Female-only skateboard clubs and classes are spreading across Toronto, helping shift the balance in a sport long dominated by men. A group of female skateboarders are kickflipping their way into Toronto skate parks, and a new generation of girls could soon be chasing them down the half-pipe. Babes Brigade, a …
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Indigenous youth connect on social network
A York University student’s new social network app for indigenous youth gets attention in Ontario’s north Imagine being thousands of kilometres from home, in a place where few people understand who you are or where you come from. You turn to social media, hoping to find a community, and instead …
Read More »Conquering the rocky darkness with the Toronto Caving Group
Throw in the lack of cellphone reception, combined with some wolf spiders, and you have yourself one seriously terrifying situation in a cave. In a cave, finding yourself between a rock and a hard place may just save your life. “You can’t make a mistake here,” veteran caver Gary Yankech …
Read More »Snapping up cheap spy tools, nations ‘monitoring everyone’
LIMA, Peru (AP) – It was a national scandal. Peru’s then-vice president accused two domestic intelligence agents of staking her out. Then, a top congressman blamed the spy agency for a break-in at his office. News stories showed the agency had collected data on hundreds of influential Peruvians. Yet after …
Read More »Campaign to recall Venezuela president completes first phase
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Electoral authorities on Monday certified that opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had gathered enough signatures to permit them to conduct a second petition drive aimed at removing the socialist leader from office. Officials said the opposition coalition successfully collected signatures from at least 1 percent …
Read More »‘Send Bhagwant Mann to rehab centre for drug and alcohol de-addiction’
New Delhi: A group of MPs have written to the Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan requesting that AAP MP Bhagwant Mann should be sent to a rehab centre for drug and alcohol de-addiction. The group, including Akali Dal’s Prem Singh Chandumajra, BJP’s Maheish Girri and suspended AAP MP Harinder Singh …
Read More »2006 Aurangabad arms haul case: Abu Jundal, 6 other convicts sentenced to life
Mumbai: Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal and six other convicts were awarded life imprisonment in 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case on Tuesday. Two others have been sentenced to life imprisonment and three others were awarded eight years jail term, besides penalties, by a Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act …
Read More »High-speed Talgo reaches Mumbai 3 hours late, attains maximum speed of 130 km/hr
Mumbai: Spanish-made high-speed train Talgo on Tuesday completed its third and final phase of trials from New Delhi to Mumbai, but arrived at its destination over three hours behind schedule. The train had commenced its final phase trial run from Delhi yesterday at 7:55 PM and arrived in Mumbai today …
Read More »Bulandshahr gangrape: SHAMEFUL! Azam Khan makes insensitive statement; minor victim’s father blasts him
Bulandshahr: UP Cabinet Minister and senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan has made a very insensitive and shameful remark on Bulandshahr gangrape. Shockingly, Azam Khan has said that the brutal gangrape of a mother-daughter duo in Bulandshahr could be a political conspiracy. “Elections are near and a desperate opposition can …
Read More »Capt Amarinder slams Akali Dal’s ‘innocent mistake’ theory for clearing SYL file
Punjab Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday slammed the reported “innocent mistake” theory floated by the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) about chief minister Parkash Singh Badal having cleared the file for the construction of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal in 1978. “Presuming that it was an innocent mistake, which …
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