Peterborough GreenUp has launched a new project aimed at addressing traffic congestion in school zones and increasing active transportation. The School Travel Planning Project — in conjunction with the city of Peterborough and Peterborough County — was officially launched Thursday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Elementary School. The goal is to get more children walking and […]

When we reported this snowfall Thursday, I remember saying to myself are we overreacting with this weather forecast just because it is the first snowfall of the season. We even had Global chief meteorologist Anthony Farnell on the show for the latest update. It’s nothing we haven’t seen before. Was it overkill, I questioned? The answer is no. There is something about that […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May would likely win any vote of confidence in her leadership should Conservative lawmakers write enough letters to a party committee to trigger one, her deputy David Lidington said on Friday. “If those letters were to go in, I think that she would win any such vote decisively, […]

Toronto police say nearly 200 minor collisions were reported in the city during a 12-hour period due to the snowfall on Thursday and early Friday morning. Sgt. Brett Moore told Global News that number is double the number of incidents compared to the day before when the roads were dry. Police continue to remind the […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May will face a no confidence vote next week with Conservative lawmakers expected to submit the 48 letters required to trigger a leadership contest on Friday, a reporter at the Daily Telegraph said. May could face the no confidence vote on Tuesday, Telegraph Chief Political Correspondent Christopher Hope said […]

The US citizen, who crossed into secretive country from China, had reportedly told his captors that he was “under the control of the CIA”. He has been identified as Bruce Byron Lawrence. A man of the same name, who was in his 50s, was deported from South Korea in November 2017 after he was found […]

Accident in Gwanda, 550km south of capital Harare, also left 20 other people injured, some with severe burns. At least 42 passengers have been confirmed dead, Zimbabwe police said Friday, after a suspected gas tank exploded on a bus, with pictures showing the burnt-out wreckage of the vehicle. The accident happened late on Thursday in […]

MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s draft budget for 2019 “significantly” deviates from commitments, the vice president of the EU Commission Valdis Dombrovskis said in an interview with daily Il Sole 24 Ore on Friday, threatening a procedure for excessive debt against Rome. Earlier this week Italy re-submitted its draft 2019 budget to the EU Commission with […]

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A U.N.-backed court found two leaders of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge guilty of genocide on Friday, almost four decades after the ultra-Maoist regime which oversaw the “Killing Fields” was overthrown. Most of the victims of the 1975-79 regime died of starvation, torture, exhaustion or disease in labor camps or were bludgeoned to […]

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump didn’t make it to this week’s summit of Asian nations in Singapore, but his influence was still keenly felt among the leaders who gathered in the city. One prime minister warned that the trade war between Washington and Beijing could trigger a “domino effect” of protectionist steps by […]