An out-of-control wildfire is burning approximately 10 km northwest of Keremeos. BC Wildfire Service estimates the blaze is approximately two hectares in size. Air tankers and seven firefighters are currently responding. BC Wildfire Service is warning people that the fire might be visible from Highway 3A and surrounding areas. More to come… Related Two hikers, […]
A 14-year-old boy shot and killed five family members at their home in Alabama, before throwing away the pistol and calling police in the latest high-profile gun crime. The shooting happened on Monday night in the town of Elkmont, a spokesman for the Limestone County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office said five people were […]
In a major blow to Republicans who control the Legislature in one of the nation’s most bitterly divided states, a state court panel threw out North Carolina’s state legislative maps as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander and ordered lawmakers to draw up new ones in two weeks. The ruling on Tuesday by a three-judge panel in […]
It’s a day of firsts for many, with students heading back to school and starting their post-secondary journeys. Another person starting a new journey is Western University’s incoming president, Alan Shepherd. Although no stranger to working in the world of post-secondary education, this will be Shepherd’s first year at Western, taking over for former president […]
An Okanagan man is presumed drowned following a long weekend boating incident on Shuswap Lake, police announced on Tuesday. Salmon Arm RCMP say a 33-year-old man from Lake Country, Ryan Hartmann, was one of two people ejected from a cigar boat that was travelling east along Shuswap Lake with another cigar boat on Sunday evening. […]
A court has invalidated the provisions of Quebec’s cannabis law prohibiting home cultivation of the drug. Quebec Superior Court Justice Manon Lavoie ruled Tuesday that Quebec’s legislation infringed upon the jurisdiction of the federal government, which has sole responsibility for legislating on criminal matters. The judge ruled unconstitutional the sections of the Quebec Cannabis Regulation […]
Quebec Human Rights Tribunal sentenced a patient to pay $9,500 in moral and punitive damages for discriminating against a healthcare worker. According to the facts reported in the judgment, the complainant, who is of Arabic origin, worked as a nursing assistant in a hospital in the Montreal area. During an exchange with a patient, the […]
Victims of crime and tragedy living in central and northern Saskatchewan now have access to another form of support. A new service dog program is a partnership between the province’s health authority and Gateway Regional Victim Services (GRVS), a non-profit organization funded by the Ministry of Justice. Related Saskatoon company mourns ‘highly loved’ employee killed […]
The weather may have been hot, but Hamilton’s real estate market cooled off last month. The Realtors Association of Hamilton-Burlington (RAHB) says 1,067 homes were sold in August, down from June and July this year, as well as August of 2018. Year-to-date home sales have climbed 10.2 per cent in 2019 compared to this time […]
Federal officials have abandoned their latest attempt to deport Raed Jaser after the Ontario appeal court threw out his 2015 conviction for plotting to attack a Toronto-bound passenger train. The Canada Border Services Agency had argued at a hearing at Ontario’s Bath prison in March that Jaser, who was born in Abu Dhabi and is […]