Durham police are looking for three suspects in connection with a violent home invasion in Whitby, Ont., in which an armed suspect allegedly held a family, including three children, hostage while two other suspects searched for and took belongings from the home. Officers say they were called to a home in the Thickson and Manning […]

The owner of a Vernon fast food restaurant is frustrated after his downtown business was robbed by a man who threatened staff with a needle last week. Wrap Zone owner Rodney Lee would like to see the city take action to restore a feeling of safety to the area. “I feel frustrated as a lot […]

Known as the dracula ant, its jaws snap shut 5,000 times faster than the blink of an eye at 200mph. The tiny insect is comfortably ahead of the cheetah, whose record running speed is 60mph. Researchers believe the ants, found in Africa, Australia and southeast Asia, use their rapidly accelerating jaws to smash into potential […]

COSCUEZ, Colombia/TORONTO (Reuters) – A tiny company is trying to breathe new life into a fabled, four-century-old Colombian emerald mine without triggering unrest among wary locals who fear being shut out of the tunnels where they hunt for gems and make a meager living. Fura Gems, the first listed emerald miner to operate in Colombia, […]

RIMBO, Sweden (Reuters) – Both Yemeni parties at peace talks in Sweden agreed on Wednesday to resume oil and gas exports, delegates from the two sides said. Source: Read Full Article

LONDON (Reuters) – Influential pro-Brexit lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg ruled out standing in a leadership contest if British Prime Minister Theresa May loses a vote of no confidence on Wednesday. “If there is an election from this, I won’t be a candidate,” Rees-Mogg told reporters. He said he would consider the confidence vote a defeat for […]

The Salvation Army has collected less than half the money they usually do at this time of year, with only a few weeks left in their charity campaign. “As of December 10 we have raised $160,000 of our $370,000 goal for Winnipeg” said Major Rob Kerr, spokesperson for the local chapter of the Salvation Army. […]

A six-year-old child was allegedly lured from a playground at Sexsmith Elementary School in South Vancouver on Dec. 5 and sexually assaulted by a stranger, Vancouver police say. Police say the girl was taken to a nearby location where she was assaulted before the man walked her back to school. The suspect is described as a […]

The University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) is calling on the university to prohibit sexual relationships between students and staff, where there’s a direct power imbalance. This comes after further allegations against faculty at the university. In September, the university’s president David Barnard said the school had multiple ongoing investigations into sexual assault, harassment and human […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia has told the United States that two of their strategic bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons will leave Venezuela on Friday, the White House said on Wednesday, ending a deployment that angered Washington. “We have spoken with representatives of Russia and have been informed that their military aircraft, which landed in […]