Several residents of a downtown Kingston condominium who were forced out because of a structural issue may be waiting longer to return to their homes. Fifteen units at Harbour Place, which is located at Ontario and Clarence streets, had to be evacuated over two weeks ago because of a concrete problem along one side of […]
Donald Trump threatened to attack Iran in retaliation for any strikes by Tehran "on anything American". The threat came after Iran said new US sanctions precluded any diplomacy and called the White House actions "mentally retarded." "Iran's very ignorant and insulting statement, put out today, only shows that they do not understand reality. "Any attack […]
Wellington County OPP say a four-year-old boy has died after a farm accident near Mount Forest, Ont., on Monday afternoon. Emergency crews were called to an address on Sideroad 5 at around 4 p.m. for reports that a tractor had struck a child. Firefighters and paramedics found the boy unresponsive and he was pronounced dead […]
Ottawa fire services say a garage fire destroyed a car and damaged several homes in Vanier Tuesday morning. Ottawa Fire says it received a call at 3 a.m. with reports of a garage on fire. Upon arrival, firefighters declared it a working fire and began to tackle the blaze. The flames were completely extinguished by […]
Cities have targeted online home-sharing platforms like Airbnb in their fight to address the affordable housing crisis, charging the companies with taking rental homes away from local residents. In Toronto, some 6,500 homes have been pulled from the housing market, according to a January report from Fairbnb, a Canadian coalition advocating for fairness in the […]
Nova Scotia has announced a new program that will see the province invest $570,000 over the next two years into the seafood industry in the province. The fund, called the Seafood Accelerator Program, was announced by the province’s Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Keith Colwell. Nova Scotia says the program will assist seafood companies to […]
Iran’s president has responded with defiance to the latest sanctions imposed by the US, saying they show it is lying about wanting dialogue. Hassan Rouhani said the measures against Iran’s supreme leader unveiled by President Donald Trump on Monday would be “useless” and denounced US plans to target his foreign minister. The moves showed the […]
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Galloo Island, in Lake Ontario, seemed to be a prime spot for a wind farm. It is mostly deserted and sits about six miles offshore in northern New York, so few people were likely to be bothered by the […]
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order seeking to end the separation of migrant children from their parents at the US border. How did we get to this point and what is the bigger picture? The policy – which the administration initially defended as necessary to deter illegal immigration – sparked outrage in the […]
Senator Bernie Sanders on Monday proposed canceling all $1.6 trillion of outstanding student loan debt in the United States, one-upping a rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has proposed canceling $640 million of the debt. But there is a potential problem with the Sanders plan, and, to a lesser extent, the […]