Descrease article font size Increase article font size Rogers Communications Inc. announced Monday it will relocate around 300 Shaw call centre jobs based overseas to Canada after completing its $26-billion acquisition of the carrier earlier this month. The positions will be located in B.C., Alberta and Manitoba, where Rogers has pledged to boost the number
Torontonians who are caught driving electronic kick scooters in the city could get slammed with a fine of up to $25,000, according to police. On Sunday, Toronto police’s Traffic Unit posted a TikTok of someone riding an electronic scooter along Lake Shore Boulevard downtown, asking if viewers could spot the motorcycle in the video. “Yeah
The Canadian Centre for Child Protection is calling the growing number of sextortion offences being reported an ‘epidemic.” “To be completely frank, the situation is completely out of control. We can barely keep up with the sextortion reports that are coming in to us,” Canadian Centre for Child Protection Associate Executive Director Signy Arnason told Global
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 16, 2023 4:31 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ottawa police say two people have been charged with mischief after a woman threw paint at the prime minister’s office and chained herself to the building Saturday. Police haven’t confirmed the identities of the people arrested
Investigators were gathering evidence Sunday at an Alabama dance studio where four people were killed and multiple others were injured during a shooting Saturday night at a teenager’s birthday party. The shooting happened around 10:30 p.m. in Dadeville, Sgt. Jeremy Burkett of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said. There was no initial confirmation about what
Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko and his wife Aleksandra want to be taken off Canada’s sanctions list, claiming in Federal Court they’ve been wrongfully labelled as “elites and close associates” of the Russian regime. The Melnichenkos filed two applications in the Federal Court of Canada in late March, seeking to quash a decision to place them
For her 25th birthday this year, Shania Bhopa gave a gift to her future self. The PhD student from Hamilton decided to freeze her eggs as an “insurance policy” to have a baby in the future as she focuses on her career right now. Read more: As more Canadians seek IVF treatment, advocates warn about
One of Canada’s most prominent conservation groups has reached a deal to buy the largest privately owned island in Lake Superior, a move that will protect it from development. Batchawana Island, located 45 kilometres north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., is set to be acquired by the Nature Conservancy of Canada for $7.2 million once
A climate activist threw yellow and pink paint on the entrance of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office in Ottawa on Saturday. The climate action group, On-2-Ottawa, says the individual, who apparently also chained herself to the doorway afterwards, is the same person who crashed the Juno Awards ceremony in March.
