10 h. ago N.S. truck driver charged with dangerous driving causing deaths of two people

RCMP have charged a 36-year-old man with dangerous driving causing death after investigating a collision that killed two people in Cape Breton last year.

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35 h. ago Satellite images reveal destruction after Iran port explosion as death toll rises to 46

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press on Monday showed the devastation of an explosion that rocked one of Iran’s main ports as the death toll rose to 46 people with over 1,000 injured. The photos from Planet Labs PBC came as local news reports from the site raised […]

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5 d. ago Jury begins deliberations in trial of pair accused of killing OPP officer

Jurors in the trial of two people accused of murder in the 2022 shooting death of a provincial police officer have begun their deliberations after hearing closing arguments in the case this week. Ontario Provincial Police Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala was shot on Dec. 27, 2022, while responding to a vehicle in a ditch west of […]

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6 d. ago Toronto's Union Station now surrounded by ugly concrete anti

Giant concrete blocks now surround Toronto's Union Station, the utilitarian product of a terrorist attack that shook the city seven years earlier.Pedestrians passing the city's primary transit hub have likely noticed these prominent anti-terror barriers in recent months, just the latest round of work at the perpetually under-construction Union Station.The new barriers will replace temporary concrete dividers that have surrounded the station for years.Jersey barriers were first installed around the hub in 2018 in the wake of the tragic Toronto van attack, where a man driven by "incel" ideology slammed a rented van into pedestrians along Yonge Street in North York, resulting in 11 deaths and 15 more people injured.While the barriers have indeed made it impossible for cars to be utilized as weapons in the high-traffic area along Front Street, the ad-hoc design and placement of these security measures did not exactly make them pleasant to look at.The barriers were...

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6 d. ago Paddleboard guide who led 4 people to deaths on Welsh river gets 10 years

LONDON — A former Welsh police officer who who led four people to their deaths in the worst paddleboarding tragedy in the U.K. was sentenced Wednesday to 10.5 years in prison for manslaughter. Nerys Bethan Lloyd, 39, had previously pleaded guilty in Swansea Crown Court to four counts of gross negligence manslaughter and failing to […]

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7 d. ago Closing submissions underway at trial of two people accused of killing OPP officer

Closing submissions are underway in the trial of two people accused of murder in the shooting death of a provincial police officer.

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1 week ago Destroyed Ontario ghost town was almost a historic catastrophe

Once a quaint French Ontarian farming village nestled along the South Nation River, Lemieux, Ontario, is now nothing more than a distant memory.Formerly located just an hour's drive east of Ottawa, the town's origins can be traced back to the mid-1850s, when it began as a service centre for the local lumber industry before transitioning into a farming hamlet.Though the community appeared stable on the surface, it was built on sensitive marine silts and clays, known as Leda clay, which were laid down during the Champlain Sea roughly 10,000 years ago.The 1993 Lemeiux landslide. Photo: South Nation Conservation Authority.On May 4, 1971, a landslide in Saint-Jean-Vianney, Quebec, which was caused by the same type of soil, resulted in the deaths of 31 people and the destruction of 40 homes.In the aftermath, the Geological Survey of Canada began soil testing in similar regions, including areas along the South Nation River. Tests confirmed that Lemieux, which at the time was compri...

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1 week ago David Adesnik: Hamas’s quiet removal of 1,850 people from death count another red flag

Media, UN take Gaza Health Ministry's numbers at face value, despite long list of irregularities

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2 w. ago Car in ditch at scene of OPP officer’s death was stolen, murder trial hears

The trial of two people accused in the shooting death of an OPP officer has heard that the car in a ditch at the site of the alleged murder was stolen the previous day. 

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3 w. ago Steelworkers Humanity Fund contributes $20,000 in response to humanitarian emergency caused by earthquake in Myanmar

TORONTO, April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Steelworkers Humanity Fund is donating $20,000 to Oxfam-Québec to support its appeal for the humanitarian emergency following the recent earthquake in Myanmar. Last week, a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar, causing widespread destruction. Estimates now put the official death toll at over 2,900 people, with thousands more injured […]

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