Business owners and residents in Edmonton’s Chinatown are pushing for changes to improve the area they say has seen an increase in social disorder. Fion Le has run an herbal medicine store along 98 Street for more than 20 years. She says the number of derelict buildings and amount of drug use has increased lately. […]
Durham police have designed a bite suit after Leafs player Mitch Marner, whose charity donated money to purchase new K-9 training equipment. “That’s pretty cool what Mitch did for us,” said Det. const. Wes King. “Let’s do something for him in our little world, and let’s make our suit look like a Mitch Marner jersey.” […]
BIARRITZ, France (REUTERS) – Melania Trump has never met Kim Jong Un, or even spoken to him, but US President Donald Trump said on Monday (Aug 26) that his wife has “gotten to know” the North Korean leader and, like him, believes in the reclusive country’s potential. Trump, who has met Kim three times since […]
A staff member at Summerhill Winery in Kelowna has been fired and arrested after a hidden camera was discovered in the staff washroom, according to staff and RCMP. On August 23, police were told that somebody found what they thought was a small camera concealed in the staff washroom at the winery. Police arrested a […]
A young Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was standing outside his station in Lancaster, Calif., last week when, he said, two gunshots erupted from a nearby apartment building, one of the bullets grazing him in the shoulder. He was rushed to a hospital, and hundreds of law enforcement personnel embarked on a dayslong manhunt that […]
Kingston police made short work of an armed robbery case early Monday morning. Police were called to the Circle K convenience store on Princess Street at University Avenue just before 1 a.m. to investigate the robbery. It’s alleged a man armed with a knife and a scarf covering his face came into the store demanding […]
Two people are dead and another is in hospital after a serious crash in Kelowna early on Monday morning. RCMP were alerted to the crash at Highway 33 and Bryden Road at approximately 5 a.m. The van involved in the crash being taken away from the scene at Highway 33 and Bryden Road. A female […]
The Granby Zoo is celebrating after welcoming two jaguar cubs to its animal family this summer. The organization says that Taiama, a seven-year-old jaguar, gave birth to her third and her fourth babies during the night of Aug. 6. “For the moment, we are giving the mother all the calm and intimacy necessary to look […]
Harvey Weinstein has appeared in a New York court to plead not guilty to a new indictment that includes revised charges of predatory sexual assault. The development means the movie mogul’s trial has been pushed back from 9 September until January. Weinstein was in and out of the court quickly and did not speak to […]
When your doctor gives you health advice, and your insurer pays for the recommended treatment, you probably presume it’s based on solid evidence. But a great deal of clinical practice that’s covered by private insurers and public programs isn’t. The British Medical Journal sifted through the evidence for thousands of medical treatments to assess which […]