A pair of southwestern Ontario residents are among the 103 new appointments to the Order of Canada. The president and CEO of Guelph-based manufacturer Linamar Corporation was named as a member on Thursday. In a statement, Rideau Hall said Linda Hasenfratz was recognized “for her efforts to develop economic opportunities in Canada and elsewhere, and […]
In an effort to bolster local paramedics’ mental wellness, the Ottawa Paramedic Service spent 2018 providing standardized mental health training to all its frontline staff and also doubled the size of its internal peer support team, the agency’s chief says. “I think paramedics have a unique experience in their work life that we manage and we […]
The creators of an Edmonton-based video game developing company have been recognized with one of the highest honours in Canada. Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk will be receiving the Order of Canada on Thursday for their work in creating and developing the video game company BioWare. Related BioWare, Edmonton Corn Maze team up […]
When Beckie Scott left behind her competitive cross-country ski career in 2006, the Olympic gold medallist didn’t foresee the path she would take next. A dozen years later, Scott has become a leading international voice to root out doping in sports and heads a charity that runs programs for Indigenous youth to use sports and […]
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — Claas Relotius, who spent weeks reporting in Fergus Falls last year for one of Europe’s most respected publications, could have written about the many residents who maintain friendships across partisan lines, about the efforts to lure former residents back to west-central Minnesota or about how a city of roughly 14,000 people […]
U.S. President Donald Trump is considering an executive order in the new year to declare a national emergency that would bar U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment made by China’s Huawei and ZTE, three sources familiar with the situation told Reuters. It would be the latest step by the Trump administration to cut Huawei Technologies […]
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] The private meeting last year between Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the Democrats in the New York State Senate was going as many did: Mr. Cuomo was pontificating and the Democrats were listening, neither side particularly pleased. The Democrats […]
A 12-year-old boy has been found alive after being buried under an avalanche in the French Alps for 40 minutes. The child, who has not been named, was skiing with his family in La Plagne and was hit by the avalanche after leaving a supervised run. He was later found with help from a sniffer […]
WASHINGTON • An eight-year-old Guatemalan migrant boy died early on Christmas Day after being detained by United States border agents, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said. He was the second migrant child to die while under US detention this month. The boy and his father were in CBP custody on Monday when a […]
New medical checks have been carried out on nearly every child in border patrol custody, US immigration authorities have said. These checks follow the death of a second youngster in the agency’s care in the space of less than three weeks. An eight-year-old boy, identified by Guatemalan authorities as Felipe Gomez Alonzo, died on Christmas […]