Attendees of the Raptors championship parade have shed more light on the situation involving a baby suffering a fatal medical episode at the event. On Thursday, Global News reported several first responders in the city were concerned with how the parade, which took place June 17, was “poorly planned” and lacked support. Toronto Police Association […]
A picture has been emerging of the main suspect in the killing of a woman near a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday. James Alex Fields Jnr, who is 20 years old and originally from Kentucky, was arrested and charged after a car was deliberately driven into a crowd of anti-fascism protesters. His […]
In the middle of Emancipation Park in Charlottesville on Saturday, two young women, one white and one black, took each other’s hands and held them tightly, and with their other hands they gripped the steel barrier in front of them. A few feet away, a young white man with a buzzed haircut and sunglasses leaned […]
A man who drove his car into a crowd of protesters in the US city of Charlottesville, killing a woman, has apologised as he was sentenced to life in prison. James Alex Fields Jr, 22, was sentenced for numerous federal hate crimes committed in the August 2017 attack. Heather Heyer, 32, died when Fields drove […]
On 12 August, the small, serene city of Charlottesville, Virginia will mark the anniversary of a deadly white nationalist rally that shocked the nation. The violence that day cost the life of a young counter-protester and scarred Charlottesville. An official report condemned city officials for failing to adequately prepare and police for standing by as […]
On the debate stage Thursday, Senator Kamala Harris raised her hand, seemingly in support of a government insurance proposal that would eliminate employer insurance. On Friday, she said she had misunderstood the question. The wording of the question left room for confusion, but Ms. Harris also has a history of making conflicting statements on the […]
Here is your guide for what services, attractions, major businesses and institutions are open and closed in Toronto on Canada Day (Monday). Attractions Art Gallery of Ontario – open between 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.Casa Loma – open between 9:30 a.m. and 10 p.m.CN Tower – open between 8:30 a.m. and 11 p.m.Ontario Science Centre […]
London fire crews responded to a farmer’s field west of the city on Friday morning after receiving reports of an ammonia tank leak. HAZMAT was called to the location on Gideon Drive as a precaution, but fire officials say the minor leak was quickly shut off with the help of the owner of the tank. […]
The provincial government has released the list of Alberta Parks day-use areas where people can drink liquor during the Canada Day long weekend. The announcement comes as part of the government’s commitment to relax alcohol use in parks across the province. Fourteen of the province’s day-use park areas will allow liquor, as long as there […]
Stripping terror suspects of citizenship does not increase national security and may even make it worse, legal experts told a conference on ending statelessness. They are particularly concerned over the increasing use of the measure by Britain which this year revoked the nationality of “Jihadi bride” Shamima Begum who left London to join the Islamic […]