In the Kingston area, a flood warning continues for people with properties on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, with rainfall and the ground’s limited capacity to absorb more water having caused localized flooding. The city, meanwhile, is doing what is can to combat the rising water. Public works crews were on St. Lawrence […]

While they may look cute now, officials with the city are warning residents to keep their distance from a litter of coyote pups and their parents who have settled into a rock wall in the community of Arbour Lake. When media visited the scene on Friday, nine pups could be seen playing and nipping at […]

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia will not allow its border with Venezuela to become a sanctuary for the leftist ELN rebel group, President Ivan Duque said on Friday, after local media published documents said to show Venezuela has given weapons to the group. Local media Red+ Noticias, which published the documents late on Thursday, said they […]

Some 20 people took the province’s largest Lotto Max jackpot in a year as they won the $50 million Lotto Max jackpot in the May 3 draw. They bought the winning ticket at a Loto Quebec kiosk in the Champlain Mall operated by the Quebec Epilepsy Association, which means one per cent of the winnings […]

The shamed DJ was immediately sacked from his job on BBC Radio 5 Live after tweeting a photo of a chimp in reference to Prince Harry and Meghan’s newborn son. The image – showing a well-dressed monkey standing between an equally smartly-clothed couple – is said to have implied the primate is Harry and Meghan’s […]

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela is reopening its borders with Brazil and the Caribbean island of Aruba, Venezuela’s Economy Vice President Tareck El Aissami said on Friday. The government of President Nicolas Maduro shut those borders in February amid an opposition campaign to bring humanitarian aid into the country, which is suffering from a hyperinflationary economic […]

US President Donald Trump has shaken the foundations of global trade, slapping steep tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of goods from the EU, Canada, Mexico and China. All these countries are responding in kind, retaliating with levies on thousands of US products. This puts the world’s largest economies at each other’s throats. But what […]

An artichoke is not a vegetable. It is a flower, or it would be, if it were allowed to bloom. At the stage we eat it, before the bright purple blossom emerges, the artichoke is actually a fat, succulent bud. There are many types, some the size of an egg and others as big as […]

With a ring of the opening bell, Uber began picking up passengers as a newly minted public company Friday and investors waited to bet on a service with huge potential, but a long way from turning a profit. Shares in the ride-hailing giant were sold in an initial public offering for $45 each, raising $8.1 […]

UN migration agency says at least 50 people drowned as vessel went down in the Mediterranean. A boat carrying scores of migrants has sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Tunisia, killing at least 50 people, according to the United Nations migration agency. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said sixteen people survived the […]