A father-of-two is fighting for his life after collapsing during a lads' holiday. Richard Phillips fell to the floor of the bathroom in his Marbella holiday apartment and had to be rushed to A&E on Saturday. Scans showed he had suffered a major bleed on the liver which required doctors to perform emergency surgery, Birmingham […]
People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier has doubled down after attempting to discredit an internationally recognized teenage climate change activist by calling her “mentally unstable.” After facing scorn on Twitter for his remarks on Greta Thunberg on Sunday, Bernier did not back down in an eight-part tweetstorm the following day. He called Thunberg “the international […]
The suspected gunman in Saturday’s mass shooting in Texas had been fired that morning, and called police and the FBI before his attack, US media report. Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke reportedly said both the shooter and his company rang 911 after he was fired but he left before police arrived. FBI agent Christopher Combs […]
Building a national park is certainly not a new idea but it’s one that city councillor Marvin Rotrand argues will save Montreal potentially hundreds of millions of dollars. Rotrand claims a national park should be built instead of a massive urban green space in the West Island as proposed by Mayor Valérie Plante. The councillor […]
A two-vehicle collision on the Highway 1 intersection at Highway 21 in Maple Creek caused injuries for those involved, according to RCMP. It’s not known how many people were involved or who exactly sustained injuries. The collision happened in the westbound lanes of the highway. RCMP said one lane was closed while officers and EMS […]
The governors of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina have ordered evacuations for coastal communities in their states. Florida is a major destination for Canadians year-round. LIVE UPDATES: Follow our liveblog here for the latest info on Hurricane Dorian Hurricane Dorian is slated to move “dangerously close” to Florida’s east coast late Monday through Wednesday evening […]
The United States Coast Guard is searching for 34 missing people after a boat caught fire just off Santa Cruz Island in Southern California early Monday morning, a spokesman for the Ventura County Fire Department said. Five people were also rescued from the boat, one of whom was being transported to shore with moderate injuries, […]
The Calgary Fire Department said a house in University Heights sustained “severe damage” in a fire that was caused by a lightning strike early Monday morning. Crews responded to the house fire at 2:15 a.m. The home was damaged, as was a nearby tree. The fire department said two adults were home at the time […]
An eight-year-old boy has become the first victim of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, where winds of up to 200mph are ripping roofs from homes, overturning cars and tearing down power lines. The storm has caused devastation over the northern Bahamas, with more than 13,000 homes destroyed or damaged, according to the International Federation of […]
Students at St Edward Catholic School in Nashville, Tennessee will no longer be able to borrow copies of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series from the school library. This is because the school's pastor has removed all seven of the magical books from library shelves, after taking issue with their portrayal of magic. According to an […]