West Wind Aviation said it continues to focus on safety improvements as it marks the first anniversary of the Fond du Lac plane crash. The ATR 42-320 with 22 passengers and three crew crashed shortly after takeoff on the evening of Dec. 13, 2017 in the northern Saskatchewan community. Related TSB eliminates engine failure as […]
A funeral is going to be held this weekend for Hamilton’s ninth homicide victim of the year. Joshua Leo, 17, died on Dec. 7 after being stabbed inside his mother’s car on Pinewarbler Drive, in what police described as a drug deal gone wrong. Visitation for Leo will be held at Bay Gardens on Friday […]
Mexican President AMLO begins process to undo education reforms and make study free, but at what cost? Mexico’s new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, or AMLO, is undoing the controversial education reforms launched by his predecessor that sparked violent protests by teachers. AMLO has proposed a new plan that would scrap teacher evaluations and make […]
MOJAVE, California (AFP) – Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, flew higher than it ever has before on Thursday (Dec 13), surpassing what the US Air Force considers the boundary of space, and marking the first manned flight to space from US soil since 2011. The brief, suborbital flight – with two pilots on board – […]
A mum-of-seven has been jailed after nearly starving her five-year-old stepson to death. Tammi Bleimeyer, from Spring, Texas, was sentenced to 28 years in prison after starving the boy, forcing him to wear a nappy and making him sleep in a grimy closet. The 37-year-old was found guilty of injury to a child by omission […]
According to the Sûreté du Québec, a body has been found in Mexico that could match that of missing Laval woman Christine St-Onge. Mexican media outlets are reporting the body was found near the Los Cabos hotel where missing Laval woman Christine St-Onge was staying with a male friend. Authorities say her male travel companion returned […]
The man, who was physically exhausted and suffering from dehydration, likely “would not have survived another day given the circumstances,” Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post. Sheriff’s officers and the Alameda County Fire Department were called to a disused Chinese restaurant in San Lorenzo, around 25 miles east of San Francisco, to […]
The seizures started when Andi Dreher was three years old. Every six months or so, in quick succession, she’d have two or three grand mal seizures — the muscle-contracting kind we often imagine when someone says “seizure.” Still, her mother Lori Dreher told reporters Wednesday, the doctors would adjust her medications and Andi would keep […]
Quinte West couple’s daughter struck and killed by vehicle on same day their house goes up in flames
There was a tragic turn of events on Wednesday in Quinte West, Ont., as a woman was struck and killed by a vehicle in front of her parents’ home, which had burned down just hours before. Candice Canning was interviewed by Global News after she arrived at her parents’ home on Bellevue Drive just after 10 […]
VANCOUVER – A pizza delivery to the Vancouver home of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou turned into an unexpected lunch on Wednesday for members of the media camped outside. When six pizza were delivered to Meng’s house the delivery driver was instructed to take four of them to reporters and photographers who were stationed on the sidewalk. Meng […]