Senior Pentagon leaders have said the US has no plans to withdraw troops from Iraq, despite a draft letter from a senior military officer that appeared to suggest plans for withdrawal were under way. General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters the US is “moving forces around” Iraq and neighbouring […]

A revised housing plan next to a former church in Kingston‘s Portsmouth Village isn’t sitting well with some of the neighbours. The new owners of land surrounding the Church of the Good Thief at 743 King St. West are seeking city council’s approval to construct two, six-plex apartment buildings fronting on McDonald Avenue and Baiden […]

‘Chemical incident’ sees businesses evacuated and residents told to stay indoors after ‘gas canister leak’ on Essex industrial estate Emergency crews rushed to West Thurrock in Essex as ‘clouds of fumes’ spotted A 100m exclusion zone is in place and residents told to keep their doors shut  Several roads are closed nearby while emergency services […]

HOUSTON (Reuters) – Chevron Corp removed its expatriate staff operating in northern Iraq as a security precaution, a spokeswoman said on Monday, joining other oil companies pulling staff following the U.S. killing of an Iranian general in the country. U.S. officials last week called for American citizens to leave Iraq hours after a drone strike […]

RCMP are investigating after human remains were located in a field east of Redwater, Alta., over the weekend. In a media release Monday, police said the remains were found around 8 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 4 in a field on Range Road 203A. The area is located along the North Saskatchewan River in Sturgeon County, […]

LIMA (Reuters) – At least 16 people, including two Germans, died in a crash in southern Peru on Monday after a bus collided with other vehicles and rolled over, local police said. The accident also left 42 others injured, including two Brazilians and two Americans, Colonel Carlos López, a spokesman for the national police, told […]

The London Fire Department says one man is dead following a fire in the city’s White Oaks neighbourhood. Firefighters attended a home on Patience Crescent shortly after 12 p.m. Sunday after they received reports of a house fire, according to Platoon Chief Gary Mosburger. Mosburger said the blaze took fire crews about an hour to […]

A Manitoba legislator is calling on Canadians to contact the federal heritage minister to remove two poems, written by the killer of an Indigenous woman, from the Parliamentary Poet Laureate website. Nahanni Fontaine says in a series of tweets that the inclusion of poems by Stephen Brown, including one about a prostitute, constitutes “blatant disrespect” […]

Psychiatric nurse launches legal action against NHS Tavistock clinic that offers ‘experimental’ puberty-blocking drugs to children ‘as young as nine’ who want to change gender Susan Evans wants to stop ‘experimental’ puberty blockers being given by NHS Argued children under 18 cannot give valid consent to administration of drugs To take legal action with Tavistock […]

Gear up – flaming wheel down. An Air Canada Express plane lost one of its wheels as it took off from Montreal, forcing the flight to return to the airport, according to CNN. One of the passengers aboard the high-wing Dash 8-300 plane caught the frightening sight of the flame-spewing wheel coming off the left […]