[What you need to know to start your day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] The case involving the murder of Karina Vetrano, a 30-year-old woman who was murdered while jogging in a Queens park in 2016, ended in a mistrial late Tuesday night. After a day and a half of deliberations, 12 jurors […]
How many bags of trash do you throw out a week? People will want to start paying attention because by 2020, the City of Saskatoon will implement a pay-as-you-throw model meaning the bigger the garbage bin you require, the bigger the fee. “We decided that that new organics program would be funded by property tax […]
They are a familiar sight at farmers’ markets and public squares across California every election season: workers gathering signatures needed to place voter initiatives on the ballot. Nine people have been charged with felony election fraud after they went to a different part of town to collect signatures: Skid Row in Downtown Los Angeles. The […]
The Quebec government says surveillance and control measures in an area where deer were infected with a fatal disease will continue beyond a mid-November deadline. Hunting and trapping were suspended in the area in September after chronic wasting disease was first detected in farm-raised deer. A total of three cases have been identified on the […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US health officials warned consumers on Tuesday (Nov 20) not to eat any romaine lettuce and to throw away any they might have in their homes, citing an outbreak of E. coli poisoning. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued the warning against all Romaine lettuce just two days before […]
Police are investigating a suspicious vehicle incident in Brantford. Brantford Police say at around 1:30 p.m. on Friday, a 13-year-old girl was waved down by two men in an older model SUV in the Westchester Way and Oriole Parkway area. Police say the teen refused to approach the vehicle and took out her cell phone […]
Residents of a manufactured home park in Penticton, B.C., are calling on the City of Penticton to approve a deer cull in their neighbourhood. Park residents Nick Iannone and Robert Cartwright are spearheading the campaign and will make their case before a committee-of-the-whole meeting on Tuesday. Iannone said urban deer are wreaking havoc on Figueira’s […]
Pilates instructor Jessica Dalliday wanted to expand her business online, but she knew she couldn’t do it alone, so she reached to Peterborough’s Innovation Cluster, a program that helps startups establish their business. “I had a lot of help from the Innovation Cluster to make sure I was doing things properly, make a proper business […]
OTTAWA – The auditor general says the treatment you get from the Canada Revenue Agency depends on where in Canada you live and how friendly your local tax agent is. This violates the agency’s “taxpayer bill of rights,” which says every taxpayer deserves the same service as every other taxpayer in the same situation. Auditor […]
A Nova Scotia First Nation is offering a $100,000 reward for any information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for the death of a young mother in the community nearly a month ago. The We’koqma’q First Nation is offering the reward for information related to the death of Cassidy […]