Two Edmonton men, including a former Tory MLA, have been charged with a number of immigration fraud-related charges following an investigation by the Canada Border Services Agency. Both men are licensed immigration consultants, the CBSA said in a media release Tuesday morning. Between November 2015 and October 2016, they are alleged to have employed unauthorized […]
A woman is dead in cottage country a few hours southeast of Winnipeg after apparently being attacked by a bear. Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said the incident happened Sunday evening at Red Pine Island, a private vacation spot on Lake of the Woods. Police said the woman, 62, had gone to check on her dogs […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Vice-President Mike Pence, currently visiting Ireland, has chosen to stay at a golf resort owned by Donald Trump, renewing controversy over spending taxpayer money on the president’s family businesses. The Trump International Golf Links & Hotel is located in Doonbeg, on the west coast of Ireland, about 300km from Dublin where […]
For years, fishermen off the U.S. east coast have faced tight restrictions on fishing gear and vessel speed restrictions to ensure their activities do not harm marine mammals, including the endangered North Atlantic right whale. But in Canada, it was only after right whales began turning up dead in large numbers in 2017, many of […]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Florida has survived so many major hurricanes that the lessons the state has learned the hard way could fill a textbook for disaster preparation and response. Perhaps no truth is more frightening than the fact that a storm need not reach Category 5 strength — or even strike land — […]
Toronto Fire say they have knocked down a large fire that erupted at a vacant multi-unit complex that was under construction in North York on Monday night. Emergency crews were called to Altamont Road, near Yonge Street and Finch Avenue West, at around 8:50 p.m. for reports of a fire. Fire officials say there were […]
A six-year-old girl snatched from her mother's arms as she walked to school asked for a burger and to see her brother in the moments after she was found alive. Little Amy-Lee de Jager is the daughter of F1 powerboat racing champion Wynand de Jager and a ransom demand for two million rand – about […]
DALLAS — When a lost, stray or abandoned pet entered an American city’s animal shelter 10 years ago, there was a good chance it would not leave. But in a quiet transformation, pet euthanasia rates have plummeted in big cities in recent years, falling more than 75 percent since 2009. A rescue, an adoption or […]
Divers have found a total of 25 bodies on Monday after a pre-dawn fire sank a scuba diving vessel off a Southern California island, leaving nine people unaccounted for as the search continued, media reported. Representatives for the Coast Guard’s division in Los Angeles and the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office could not immediately be reached […]
The police in St. Paul, Minn., said at least one person was shot outside the main gate of the Minnesota State Fair late Monday. By The New York Times The number of victims in the shooting was not immediately known, and the police did not say if a suspect had been arrested. Witnesses on social […]