Amnesty International accuses US government of conducting ‘discriminatory campaign’ against migrant rights defenders. The United States government is waging a campaign against lawyers, journalists and activists who support the rights of migrants and asylum seekers and document abuses along the US-Mexico border, according to a new report by Amnesty International. The report, published on Tuesday, […]
A clash between conservative marchers and black-clad protesters in Portland this weekend, which left a conservative journalist roughed up and bloodied, has renewed attention in a movement dedicated to confronting white supremacists, right-wing extremists and, in some cases, ordinary supporters of President Trump. Known as antifa, a contraction of the word “anti-fascist,” the loose affiliation […]
A medical centre in eastern New Brunswick has reopened after being closed for a week. The Shediac Regional Medical Centre was shut down after a car accidentally crashed into the building on June 25. According to a previous statement released by the Vitalité Health Network, three people were in the car that crashed into the […]
A demonstration aimed at calling attention to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls led to one protester being placed in handcuffs in Toronto on Monday. In an online video, protester Keitha Keeshig Tobias can be seen wearing a sign and standing in front of a statue of John A. Macdonald at Queen’s Park on […]
An American football star who sparked a furore by kneeling during the national anthem has been unveiled as one of the faces in a major advertising campaign. Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is appearing in Nike’s “Just Do It” 30th anniversary campaign. In 2016 Kaepernick refused to stand for the anthem in protest […]
A fire broke out on Monday night in a residential building in Ahuntsic-Cartierville. Shortly after 9 p.m., a 911 call was placed for a five-alarm fire in a triplex on Lajeunesse Street near Émile-Journault Avenue, police said. The fire was controlled by firefighters and one person was treated for smoke-related injuries on site. There were […]
A woman has caused outrage after a video of her licking a tub of ice cream and then putting it back in the shop freezer went viral. Footage shared on Saturday shows the woman tonguing a family-size Blue Bell ice cream at a grocery store, then putting the lid back and placing it back on […]
US police are investigating the arrest of a black patient in Illinois who was detained near a hospital while attached to an intravenous (IV) machine. Shaquille Dukes says he went for a walk on his doctor’s orders, but was held after a white security guard accused him of trying to steal the machine. Mr Dukes […]
It was by now a familiar scene of summer street warfare in Portland: Conservative marchers, this time pushing a #HimToo message in one of the nation’s most progressive cities, faced down a rowdy group of anti-fascist protesters. Soon the tensions escalated, with a black-clad activist striking the conservative journalist Andy Ngo in the face while […]
Some notices of driving offenses languished in an electronic queue that no one was responsible for checking. Others — tens of thousands of violation notices sent by mail — were simply sorted into bins and left in a records room. Yet another set of notices seemed to have disappeared entirely. After a devastating crash last […]