Aretha Franklin grew up in 1950s Detroit, surrounded from childhood by the now-famous faces of the civil rights movement. Her songs would become their anthems. Her Baptist minister father was the organiser behind the 1963 Detroit Walk to Freedom – the largest-ever demonstration for civil rights in the US until the March on Washington later […]
Operation Red Nose is a program in which a team of volunteers will pick you up and and drop you off in your own vehicle, helping people avoid impaired driving during the holidays. Starting Friday, Nov. 30 in Winnipeg, you can call 204-947-NOSE between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. for a ride home. Throughout Operation […]
SilverStar flung open its doors on Saturday for the 2018-19 ski season and approximately 2,000 guests hit the resort’s slopes. Originally, the resort was slated to open earlier in the week, but had to delay plans due to incomplete snow coverage. Precipitation on Thursday and Friday filled in those blanks, and Saturday’s blue skies created […]
The first freight train to arrive in Churchill, Man., in a year and a half is expected to roll into town on Saturday night, according to Churchill’s mayor. Freight and passenger service was halted in the town after flooding washed out portions of the railway in May 2017. “On this first one, I think it’s vehicles […]
Two student-athletes from the University of Alberta were taken to hospital Saturday morning after a minor motor vehicle collision involving the team bus. Connor Hood, communications co-ordinator for U of A Athletics, said the crash happened around 1:30 a.m. Saturday just south of Leduc, Alta., on the QE2. The U of A Pandas hockey team […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A policeman appears to have shot and killed the wrong person in responding to a shooting in an Alabama shopping mall that left two others wounded, police said on Saturday (Nov 24), correcting an earlier account of the Black Friday incident. Police in Hoover, Alabama, originally said 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford pulled […]
The B.C. government is planning on building more than 1,100 affordable homes for Indigenous peoples in 26 communities across the province. Housing Minister Selina Robinson unveiled the first set of homes selected through the Indigenous Housing Fund Saturday afternoon, which includes nearly 780 off-reserve homes, and close to 370 homes on-reserve. The commitment makes British Columbia […]
Search crews are still carrying out the meticulous task of combing through ash and debris that are now damp and muddy. Destroyed neighbourhoods are being searched for a second time as hundreds of people are still missing. They are looking for traces of bone or anything that looks like a pile of cremated ashes. Craig […]
Nothing says winter has arrived quite like an open skating rink. The city of Toronto is opening 32 of its 54 ice skating rinks this weekend for the winter season. The city-run outdoor rinks generally operate from 9 a.m. till 10 p.m. seven days a week, and run up until March Break. Some hours may […]
A man and a woman, both 57, are dead after a single-vehicle crash Friday night in Shefford, Que., roughly 90 kilometres east of Montreal. The crash happened at around 8 p.m. on Highway 243, also known as Chemin Foster. Sûreté du Québec (SQ) spokesperson Claude Denis said the vehicle flipped over several times before crashing […]