Friends, family and co-workers are mourning the loss of a 24-year-old woman who died after a pickup truck crashed into the northern Alberta restaurant she worked at on Saturday. Global News has spoken to a person who has started a GoFundMe page to raise money for the victim’s family to help with funeral costs, loss…
In the midst of a budget freeze, trustees at an Ontario Catholic school board sent a senior staff member to Rome and Berlin this fall, and approved a third trip to Dubai next year, costing the board over $31,000. Halton Catholic District School Board (HCDSB) superintendent, Anthony Cordeiro, also went to São Paulo, Brazil, in…
Bev Priestman is out as coach of the Canadian women’s soccer team in the wake of an independent report into the Olympic drone-spying scandal. Canada Soccer says assistant coach Jasmine Mander and analyst Joseph Lombardi, who like Priestman are serving a one-year FIFA ban over the illegal use of a drone to film New Zealand…
By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted November 12, 2024 2:52 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size New Brunswick’s premier says her newly elected Liberal government will draft a carbon pricing plan that will be submitted for Ottawa’s approval. Susan Holt made the commitment in Fredericton during a news conference with…
As Toronto readies for Taylor Swift’s arrival this week, some crowd management and planning experts say additional safety precautions should be taken when tens of thousands of fans fill the city’s downtown core on show nights. That means being prepared for a sudden shift in crowd dynamics and severe traffic gridlock, despite planned road closures,…
The 2025 HSBC SVNS season will wrap up May 3-4 at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif., where the champions will be crowned at the 2028 Olympic rugby sevens venue. The championship round of the elite rugby sevens competition will follow a stop in Singapore, World Rugby announced Monday. The first five events of…
Locked-out workers at ports in British Columbia were joined on the picket lines by their peers in Montreal on Sunday night, stymying trade at Canada’s two largest marine trading hubs heading into the busy holiday shopping season. While experts tell Global News that consumers will hopefully avoid a Christmas crunch, they also warn that the…
A Mississauga couple is in the midst of a war of words with their townhouse complex’s board of directors — which a handful of residents say is imposing unnecessarily strict new rules on the complex’s roughly 140 homeowners. Janet Kitson said her problems began in 2022, when some new members joined the board of directors at…
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By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted November 10, 2024 2:08 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The union for locked-out port workers in British Columbia says the BC Maritime Employers Association cut off talks in less than an hour Saturday, refusing to budge on a final offer that…
