When people say, “Crazier things have happened,” they’re likely referring to situations like this. One New Brunswick man is setting new standards for what it means to have “good luck,” as he recently became a two-time $1 million Atlantic Lottery winner.Jim Slater of Shediac Cape, N.B., previously stumbled upon a seven-figure Scratch’N Win ticket in
William Majcher, a retired member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, has been charged in connection with alleged foreign interference activities “to benefit” China following a two-year investigation, the national police force says. The 60-year-old from Hong Kong appeared in a Quebec court virtually on Friday to face charges laid under the Security of Information
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 20, 2023 4:36 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size An event for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was cut short in Belleville, Ont., today after nearly 100 protesters surrounded him and his motorcade. Trudeau was in the city to mark the seventh anniversary of the Liberal
Notorious serial killer and rapist Paul Bernardo will stay in a medium-security prison as the decision to transfer one of Canada’s most infamous murderers was “sound,” the head of Correctional Service Canada says. Anne Kelly, commissioner of Correctional Service Canada, presented the results of a review into the controversial prison transfer Thursday, which found that
An aerospace engineer who serves in the Canadian Armed Forces is accusing police officers in Quebec of racially profiling and harassing him while he was out on a run. Capt. Pierre Emanuel Joseph, a 37-year-old Black man, held a press conference Wednesday alongside members of The Red Coalition, a Canadian anti-police profiling and systemic racism
The union representing roughly 7,400 British Columbia port workers issued a 72-hour strike notice Wednesday, hours after the federal labour minister deemed its impromptu strike “illegal.” The union ordered its members back to the picket line Tuesday after rejecting an offer that briefly ended the strike last week.That tentative agreement between the International Longshore and
On Sunday, the Turkish ship TQ Samsun left the port of Odesa in Ukraine carrying 23,500 metric tons of corn and 15,300 metric tons of rapeseed to the Netherlands under the final hours of the Black Sea grain deal. Now, the world has entered yet another period of uncertainty and although Canada and the U.S.
An Ontario woman in her 50s remains in hospital in critical condition on Monday after a deadly gondola crash at Quebec’s Mont-Tremblant resort over the weekend. Quebec provincial police said the incident happened just before noon on Sunday, when a drilling machine struck two cabins on the moving gondola.Sgt. Audrey-Anne Bilodeau said one of the
Descrease article font size Increase article font size One person has died and another is in critical condition on Sunday after a mountain sightseeing gondola was struck at Quebec’s Mont-Tremblant ski resort, provincial police have confirmed. Authorities say it happened just before noon after heavy construction equipment struck the moving gondola. The force of the
Anna Ambroszkiewicz has a Polish passport, but says the whole world is her home. She has structured her life in a way that allows her to live in different places in the world for short periods of time — in short, she’s a “digital nomad.” “I can go hiking in the daytime and go work