U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have delivered duelling speeches, with both pointing to each other as the aggressor and instigator of the invasion in Ukraine. Jackson Proskow explains how Putin described the war, and what his suspension of participating in the New START nuclear arms treaty means.
Brazil is reintroducing the requirement to obtain tourist visas for the citizens of Canada, the United States, Australia, and Japan starting Oct. 1, 2023.
Rupert Murdoch just can’t stay single. Less than a year after divorcing Jerry Hall, the 92-year-old Fox mogul is hearing wedding bells again. He’s engaged to Ann Lesley Smith, a 66-year-old San Francisco police chaplain. According to gossip columnist Cindy Adams, who broke the story in the New York Post, Murdoch’s future wife was previously […]
AMQUI, Que. — A third person has died of injuries sustained when a pickup truck crashed into pedestrians last week in an eastern Quebec town, provincial police said Monday. Police identified the latest victim as 41-year-old Simon-Guillaume Bourget. One week ago, a man drove a truck down a main street in Amqui, Que., hitting several groups of pedestrians in what police have described as an intentional act. The hospital research centre tied to Université Laval said one person died Sunday night at
"As my friends and family know, he has been fighting gastric cancer for the last 18 months and Nick is now hospitalized," the composer wrote in a statement
Investigators have zeroed in on the grandson of a slain 82-year-old woman as the suspect in a homicide investigation dating back to last year. But they are still waiting for key evidence — vials of the suspect's blood — to come back from the RCMP forensic lab. Those details are spelled out in court documents obtained by CBC News — a Royal Newfoundland Constabulary application to keep items seized as part of the homicide investigation. The RNC said it believes Brandon Tobin, 28, killed his grandm
REGINA — A women's organization is asking Regina's tourism agency for another rebrand after the city used slogans criticized for having sexual overtones. Experience Regina, the agency responsible for tourism in Saskatchewan's capital, apologized on the weekend and removed the phrases online that seemed to make light of the city’s name rhyming with vagina. The RaiseHER Community in Regina says the tourism agency needs to take further action. “Saskatchewan has the highest rate of intimate partner
Now is not the time to panic, says one senior portfolio manager.
Charles P. Allen will reopen to students Tuesday afternoon after three people were injured in a stabbing at the Bedford, N.S., high school Monday morning. In an email to families on Monday evening, the Halifax Regional Centre for Education said two staff members were injured "following an altercation with a student." The email said classes will resume for students at 12:45 p.m. and will follow a mini-day schedule. "School psychologists, school social workers and school counsellors will be availa
We've got some nifty dangles, unbelievable saves and hilarious gaffes in this week's NHL Best and Worst.
Now that spring is officially underway, will Canada finally see more consistent warm weather?
White-tailed deer leap into cover of thick prairie grass and owls take flight from branches in the groves of aspen and oak — many felled by beavers and offering shelter to rabbits — while turtles poke their heads up from the wetlands. Winnipeg's Assiniboine Forest can sometime feel like a Disney scene. It is the largest urban forest in Canada, at 285 hectares, and home to a variety of wildlife, dozens of songbirds and hundreds of plants, some rare. But it might have ended up looking like any oth
MONTREAL — Quebec politicians criticized short-term rental company Airbnb on Monday for failing to be a proper corporate citizen, after a building used for illegal rentals was ravaged by a fire that killed one and left at least six missing under the rubble. Firefighters have said that several apartments in the building located in Old Montreal were being used as Airbnb rentals, and police have said that they didn't know how many of the missing were tourists. San Francisco-based Airbnb is "washing
The one year deadline for a winner to claim their Lotto Max prize is just around the corner.
A highway in Northern California was closed on Monday, March 20, due to multiple landslides, transport authorities said.Caltrans said State Route 70 remained closed from the Greenville Wye to Jarbo Gap due to at least seven landslides.Footage released by Caltrans shows the most active slide, at Post Mile 15.2, where the roadway was completely blocked.Following weeks of rain and snow, the stability of the slides were re-evaluated, Caltrans said. However, crews were waiting for a stretch of dry weather to work on them, “due to the extreme danger involved with moving material when rain and snow are in the forecast.”Caltrans said there was no estimated time when State Route 70 will be reopened. Credit: Caltrans District 2 via Storyful
Your diet — the foods and drinks you eat, not short-term restrictive programs — can impact your heart disease risk. Evidence-based approaches to eating are used by dietitians and physicians to prevent and treat cardiovascular (heart) disease. National Nutrition Month, with its 2023 theme of Unlock the Potential of Food, is an ideal opportunity to learn more about these approaches and adopt more heart-friendly behaviours.
Lots of Russian military hardware has been lost or destroyed in Ukraine, but Moscow has other, unconventional tools to bring to bear against the US.
Amritpal Singh rose to national attention after his supporters stormed a police station last month.
Ja Morant has not played since March 3 after he appeared to flash a gun during an Instagram live stream at a nightclub.
Officials say multiple fish species were swept up in the die-off, contributing to the massive number of dead fish in the river.
Teacher suffered wounds to hand and chest
