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Peel Regional Police say a man is dead after an industrial accident in Mississauga. Police said emergency crews were called to Sherwood Plumbing Supplies Inc. on Sismet Road, near Dixie Road and Matheson Boulevard East, just after 5:30 p.m. Crews were called with reports the man was injured. However, the victim was subsequently pronounced dead. […]
Commuters, rejoice: the Beaudry Metro station reopened on Monday morning just in time for summer. The Société de transport de Montréal (STM) made the station in the city’s Gay Village off limits to public transit users in October 2018 as part of a long-term construction project. “We did slabs, staircases, crack injection,” said STM spokesperson […]
Britain rolled out the royal red carpet for Donald Trump on Monday but the pomp, pageantry and banquet with Queen Elizabeth looked set to be overshadowed by the US President’s views on Brexit, the UK’s next leader and a row over China’s Huawei. Trump and his wife, Melania, were greeted by the 93-year-old monarch at […]
A US man has been sentenced to 19 years in prison after pleading guilty to throwing a five-year-old boy from a third-floor balcony. Emmanuel Aranda, 24, told police he went to Minnesota’s Mall of America “looking for someone to kill”, before choosing the boy, identified as Landen. In a statement read in court on Monday, […]
Two Canadian women detained in Somaliland tell BBC News they faced emotional abuse and were often denied legal counsel, food, medical treatment and basic sanitation during their time in prison. Maymona Abdi, 28, and Karima Watts, 24, spent almost three months in jail in Somaliland before they were suddenly released. The two had also been […]
I think it’s fair to say most Canadians are done with spring and wondering what the summer weather will hold in 2019. Between the lingering cold coast to coast in April and early May, to record flooding in Ontario and Quebec or a complete lack of rainfall in Saskatchewan and northern Alberta, extremes in spring […]
Its racist past still hangs heavy over the White South. But as with anything, it is rarely as simple as everything being bad – one of the reasons photographer Doy Gorton set out to illustrate the White South, his home, in a more nuanced light, writes James Jeffrey. The black neighbourhood of Greenville in segregated […]
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY – Mikhy Farrera-Brochez, the American at the centre of the Singapore HIV database leak, first asked his mother to download files which could have included the HIV registry from a server he owned in Singapore back in 2016, three years before the leak became known to the public. His mother Teresa King, who […]
Visa applicants to the United States are required to submit any information about social media accounts they have used in the past five years under a State Department policy that started on Friday. Such account information would give the government access to photos, locations, dates of birth, dates of milestones and other personal data commonly […]