Jan. 26, 2017: the day six Muslim men were shot and killed and 19 others were injured inside a Quebec City mosque. The incident produced shock across the country — and the world — as Canadians were confronted with the reality that their nation is not immune to hatred. Now, as the second anniversary of […]
An undocumented migrant has been detained after leaving a US church where he had been living in sanctuary for nearly a year. Samuel Oliver-Bruno, 47, reportedly left the North Carolina church to give fingerprints as part of an application to stay in the state with his family. But when he arrived for the meeting, US […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A couple from Louisiana have more than a million reasons to be grateful this Thanksgiving after discovering a long-lost jackpot-winning lottery ticket with only two weeks left to claim it. Harold and Tina Ehrenberg found the US$1.8 million (S$2.47 million) winning ticket, which won the southern US state’s June 6 Lottery Lotto […]
Hundreds of Central American migrants in Mexico have massed around a tense US border crossing, where security measures held up long lines of Mexicans travelling to Thanksgiving gatherings on the other side of the frontier. With few belongings, and many of them with children in tow, the migrants set out for the crossing from the […]
Sandra Parks knew too much about death, even at a young age. “We are in a state of chaos. In a city in which I live, I hear and see examples of chaos almost everyday. “Little children are victims of senseless gun violence,” Sandra wrote two years ago about gun violence in her Milwaukee neighbourhood. […]
Vice-Admiral Mark Norman‘s lawyers want to turn a senior Liberal cabinet minister’s words against him in their effort to exonerate the suspended military officer, who has been charged with leaking cabinet secrets. Court filings released Friday have Norman’s lawyer repeatedly citing Treasury Board President Scott Brison’s comments over the years to try to undermine his […]
Supporters of a Quebec man who has been in legal limbo in Cuba since the death of a fellow Canadian tourist nearly 16 months ago are taking their case for his freedom to the Cuban embassy in Ottawa. Toufik Benhamiche was prevented from leaving Cuba despite having a conviction on charges related to a fatal […]
A man has been shot and killed by police after a fight at an Alabama shopping mall resulted in gunfire that injured a teenager and a 12-year-old girl. A police statement said the shooting occurred shortly before 10pm on Thursday at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, near Birmingham. The statement said two Hoover officers in […]
Corus Kingston’s Clothes for Kids campaign has received half of the donations it needs for the year but still needs more donations to meet demand. The campaign, which is currently in its 30th year, invites people to donate snowsuits or money for the purchase of winterwear for children in the area. This year, Corus Kingston’s […]
In Saskatchewan, farming is done on a grand scale. So when I visited the Canadian Western Agribition in Regina this week for an upcoming story, I wasn’t surprised to find that the annual gathering of Western farmers is almost overwhelmingly large, luring 127,000 visitors last year to a city of 215,000. Like all agricultural exhibitions, […]