COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s parliamentary speaker has called the president’s sacking of the prime minister to bring a former leader back to power a non-violent coup d’etat. Speaker Karu Jayasuriya is a key figure in the political standoff that started on Oct. 26, when President Maithripala Sirisena fired Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and replaced […]

Tina Fontaine will continue to be remembered by Winnipeggers, as a new youth centre has named their facility after her. The Ndinawe Youth Resource Centre has been renamed “Tina’s Safe Haven.” Located at 472 Selkirk Ave., the centre has been a resource for at-risk youth and an after school drop-in centre for 25 years. Since […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain wants a Brexit agreement by the end of November and Prime Minister Theresa May would give a speech on Nov. 19 saying she had delivered on the referendum with a deal which brings the country back together, the BBC reported on Tuesday. However, a spokesman at May’s Downing Street office dismissed […]

Durham police have been canvassing on a Pickering, Ont., street after shots were fired in a home in the area early Tuesday morning. Officers have been going door to door on Canborough Crescent, looking for more witnesses after they received reports of the sounds of gunshots around 5 a.m., say Durham police. They found evidence […]

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s right-wing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday that Congress must make some progress this year on a pension reform proposed by the outgoing government before he takes office Jan. 1. Bolsonaro’s team of orthodox economists, led by future minister Paulo Guedes, wants to move quickly to reduce the budget deficit to […]

The B.C. Dragoons will be naming one of four new tactical armoured patrol vehicles this week, and the naming will be written in two languages: English and Sylix. The announcement, made Tuesday morning, was made by the B.C. Dragoons and Westbank First Nation. The tactical armoured patrol vehicle (TAPV) will feature the word “Dragoon” and […]

Services Canada has leased one the units in the former Woolworths’ building on Vernon’s main street. The former retail space at the corner of 30 Avenue and 33 Street has stood empty for years, but the intention now is to subdivide the space and find six tenants to move in. A city demolition permit has […]

The province has approved three quarters of a million dollars in tax credits for a private Winnipeg business creating new child care spaces. On Monday, government officials announced the first project eligible for the child care centre development tax credit, which was included in the 2018 budget and is aimed at creating more care spaces within workplaces. […]

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that U.S.-Kurdish joint patrols near the Turkish-Syrian border were unacceptable and he expected U.S. President Donald Trump to stop them. Erdogan, set to meet Trump in Paris this weekend, told reporters he would discuss the patrols carried out by the United States and allied Kurdish […]

Toronto police say a man is in serious condition after a shooting Monday afternoon. Toronto Police Const. David Hopkinson said an officer was driving in the area of Alameda Avenue and Gloucester Grove, near Allen Road and Eglinton Avenue West, at about 3:45 p.m. when they were flagged down by someone who said a man was […]