A student is in custody after two staff members were stabbed Monday morning at Charles P. Allen High School on the first day back after March Break. In an interview, Halifax Regional Police spokesperson Const. Nicolas Gagnon said police received a weapons complaint around 9:20 a.m. at the Bedford-area high school.“Officers arrived on scene and
Emma Heming Willis, the wife of Bruce Willis, said the actor’s 68th birthday celebrations caused her to feel “grief and sadness” amid his dementia diagnosis. In an emotional video posted to Instagram on Sunday, Heming Willis, 44, said she “started the morning by crying.”“I think it’s important that you see all sides of this,” she
Humanity still has a chance, close to the last one, to prevent the worst of climate change ‘s future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists said Monday. But doing so requires quickly slashing carbon pollution and fossil fuel use by nearly two-thirds by 2035, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said. The United
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland pledged on Monday that the Liberals would provide “additional, targeted inflation relief” to vulnerable Canadians in the 2023 federal budget. But the deputy prime minister also cautioned that Canada finds itself in a “turbulent time in the world economy” and said that the government would avoid “pouring fuel on the fire
TORONTO – Police have busted a cargo trailer theft ring operating in central Ontario and have taken five people into custody. The operation, dubbed Project Recreational Use, recovered almost $500,000 worth of trailers and vehicles in cottage country north of Toronto. Recovered vehicles and equipment include 36 stolen cargo trailers, a truck, a motorcycle, a
A devout Sikh who is fighting a traffic ticket for not wearing a motorcycle helmet while riding his motorcycle is optimistic a Brampton, Ont., judge will rule in his favour. Baljinder Badesha, 39, says choosing between his turban and a helmet is denying him the right to religious freedom. “Everything’s good — we hope everything
BRAMPTON, Ont. – Forcing a devout, motorcycle-riding Sikh to choose between his turban and a helmet is denying him the right to religious freedom, human rights lawyers argued Friday as Baljinder Badesha’s fight against a $110 fine took on the character of a constitutional challenge. Obliged to wear turbans outside the home, devout Sikhs who
Toronto Mayor David Miller has announced an independent panel of business, education and labour professionals to review the city’s books and suggest ways to improve the government’s performance. “I’m announcing this panel in response to concerns raised by a number of members of council that the city’s operations both be efficient and seem to be
Just days before Toronto city councillors vote on two controversial new taxes, Mayor David Miller is trying to muster support by stressing the importance of the proposed levies. “We don’t have the money to support our programs, we don’t have the money to invest in a 21st century city — that is what we are
When Steve Jobs made the rounds of major record labels in 2000, he knew he had them over a barrel. Music piracy, kicked into high gear by the original Napster the previous June, was a threat to the recorded music industry. The new frontier for music was online and the labels were completely ill-equipped to