Two Ontario men began a 40,000-kilometre motorcycle journey Saturday, setting off from Toronto’s CN tower through a human-tunnel of outstretched volunteer arms – and en route to 18 different Pan-American countries. Kevin Milne and Wayne Wilton, of Kitchener, Ont., are travelling through the Americas as part of TO2015 IGNITE, a program set up to promote
A 52-year-old woman was seriously injured after a crash involving a car and a transport truck in Burlington on Monday, according to police. Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said the crash happened on eastbound Highway 403 leading to Fairview Street. Schmidt said the vehicle was standing on the side of the road “relatively slowly” …
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A baby was abandoned at an airport check-in desk in Tel Aviv, Israel after his parents learned they had not purchased a plane ticket for the infant. The parents, who have not been publicly identified, were travelling on a Ryanair flight from Ben Gurion International Airport to Brussels, Belgium on Tuesday. The local news outlet Channel
Medicago will be shutting down its COVID-19 vaccine project in Quebec after its sole shareholder decided to no longer invest in the company, the company announced Thursday. With the Japan-based Mitsubishi Chemical Group deciding to “proceed with an orderly wind-up of its business operations in Canada and the United States,” Medicago announced the group would
A young couple in Iran have been arrested and imprisoned after posting a video of themselves dancing together in front of Tehran’s Azadi (Freedom) Tower. Astiyazh Haghighi, 21, and her fiancé Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, 22, both popular Instagram influencers in Iran, were convicted of promoting corruption and disturbing national security, activists reported on Tuesday.The November
TORONTO — The first-degree murder convictions handed down to five members of a notorious biker gang in what was one of Ontario’s worst mass killings must stand, the province’s top court ruled Thursday. In its ruling, the Court of Appeal said it was satisfied the trial judge had properly instructed the jury after a “difficult
