City tax notices in Kelowna could see a new levy tacked onto the bill. Kelowna city staff is recommending an infrastructure levy of 1.95 per cent. “The infrastructure levy is a common tool that B.C. municipalities are using,” Genelle Davidson, City of Kelowna’s divisional director of financial services, said. “Over 50 per cent of B.C. municipalities […]
Christmas is 12 delivery days away and Canada Post is not guaranteeing packages will be delivered to customers in time. According to Canada Post, 6 million parcels are backlogged and waiting to be delivered across the country. Vancouver and Toronto are the biggest centres facing backlogs, but many Saskatchewan shipments are processed through those plants. […]
James Alex Fields Jr’s claim that he acted in self-defence was rejected by a jury on Friday. The 21-year-old from Maumee, Ohio, showed no emotion as the guilty verdict was read out. Jurors convicted Fields of eight other charges, including aggravated malicious wounding and hit and run. Fields, who drove from Ohio to Virginia to […]
McGill University says it will decide next month what to do about its sports teams’ divisive Redmen name. The University’s provost says in a statement today he has received a report by a working group looking into commemoration and renaming practices at the university. The report offers no definitive recommendation on renaming the men’s teams […]
The basketball season tipped off for the R.I. Baker Middle School Bears on Thursday, and one of the coaches has been looking forward to it for months. Ty Slobodan graduated from the school last year, but due to an unknown medical condition he hasn’t been able to step back on the court. “I’m feeling pretty […]
US President Donald Trump will nominate State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert as US ambassador to the United Nations, two White House officials said – appointing someone with no prior policy or political experience to deal with some of the world’s thorniest issues. The decision was expected to be announced on Friday morning, the officials said, […]
LOS ANGELES — They are the forgotten people of Los Angeles — 1,457 people, to be exact. Old, poor, homeless, babies born premature and abandoned. They may have died alone, but they were buried together, in a mass grave, and were honored together this week in an interfaith ceremony that has been an annual ritual […]
A man in Edmonton who made international headlines for holding onto a wrapped Christmas gift from a high-school girlfriend who dumped him nearly 50 years ago finally learned what it was on Thursday when she travelled to the city and opened it for him. Adrian Pearce, now a married father of two, received the small […]
QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador’s president on Thursday ramped up the pressure on Julian Assange to leave his country’s embassy in London, saying Britain had provided sufficient guarantees that he would not be extradited to face the death penalty abroad. Mr. Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy since 2012. […]
A two-year-old US girl who needs several blood transfusions to fight cancer has spurred an global campaign to search for compatible donors. Zainab Mughal has one of the rarest blood types in the world, which makes it difficult to treat her condition. Campaigners say more than 1,000 people have been tested, but only three so […]