It has a hashtag, a website, and it’s a global movement. “Giving Tuesday is about being engaged, and that can be giving time treasure and talent — so it can be a donation but it’s also time,” said Brenda Boyes from the Peterborough Area Fundraising Network. Boyes says the movement began in 2012, and it […]
The Ontario government is introducing reforms to protect full-time firefighters who also serve as volunteer firefighters. Provincial Labour Minister Laurie Scott says the “double-hatters” often risked fines or dismissal if they chose to serve as volunteers. The MPP for Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock says new reforms for Bill 57 included in last week’s Fall Economic Statement aim […]
An estimated 300 firefighters, including 35 from the Saskatoon Fire Department, were in Rosetown, Sask., on Tuesday to honour and remember Darrell Morrison. Morrison, 46, was killed on Nov. 21 while at a crash between two semis on Highway 4 north of the town, 110 kilometres southwest of Saskatoon. Related Daughter of Rosetown firefighter writes […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort held secret talks with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, including around the time the lobbyist joined Trump’s bid to win the presidency, The Guardian reported on Tuesday (Nov 27). Manafort went to the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2013, 2015 and then “around March 2016” to […]
Women in Alberta are facing an increasing risk of being murdered by an intimate partner and crisis calls are up 10 per cent in two years, according to new data from the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters (ACWS). The ACWS released its 2018 statistics on Tuesday, which showed shelters are serving more women, children and seniors […]
Charges have been laid against the driver of the transport truck that crashed on the Red Hill Valley Parkway last week. The tractor trailer struck the CP rail bridge that crosses Red Hill just south of King Street around 4:30 a.m. on Nov. 22, spilling 44,000 litres of liquid asphalt onto the roadway. The parkway was […]
After two of the biggest shopping days of the year — Black Friday and Cyber Monday — it’s time for Giving Tuesday. Tuesday marks the sixth annual National Day of Giving and officially kicks off the giving season. For Andrew Lindsay, chairman of the board of directors for the LaSalle Action Centre, it represents an […]
Chris Watts treated his daughters to pizza and let them FaceTime their granddad just hours before he murdered them. The killer was planning what to do with the bodies of his pregnant wife Shanann, and daughters Bella, four, and Celeste, three, as he spent the weekend with his children. Documents relating to the heart breaking […]
A Quebec teen who drowned during a high school gym class spent 38 minutes at the bottom of the pool without anyone noticing. Coroner Louis Normandin’s report into the death of Blessing Claude Moukoko last February says swimming courses taught as part of the education curriculum must be better managed. Related Girl drowns in family […]
The Canadian Coast Guard has refloated one of its ships after it was cut from its cradle at a Nova Scotia shipyard over a week ago. The CCGS Corporal McLaren had been partially submerged with 2,600 litres of diesel fuel in its tanks and 400 litres of hydraulic fluid on board after it was allegedly […]