New numbers suggest teenagers continue to abandon Facebook in favour of other social media platforms, which is likely no surprise for parents of young adults. Global News met with about a dozen students at Lillian Osborne High School in Edmonton and no one said they use Facebook. Related Want to take a family gap […]
Employers in New Brunswick will be taking a big hit next year when it comes to what they have to pay in workers’ compensation premiums. As expected, WorkSafeNB has increased its assessment rate for a third straight year. The increase, which amounts to in excess of 70 per cent, will give New Brunswick the highest […]
Members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) in Orillia, Midland and Parry Sound are among the latest group of employees to walk off the job as part of the ongoing rotating strikes. According to the union’s Twitter account, beginning on Nov. 8, the employees joined several other union locals across the country on […]
Time is running out before a possible faculty strike at Western University. The union representing roughly 1,650 faculty members will be in a legal strike position as of 12:01 a.m. Friday. In the event of a walk-out, most classes will be cancelled, LTC buses will not enter campus, and professors will be advised by the […]
WHEN Donald Trump invited Jim Acosta, a CNN reporter, to ask a question during a White House press conference on Wednesday, he was no doubt spoiling for a fight. Mr Trump has a notoriously testy relationship with the journalist and once refused to call on him, simply saying “your [news] organisation is terrible”. But even […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – A US appeals court in California ruled on Thursday (Nov 8) that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue a programme begun under former President Barack Obama that protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children. The decision by the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court […]
Sergeant Ron Helus died of gunshot wounds as he moved in to try to stop Ian David Long’s killing spree at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, about 40 miles west of Los Angeles. The married father-of-one was among 12 people to have been killed by the 28-year-old US Marines veteran, who is […]
Erin and John Nymann from Cambridge, Ont., love their six-year-old daughter, Favour. But because of months of government inaction and a bureaucratic process immigration lawyers call “redundant,” the couple was forced to return their daughter to the Nigerian orphanage where they adopted her nearly four months ago. Now the Nymanns are back in Canada, without their […]
CHICAGO (AFP) – A US grand jury on Thursday (Nov 8) indicted the captain of a boat that sank in a Missouri lake during a summer thunderstorm, killing 17 people on board. The vessel known as a “duck boat” went down July 19 on Table Rock Lake near the city of Branson. The amphibious vehicle, […]
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says a backbencher who was kicked out of her caucus doesn’t understand that politics is “a team sport.” Notley says Calgary legislature member Robyn Luff’s desire for unfettered freedom and independence doesn’t mesh with politicians who need to work as one to get things done in a parliamentary democracy. Related Alberta […]