The body of a man listed as missing after his kayak was discovered without a paddle near Powell River last week has been found. The news was posted Sunday night on the Facebook page of 48-year-old Jesse Farrand’s sister. Sunshine Coast RCMP issued a brief statement announcing the discovery Sunday evening of Farrand’s body just […]
White officer Daniel Pantaleo was suspended without pay for 30 days over death of unarmed black man, Garner, in 2014. A white New York Police Department (NYPD) officer who put an unarmed black man in a fatal chokehold five years ago should be fired, a police judge recommended, in a case that stoked the Black Lives […]
Awkward pictures capture the moment Donald Trump puckers up before kissing Angela Merkel. The pair, who have had a frosty relationship in the past, appeared to be on friendlier terms when they met at the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, yesterday. They were part of a line up of world leaders that included Boris Johnson […]
Dozens of people attended a West Kelowna skateboard park memorial for the teen who drowned in Okanagan Lake. Fifteen-year-old Jaxsn Cahill jumped into the water near Ferry Wharf on Aug. 17 but never resurfaced, according to police. Although emergency crews rushed to the scene, Jaxsn could not be resuscitated, RCMP said at the time. Friends […]
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Amid growing international alarm over fires in Brazil’s Amazon region, neighboring Bolivia is facing devastating fires of its own, with flames devouring farmland and environmentally sensitive forests alike. In midst of the calamity, the country’s president, Evo Morales, suspended his re-election campaign on Sunday and, in a shift, welcomed foreign aid. […]
Kathy Assiniboine has lived in her Leduc, Alta., home in the Corinthia Park neighbourhood for 20 years. During this time, her house and vehicles have been vandalized, she said. “The first couple of weeks that we moved here, someone wrote across our driveway, ‘Go back to the res,’” Assiniboine said. “Over the years people [threw] […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Donald Trump suggested dropping nuclear bombs on hurricanes before they made landfall in the United States, Axios reported Sunday (Aug 25). During a hurricane briefing, Mr Trump asked if it were possible to disrupt hurricanes forming off the coast of Africa by dropping a nuclear bomb in the eye of […]
Montreal police are investigating a suspicious fire that burned six trucks in Anjou Saturday night. Authorities received a call around 11 p.m. from a witness who saw several trucks in flames, Montreal police spokesperson Const. Julien Lévesque said. The trucks were parked in the back of a business located at the intersection of Bombardier Street […]
An Irishman from Co Tyrone has been hospitalised following a lightening strike at a golf tournament in the US. The man was among six people injured after lightening struck a tree at the PGA Tour event in Atlanta yesterday. Five people were hospitalised and another person treated at the scene after being injured by debris […]
The Saskatchewan government says the federal carbon tax is killing jobs, but experts and even the province’s trade minister say it’s not that easy to calculate. The government reports that jobs are down in the oil and gas sector by about 1,400 and by another 1,500 in mining compared with July 2018. The province brought […]