Descrease article font size Increase article font size A 10-year-old boy from Maryland was bitten by a shark while at a resort in the Bahamas and has been airlifted back to the U.S. for further treatment. The shark attack occurred while the boy was “participating in an expedition in a Shark Tank at a local
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto emergency teams launched a full water rescue response mission after a vehicle crashed through ice and sunk into the Keating Channel Saturday morning. Police say they received a call for a collision at 8:45 a.m. in the area of Lake Shore Boulevard East and Cherry Street.According
On a cool Thursday afternoon in Ottawa, veteran police officer Sgt. Avery Flanagan approaches a man hunched over in a downtown parking lot. He has crushed opioids in one hand and a needle in the other. Flanagan tells the man, who appears to be in his 20s, he can’t use drugs on private property.“Have you
Construction on a new electric vehicle battery plant in Quebec shut down temporarily on Friday. The multibillion-dollar project was announced back in the fall, touting plans to produce some of “the greenest batteries in the world.” However, environmental groups are fighting the project as Mike Armstrong reports.
Twenty per cent of Canada’s land mass will soon be in the hands of the government of Nunavut. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in the territory’s capital Iqaluit on Thursday, signing the Nunavut Lands and Resources Devolution Agreement, saying it was a “historic day” for not just Nunavut, but for the entire country. David Akin
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Shawn Barber, the Canadian pole vault record holder and 2015 world champion, has died from medical complications. He was 29. Barber died Wednesday at home in Kingwood, Texas, his agent, Paul Doyle, confirmed to The Associated Press. A cause of death was not yet known. Barber had
As the one-year expiry date looms closer, the largest lottery win in Atlantic Canadian history is still yet to be paired with its rightful owner. On April 15, 2023, Atlantic Lottery drew a winner for their $64 million Gold Ball jackpot and determined the ticket was purchased in Gloucester County, N.B. But as months passed
The Ministry of Labour is investigating after an employee at the Amazon fulfillment center in Talbotville, Ont., south of London, collapsed and later died about an hour after a fire alarm sent staff out of the plant and into frigid conditions. The worker, identified by a close friend as Paulo DeSouza Bezerra, 50, leaves behind
A Vancouver-based law firm has filed a proposed Canada-wide class-action lawsuit against The Quaker Oats Company and PepsiCo Canada after its Quaker products were recalled in Canada due to potential salmonella contamination. Slater Vecchio LLP launched the lawsuit “on behalf of all persons in Canada” who purchased any of the 38 Quaker products that were
As respiratory illnesses surge across the country, the persistence of a cough that just won’t quit may be prompting some to wonder if there is a deeper underlying issue. This lingering cough is what Nicholas Vozoris, an assistant professor and staff respirologist at Saint Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, calls a “post-infectious cough” and it