, causing people across New York City to gawk in awe before the authorities determined an electrical transformer was to blame. The bizarre sight set off a frenzy on social media, where people reported power failures at […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, has asked a US judge to dismiss a lawsuit by a British diver who helped rescue a boys football team trapped in a Thailand cave and said Mr Musk defamed him by calling him a paedophile and child rapist. In a filing on Wednesday (Dec 26) […]
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Its market value briefly surpassed $1 trillion. It has transformed online shopping. And it has had North American cities holding out billions to deliver its new outposts to their doors. Expansion south, into the nation where Amazon’s namesake river ends, may prove a little harder. “Amazon is still kind of irrelevant […]
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – More Americans blame President Donald Trump than congressional Democrats for the partial United States government shutdown, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday (Dec 27), as the closure stretched into its sixth day with no end in sight. Forty-seven per cent of adults hold Mr Trump responsible, while 33 per cent […]
Regina Police Service have confirmed that the deceased man, whose body was found on Dec. 21 is 19-year-old Promise (Max) Chukwudum. Police were called to the 5000 block of Sherwood Drive at around 4:45 p.m. on Dec. 21 for the report of a man who appeared deceased. Officers secured the immediate area and requested the help […]
The old Gino’s Pizza building, which currently stands vacant, caught fire on Christmas Eve with one man trapped inside. The man, trapped on the second floor of 557 Princess St., was quickly rescued by the Kingston Fire Department, which responded to the scene. It took around four hours and 21 firefighters to extinguish the blaze. Kingston’s […]
Nick Ayers couldn’t reach an agreement with US President Donald Trump over the all-important White House role. Nick Ayers, currently chief of staff for United States Vice President Mike Pence, has declined an offer by President Donald Trump to become his chief of staff. The refusal on Sunday comes days after Trump said his current […]
Yves Lévesque, the mayor of Quebec’s ninth-largest city who was courted by the federal Conservatives for a possible 2019 run with the party, resigned from city hall Thursday citing health reasons. Lévesque had been mayor of Trois-Rivières, located on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Quebec City, since 2001, and is […]
Winter is here and the early days of the season have already brought plummeting temperatures and blustery wind chill factors. On days when temperatures are particularly frigid or there are other extreme weather factors, a community warming centre is open in downtown Halifax. “We’ve been outside right now for about four minutes, and I can […]
Gerald Hill, the mayor of Wolseley, Sask., is expressing his disappointment after its Hometown Co-op shut down late last week. Customers were notified on Dec. 20 the doors would permanently close at 6 p.m. the following day. Related UFCW picketers rally outside FCL in downtown Saskatoon Local business owners say Saskatoon Co-op picket line having […]