More than three and a half years after six people were killed in one of the deadliest workplace incidents in Ottawa’s history — a 2022 explosion at an Ottawa tank truck manufacturing facility — Ottawa police have laid criminal charges against the company’s owner, Neil Greene. The 54-year-old is facing six counts of criminal negligence causing the deaths of Eastway Tank,…
Citing illness, Canadian rider Mike Woods has pulled out of Sunday’s Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal. Israel-Premier Tech said the 38-year-old from Ottawa has been “suffering from illness in the past week and will require surgery for a hernia, which has made racing impossible.” Sunday’s 209.1-kilometre race in Montreal follows a 216-kilometre race Friday in…
A year and a half after residents were forced out of their affordable housing complex near downtown Kelowna, B.C., the roughly 80 residents received news this week they will never return to the building again. “I was a little caught off-guard to hear that there was a new building intended for Wilson-Hadgraft Place and Pathways,”…
One child has been killed and six other children were injured after a vehicle drove into a daycare in Richmond Hill, Ont., on Wednesday, police say. Police say the child who died was a one and a half-year-old boy. He was pronounced dead in hospital. Of the six other children hurt, one is in hospital with…
Chris Jones is in Wales with Canada’s men’s soccer team as it continues preparations for next year’s FIFA World Cup. Luc de Fougerolles, Canada’s ascendant 19-year-old defender, waited in the team’s hotel lobby on Tuesday afternoon, a few hours before his side took on Wales in Swansea. The sliding doors opened, and a woman walked in…
Backlash against a new Harry Potter-themed attraction in Stanley Park has one Park Board commissioner looking into cancelling the contract. “I have learned a great deal in the last five days about the linkage of the Harry Potter franchise with J.K. Rowling and I am very surprised at what I’ve learned and I was not…
Electric vehicle manufacturer LION says it’s looking into what happened after the heating system on one of its buses caught fire. Five children and a driver managed to exit the bus unharmed. Source link
Chris Jones is in Wales with Canada’s men’s soccer team for Tuesday’s friendly as it continues preparations for next year’s FIFA World Cup. Ismael Koné, Canada’s sometimes mercurial midfielder, looked down at his chest, as though his uniform might help him find the right words. “I think it’s hard for me as a person to kind…
After a few days’ break due to rain, Korey Peters is back harvesting his crops. “Two-thirds done wheat,” he told Global News Thursday, adding that amounts to roughly 25 per cent of the total harvest at Herbsigwil Farms in Randolph, Man. “You never really know until you start harvesting,” Peters said. “We thought our wheat…
The union representing airport screeners in Calgary is reporting its members have hit a “breaking point,” leading the federal authority overseeing security screening to weigh in that their concerns must be taken seriously. Screening officers working at the Calgary International Airport, represented by Unifor Local 2002, have filed thousands of complaints in the past 17 months, said Harold…
