The Calgary Police Service is looking into a vandalism case after a northeast elementary school was defaced with multiple racist and homophobic graffiti messages. The offensive words and symbols were discovered Friday morning on parts of St. Clare School in Coventry Hills. By late afternoon, a painting crew was seen covering up and removing the […]
The Lake Country Art Gallery is opening a new exhibit this weekend with the goal of making art accessible and affordable to the public. “It’s called Under 100. It’s an annual show at the Lake Country Art Gallery that consists of hundreds of original artwork,” said Lake Country Art Gallery president Sharon McCoubrey. “Each one […]
LOS ANGELES — These are the places seared into the memories of local residents, the places many people who just come to visit never see. Now, after the fires that ripped through Southern California this month, they are unrecognizable, or unimaginable, as the spots where nature brought joy, peace or relief. The wildfires in Los […]
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said earlier this week that Canada — despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s staunch support of Saudi Arabia — does not consider the case of Jamal Khashoggi‘s killing to be over. “Canada very much does not consider the Khashoggi affair to be closed,” Freeland said at an Ottawa press conference on Tuesday. […]
Mélanie Boulbes stood in the lineup of shoppers outside Best Buy starting at around 7 a.m. Friday morning in downtown Montreal. For Boulbes, who moved to Canada from France last March, the idea of Black Friday is a new concept. She wanted to see what the frenzy was all about — and she knew she […]
Police investigate report of suspicious occurrence Police in Kelowna say they are investigating a “suspicious occurrence” of a child being yelled at, then grabbed and placed inside a truck on Friday morning. Police say the occurrence took place at approximately 8 a.m., in the area of Hardie Road and Hemlock Road, adding that another child […]
US President Donald Trump has accused climate change scientists of having a “political agenda” as he cast doubt on whether humans were responsible for the earth’s rising temperatures. But Mr Trump also said he no longer believed climate change was a hoax. The comments, made during an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes, come less than […]
A 63-year-old VIA Rail staff member suffered life-threatening injuries after he fell under a train Friday afternoon. Truro Police Chief Dave MacNeil says the incident at the train station in Truro happened at 2:50 p.m. MacNeil says the victim was exiting the train when he became entangled and fell onto the tracks. He was transported […]
WASHINGTON • Amazon.com has informed some customers that their names and e-mail addresses had been “inadvertently disclosed” as a result of a “technical error”, but declined to provide more details about the security incident. The e-commerce giant confirmed it sent the messages on Wednesday, adding in a subsequent statement that it had “fixed the issue”. […]
A roadmap to ending homelessness in Peterborough by 2024 is nearly half complete. On Friday, around 50 people took in a community consultation to give feedback over how the first five years of the plan has gone as well as give ideas on how to tackle the final five years of the plan. “We’ve created […]