Relief is on the horizon with recent announcement that the Ontario government has designated Wataynikaneyap Power the transmission company to build an ambitious 1,800-kilometre power line linking 17 remote First Nations communities to the provincial power grid. Last December, the electricity grid in Margaret Kenequanash’s home community of North Caribou …
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Water taxi driver charged after boat hits father and son in kayak
Boat operator also dismissed, says company co-owner, after passengers stood up in front of him, blocking his view of Ben Leow and his son. It only took a second for Ben Leow to realize that he and his 8-year-old son were about to be mowed over by a water taxi …
Read More »First effort failed to stop outbreak at Toronto shelter
Testing and treatment of residents at the men’s homeless shelter seemed to be working until more cases in June. Toronto Public Health thought in May it had tamed the group-A strep outbreak at Seaton House shelter that has sickened 37 people, but was forced to call outside experts when the …
Read More »Survivors recount scene at Quetta hospital blast
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) – The Latest on the bombing at a hospital in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta (all times local): 1:40 p.m. A Pakistani man who survived the bombing of a hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta describes a horrifying scene, saying there were “bodies everywhere” after …
Read More »A star rises from poverty, is killed defying Pakistan norms
SHAH SADDERUDD, Pakistan (AP) – Like most of the men in this village of mud homes and wooden carts pulled by water buffalo, Muhammed Azeem cannot read or write. Like the other fathers, he raised a family of six boys and three girls on whatever he could coax out of …
Read More »Hizbul chief Syed Salahudeen warns of nuclear war between India, Pakistan; says there will be no compromise over Kashmir
Karachi: Terror leader Syed Salahuddin, the head of the Hizbul Mujahideen, has threatened a nuclear war between India and Pakistan over the Kashmir issue, saying that armed jihad is the only option left with suppressed Kashmiri people. Speaking to reporters in Karachi, Salahuddin said there is a great chance of …
Read More »Bulandshahr gang-rape case: UP Police clams ‘vital leads’; close to nabbing Bawaria gang head Salim?
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police, which is under tremendous pressure to arrest those involved in the Bulandshahr gang-rape case, has picked up 11 suspected members of the Saleem Bawaria gang for questioning in connection with the horrific incident. According to reports, those picked up by the police are believed to …
Read More »‘Shoot me not Dalits’: Is the Prime Minister so helpless?, asks Congress
New Delhi: Attacking Narendra Modi over his comments on the attack on Dalits and cow vigilantism, the Congress said that the Prime Minister’s helplessness has forced him to say that he should be shot instead of Dalits. “Prime Minister has become helpless, he has become weak and in this helplessness …
Read More »OMG! Pathankot man cuts his private parts after girl breaks up engagement
Chandigarh: This youth has been suffering from depression for sometime but little did his family realise he would take such an obnoxious step. The incident took place in Punjab’s Pathankot city. The boy met this girl after his first marriage with another woman was broken. And he seemed to be …
Read More »Punjab: After PM’s call, cow protection group chief booked for beating truckers
Police on Sunday booked the chief of a cow protection group and at least 20 others in Patiala district’s Rajpura town for allegedly beating up truck drivers carrying cows after Prime Minister Narendra Modi lashed out at self-styled cow protectors twice over the weekend. Members of the cow protection group …
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