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Brazil’s New Leader Wants to Ease Gun Laws. Supporters Are Ready, and Training.

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — For Natalia and Rubens Ortega, the only remaining question is: Glock or Taurus? The young couple signed up for a gun-training course at a shooting club in São Paulo just days after Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right former Army captain, was elected Brazil’s next president on the strength of his promise to […]

Lobster fishing boat sinks off coast of Hackett’s Cove

A lobster fishing vessel capsized off the coast of Hackett’s Cove on the opening day of the lobster fishing season. Maj. Amber Bineau with Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre (JRCC) confirms that the vessel in Lobster Fishing Area 33 sunk shortly after the beginning of Dumping Day. Bineau says fishermen on a nearby vessel were able […]

Trans advocates want VPL to scrap event featuring controversial feminist

An upcoming talk at the Vancouver Public Library is stirring debate over LGBTQ rights and the the limits of free speech. The event features feminist speaker Meghan Murphy, the editor of Feminist Current, who has been permanently banned from Twitter. The January talk, slated for the VPL’s central branch, is billed as a discussion on […]

Trump rejects Paris accord, but his diplomats are still negotiating

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Next week in Poland, a discreet delegation of American diplomats will settle in for two weeks of international climate negotiations, along with their European, Chinese and other counterparts they have mixed with for years. The fact that US President Donald Trump announced in June 2017 that the US would withdraw from the […]

Woman dead after being hit by vehicle in Mississauga

Peel police say a 65-year-old woman is dead after being hit by a vehicle in Mississauga Friday evening. Police said they were called to the area of Winston Churchill Boulevard and Duncairn Drive just before 8 p.m. When authorities arrived on scene, the woman was transported to hospital in life-threatening condition. She was later pronounced […]

No bull: B.C. home to one massive steer

It’s been a news week of cows — giant ones. There’s Dozer in Manitoba, measuring 6-foot-5. And Knickers, the Australian steer, coming in at 6-foot-4, followed Cowboy of California at 6-foot-6 and about 3,000 pounds. Add B.C. steer Buddy to the list. “His last measurements were 6-foot-5 and a half,” said owner Jim Saiko of […]

What caused the strobe light party on a southwest Calgary street Friday morning?

If Calgarians’ early-morning commute took them down 26 Avenue S.W. on Friday morning, they may have inadvertently found themselves in what looked like a strobe light party. Global1 chopper captured video of the street lights along a stretch of 26 Avenue S.W. — from Crowchild Trail to 14 Street S.W. — flashing like a strobe […]

Turcot closures for the first weekend of December

The déjà vu continues on the Turcot interchange as Transports Quebec has announced a fresh set of closures to kick off the month of December. If you plan on heading downtown this weekend via Highway 20 or the Décarie Expressway, plan your route. Most of the Turcot interchange will be closed as of 11 p.m. Friday, […]