Health groups in Saskatchewan are encouraging residents to test their homes for radon. Radon is a naturally-occurring radioactive gas that can cause lung cancer and is responsible for killing more than 3,200 Canadians each year. That number amounts to more deaths annually than vehicle collisions, house fires, carbon monoxide poisoning and drownings combined. Sandy Hutchison, […]
After more than 60 years, General Motors announced Monday it’s closing its Oshawa, Ont., plant, saying the company is shifting its focus from traditional vehicles to electric and autonomous cars. The auto company said it’s closing the Ontario plant as well as four other facilities in the U.S., as part of a global restructuring move […]
Alabama police say a black man mistaken for an active shooter during a mall shooting had “heightened the sense of threat” by drawing his own firearm after shots rang out. Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr, 21, had “brandished a gun” as police responded to Thursday’s incident at the shopping centre near Birmingham, they said. Police initially […]
A “significant snowfall” will likely replace Monday’s mix of rain and snow in Ottawa this evening, with nearly 10 centimetres of powder expected by Tuesday night, Environment Canada is forecasting. The government weather agency has issued a special statement for the national capital and the surrounding regions, chalking the predicted snowfall up to a low […]
OSHAWA, Ont. – Shell-shocked GM workers streamed into the rain and chill wind after their union sent them home on Monday amid word that their plant would be closing by the end of 2019, dealing a blow to a city and region once synonymous with the automaker. As workers and their families digested the pending […]
The first lady posted a video and some photos of her in the president’s main residence on Monday, saying the house was “sparkling”. As first lady, one of Mrs Trump’s jobs is to decorate the presidential homes for the holiday season, leading the annual team of White House staff and volunteers to prepare the “People’s […]
SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN (BLOOMBERG) – General Motors said it will cut more than 10,000 salaried staff and factory workers and close five factories by the end of next year, part of a sweeping realignment as it prepares for a future with a greater number of purely electric vehicles. Four factories in the US and one in […]
Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating a crash in Guelph’s northwest end on Sunday morning that put a man in hospital with serious injuries. Police said they were called to the area of Bagot Street and Willow Road at around 4:30 a.m. for an incident. “In an unrelated occurrence, a driver fled the area at a […]
Orange County, Calif., long a bedrock of the Republican Party, won’t send a single Republican to Congress in January for the first time since 1940. The party lost four seats there in the midterms, mirroring Republican losses just outside Minneapolis, Detroit, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Seattle, New York and Washington, D.C. The election was a suburban […]
TAMPA • A spacecraft that cost nearly a billion dollars is on course to make a perilous landing on Mars today US time, if it can survive a high-speed approach and the scorching heat of entering the Red Planet’s atmosphere, a process Nasa has nicknamed “six and a half minutes of terror”. “There is very […]