5 h. ago Lapu Lapu festival tragedy: Search warrant executed at suspect’s home

On Sunday police also spent time at a separate home nearby. The resident told us it was related to retrieving their surveillance footage.

Culture

8 h. ago Irish woman legally residing in the U.S. for decades detained by ICE

Cliona Ward, originally from Ireland, is a green card holder but has prior drug possession charges dating back to 2007 and 2008, which she believed had been expunged.

Other

9 h. ago Woman testifies in sex assault trial of Edmonton addictions counsellor

She told the court she repeatedly told him she wasn’t comfortable and was not interested in getting naked.

Economics

9 h. ago In Calgary courts: Crown seeks peace bond for rapist who just completed his lengthy prison term

Noteworthy legal cases in Calgary and area from April 28-May 2, 2025

Economics

9 h. ago Spain Faces a ‘Long Night’ as Blackout Drags On With No Answers

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warned the nation will face a “long night ahead,” as the worst blackout to hit Europe in over a decade headed for the 12-hour mark with no indication of when power would be fully restored or what caused the blackout.

Other

9 h. ago Woman sues Disney for $2M, claims ‘mammoth wave’ scarred her for life

A New York woman is suing Disney Parks for $2 million after she was allegedly struck and left permanently scarred by a “mammoth wave” at Typhoon Lagoon in Florida. Kimberly Panetta, 45, of Dix Hills, N.Y., claimed her annual family trip to the “Place Where Dreams Come True” turned into a nightmare while she was […]

Economics

10 h. ago Woman charged with murder in stabbing of paramedic during ambulance ride to hospital

A woman pleaded not guilty Monday to fatally stabbing a Kansas City, Missouri, paramedic as she was being taken to a hospital in an ambulance. Shanetta Bossell, 39, was arrested Sunday after trying to drive off in the ambulance as others were tending to paramedic Graham Hoffman’s chest wound, according to court records. She has […]

Events

10 h. ago CRIME SCENE: Toronto woman, male youth charged in carjacking, robbery probe

A 26-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy from Toronto are facing charges after a carjacking and retail robbery probe in the south Etobicoke and Markland Woods neighbhourhoods. Among the incidents reported to Toronto Police: — Officers responded on April 11 at 8:16 a.m. to a call for a person with a gun in the Burnhamthorpe […]

Events

10 h. ago Fire at Vancouver seniors apartment was due to discarded cigarette

A fire at a Vancouver seniors apartment that displaced 42 residents was caused by a cigarette that had been disposed of improperly

Events

10 h. ago Why Restarting a Power Grid After Massive Collapse Is So Hard

It’s a worst case scenario that grid operators plan for but hope never to encounter. After one of the worst blackouts in Europe in more than a decade, electricity grid operators in Spain and Portugal are trying to get networks back up and running from the ground up.

Culture

10 h. ago Capitales: Kyle Crowl, fier résident de Québec... et prof de français!

Kyle Crowl est plus attaché que jamais à sa ville d’adoption

Economics

11 h. ago Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service battles two overnight blazes

Firefighters had the blaze under control at 3:37 a.m., and the city's Emergency Social Services team supported the displaced residents.

Events

11 h. ago Edgewater Wireless Joins CHIPS North Executive Summit to Share Advances in Wi

OTTAWA, Ontario — Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc. (TSXV: YFI) (OTC: KPIFF), the industry leader in Wi-Fi Spectrum Slicing technology for residential and enterprise markets, is proud to announce its participation in the upcoming CHIPS North Executive Summit, taking place April 29–30 in Ottawa. Hosted by Canada’s Semiconductor Council, this premier event brings together top executives, […]

Other

11 h. ago Bad blood is building between Senators and Maple Leafs in Battle of Ontario

There were some more fireworks off the ice in the Battle of Ontario on Monday. As the Senators and Maple Leafs prepared for Game 5 of the series on Tuesday night at the Canadian Tire Centre, the good people in Toronto weren’t the least bit pleased with Ottawa defenceman Artem Zub. Centre John Tavares was […]

Events

12 h. ago After a career of preparing, Poilievre waits to see if voters see him as prime minister

Poilievre has spent the past three years campaigning for this moment and two-decades before honing his political craft

Politics

12 h. ago After calling for an election, Poilievre fails in his quest to become prime minister

Poilievre has spent the past three years campaigning for this moment and two-decades before honing his political craft

Politics

14 h. ago Naked woman jumps from moving car on highway to escape kidnapping: Cops

A 24-year-old man faces numerous charges, including kidnapping, after a naked woman jumped out of a moving car on a Nashville highway. Police were called to a gas station early Thursday to find the woman without clothes covered in severe abrasions, court documents obtained by WKRN revealed. She was treated in hospital, where she told […]

Society

14 h. ago Alleged drunk Ontario driver clocked at 200km/h says he was 'late for work'

Times have been pretty darn tough in Ontario, between the present economic recession and sky-high unemployment rates, an ongoing trade war and long-running cost of living crisis, a growing socio-political divide and general lack of faith in various levels of government — need we go on?But even if it feels like it's all been more than enough to make us all collectively lose our cool or lean into our vices, there's no excuse or explanation for what one Toronto resident was caught doing behind the wheel this weekend.Putting both themselves and the public in grave danger in the process, an unnamed 25-year-old was pulled over by Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) on Sunday morning after they were clocked going a whopping 200 km/h — which is double the posted limit — along Highway 407.Upon pulling the vehicle over, though, officers discovered that the serious speeding was only the beginning of the motorist's...

Transport

14 h. ago Trial begins in former world junior hockey players’ sexual assault case

Prosecutors say a woman felt she had no choice but to go along with what a group of hockey players told her to do inside a London, Ont., hotel room nearly seven years ago.

Sport

15 h. ago What to know to save a life: The key to heart attack survival

When a woman collapsed on an escalator at the Buffalo airport last June, Phil Clough knew what to do. He and another bystander put her flat on her back and checked her pulse (faint) and her breathing (shallow and erratic). Then she stopped breathing altogether. Realizing that she might be having a cardiac arrest, Clough […]

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