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Call it a group effort, Down Under-style, with Australians at Big White Ski Resort rallying to raise funds for Australia’s wildfire crisis. Big White says Australians account for 37 per cent of all employees at the resort, with the wildfires hitting close to home for many working at the popular resort near Kelowna. Recent fundraising […]

China has delayed an evacuation flight out of Wuhan that would have brought 200 Brits back home. The passengers instead remain stranded in the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, with the plane no longer set to leave tomorrow. Chinese officials have reportedly not yet granted permission for the chartered flight to depart. A Foreign Office […]

GOMA (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 30 people overnight in attacks on villages in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials and civil society leaders said on Wednesday. Four villages were raided by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan Islamist group, in the west of Beni territory, which […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Parliament on Wednesday gave its final approval to Britain’s divorce deal from the bloc, paving the way for Brexit to take place on Friday. The chamber broke into singing Auld Lang Syne, a traditional Scottish song to bid farewell, after voting 621 for versus 49 against the Brexit deal, with […]

OPP are investigating after a body was discovered in the Trent-Severn Waterway in Trent Hills, Ont. on Wednesday morning. Around 9 a.m., Northumberland OPP and emergency crews were called to Hauges Reach at Lock 10, after reports were received of a body in the Trent River at the Ontario Power generation station. The area is […]

Winnipeg police have made an arrest in a fatal shooting outside the Windsor Hotel. Yassin Abdu Ahmed, 20, died early Jan. 12 after being shot outside the Garry Street hotel along with two other men, who survived the shooting. Homicide investigators made an arrest in the case Tuesday. Alrick Denon Banton, 28, of Winnipeg, is […]

A 61-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder in connection to an incident in Kitchener on Tuesday night, according to Waterloo Regional Police. “At approximately 7:20 p.m., we did receive a report of a possible disturbance, an assault, at a residence in the Forest Heights area of Kitchener,” police spokesperson Cherri Greeno told Global […]

Kitchener council will formally request that the provincial government release the results of last year’s regional review to the public. In making the decision on Monday night, council says it would like to see the report to find ways to deliver services more effectively. Last January, Municipal Affairs Minister Steve Clark announced a review of […]

(Reuters) – Australia’s Kangaroo Island Plantation Timbers Ltd on Wednesday suspended trading in its shares, saying an estimated 90% of its trees are no longer productive due to the bushfires that have ravaged the country for months now. Bushfires in Australia have killed 33 people and about 1 billion animals since September, while some 2,500 […]