Heroic efforts by five strangers, who acted in the nick of time, saved the life of a Toronto man, pulling him out of a burning car on an Ontario highway earlier this month. The driver suffered a seizure, causing him to crash his vehicle off the Queen Elizabeth Highway, but […]
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As Pope Francis travelled across Canada, so did a demand to revisit centuries-old declarations. At the front of a basilica in Quebec, where the 85-year-old pontiff prepared to preside over mass, Sarain Fox and her cousin stood in silence, holding a banner with the words “Rescind the Doctrine” emblazoned in […]
Russian forces on Thursday launched massive missile strikes on Ukraine’s Kyiv and Chernihiv regions, areas that haven’t been targeted in weeks, while Ukrainian officials announced an operation to liberate an occupied region in the country’s south. Kyiv regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba said on Telegram that a settlement in the Vyshgorod […]
A 37-year-old woman fired several gunshots, apparently at the ceiling, inside of Dallas’ Love Field Airport on Monday before an officer shot and wounded her, authorities said. The woman was dropped off at the airport at about 11 a.m., walked inside near the ticketing counters and entered a bathroom, Dallas […]
On warm summer nights, the park across the street from my house is filled with people playing dribbling soccer balls, playing volleyball, or engaging in aggressive games of Spikeball. Nearly all of them will have music playing through Bluetooth speakers, usually from the Spotify Top 100. And if I’m honest, […]
The explosion in Conservative membership sales could significantly shake up the party’s grassroots as well as the long-standing power dynamics between various factions, multiple sources tell Global News. The biggest beneficiary of that shake-up would likely be Pierre Poilievre, the purported frontrunner to lead the Conservative Party of Canada into […]
U.S. President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing “very mild symptoms.” In a statement on Thursday, a White House spokesperson said Biden, who is fully vaccinated and has received two booster shots, will continue to work while isolating. “Consistent with CDC guidelines, he will isolate at […]
The annual rate of inflation in Canada hit 8.1 per cent in June as prices on gasoline surged, Statistics Canada reported on Wednesday. And economists are starting to wonder whether price pressures have peaked. Gasoline prices were up 54.6 per cent year-over-year and 6.2 per cent month-to-month in June, contributing […]
After two years in a coma, a woman from West Virginia has awoken and identified her brother as the man who beat and left her for dead in a 2020 attack. Since that night, Wanda Palmer has been in a long-term care facility in New Martinsville, W. Va., recovering from […]
As research suggests that COVID-19 has infected roughly half of the Canadian population, the emergence of an even more contagious version of the virus means some people may be in for another round. But questions remain about the prevalence of reinfection, and the short and long-term health impact that subsequent […]