The conversation surrounding warming centres was at the heart of the Saskatoon city council meeting Wednesday. With winter in full force, the city is rushing to get the facilities up and running. The total funding needed is estimated at $1.2 million to help with three warming shelters in the city this winter. “The donations and…
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he “expects” the Liberals will split their promised multi-billion-dollar affordability package into two bills to guarantee Canadians a GST holiday next month — as he and other opposition leaders push the government to increase the number of Canadians who are eligible for planned $250 rebate cheques. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week…
Soon after the final refrains of Frank Sinatra’s iconic New York, New York finished playing over the loudspeakers to signify New York’s pre-season 5-2 victory over Toronto, Sarah Fillier took a seat at the podium to go over her three-goal outing. Perhaps this was a glimpse of what’s to come from the rookie No. 1…
Belleville Police are looking for a suspect after an incident involving fireworks was reported within the city, asking for the public’s assistance. Source link
The hazelnut tree has long been a part of the landscape in parts of British Columbia. A 19th-century settler gave the village of Hazelton in northern B.C.’s Skeena region its name because of the abundance of hazelnuts in the area. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science indicates Indigenous peoples in what is…
Warning: This article references allegations of sexual assault. Three of the five former NHL players accused of sexual assault stemming back to when they were members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team were in a London, Ont., courtroom on Monday for the start of pretrial hearings. Dillon Dubé, Michael McLeod and Alex Formenton arrived ahead…
If you are soon travelling abroad, experts are urging vigilance after six tourists recently died, several of them from confirmed methanol poisoning — a nearly invisible killer that’s hard to spot in tainted alcohol. Methanol is a clear, colourless alcohol used in all kinds of everyday products like industrial cleaners, solvents, paint, cosmetics and anti-freeze….
Andrea Arnold knows a lot about what goes on in the Village of McBride, a community of about 600 people in British Columbia’s Robson Valley. As a reporter for the Rocky Mountain Goat newspaper, she keeps track of wildfires, local sports teams and pretty much everything happening in the picturesque mountain valley town that lies a 200-kilometre drive…
Ivanie Blondin was a key player in two of Canada’s medals at the long-track speed skating World Cup on Sunday in Nagano, Japan, earning a silver in the women’s mass start and a bronze with Yankun Zhao in the mixed gender relay. Those two pushed Canada’s total for the weekend to four medals. “I knew…
The trillion-dollar question these days is where the huge sums of money needed to address climate change are going to come from, especially for developing countries. Getting governments to put up more was the big focus at the UN climate conference that wrapped this week, but as seen by a wave of criticism about weak…
