WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan threw rubber gumboots on Tuesday as children cheered in a competition in New Zealand’s largest city of Auckland, though Harry’s team ended up losing to his wife’s side. A 6.1 magnitude earthquake felt by thousands of people in New Zealand did not disrupt the schedule […]

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, who spoke by telephone on Thursday, expressed optimism about resolving their trade dispute ahead of a high-stakes meeting at the end of November in Argentina. But within hours of upbeat assessment, the U.S. Justice Department took aim at another Chinese firm it accused […]

First a hurricane wiped a Hawaiian island out of existence, now Japan has lost a small piece of land to wind and drift ice. A Japanese island known as Esanbe Hanakita Kojima, which was located 500 metres from the village of Sarufutsu in Hokkaido prefecture, appears to have been wiped away, broadcaster NHK reported Wednesday. Coverage […]

Rod Butters is one of the country’s most celebrated chefs. He’s been called the consummate Canadian-born, Canadian-trained chef. For Butters, cooking boils down to one thing: Passion. “When you cook with passion, you feed the soul,” said Butters, who co-owns Raudz Regional Table restaurant in downtown Kelowna. Butters has recently poured that passion into print […]

Lethbridge police say the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) is now investigating the actions of one of their officers, whose takedown of another man was captured on video and shared via social media. The altercation happened early Saturday when police were called to a Halloween party at the La Cité des Prairie event hall […]

A Calgary judge has granted bail to a teenager charged in the August shooting of a German tourist. Alberta provincial court Judge Peter Barley granted the youth’s release on condition he pay $2,500 cash and live with his grandparents from the Stoney Nakoda First Nation west of Calgary. He’s to remain in the home, be […]

A funeral will be held on Friday for a woman whose body was found in a rural area near Miramichi, N.B., over the weekend. Friends of Candace Rose Stevens, 31, are sharing memories of their friend, whose death is so far a mystery. Stevens graduated from the Majestany Institute and worked as a aesthetician at […]

The province’s Special Investigations Unit has been called in to probe an incident just north of the village of Apsley in North Kawartha Township. There remains a heavy presence of Peterborough County OPP cruisers along Tuckers Road off of Highway 28, about six kilometres north of the village.   A pickup truck on the dead-end […]

TORONTO – The case of a man accused in a deadly van attack in north Toronto that left 10 people dead is expected in court today. Alek Minassian, 25, of Richmond Hill, Ont., faces 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 of attempted murder after he allegedly drove a white rental van down a crowded […]

LONDON — Parliamentary committees in Britain and Canada on Wednesday urged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before a joint hearing of international lawmakers examining fake news and the internet. Damian Collins, the head of the U.K. parliament’s media committee, is joining forces with his Canadian counterpart, Bob Zimmer, to pressure Zuckerberg to personally take […]