Collision between multiple motorcycles and one tractor trailer around 3 a.m. on Highway 401, east of Keele St. A motorcyclist is dead and another is in serious condition after a multi-vehicle crash involving motorcycles and a transport truck on Highway 401 early Saturday morning, Sgt. Kerry Schmidt confirmed. At about …
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Crumbling, crowded Milton courthouse an ‘unmitigated disaster’
The sad state of the courthouse in one of the country’s fastest growing cities is causing some cases to be thrown out. The elevator often doesn’t work, pieces of the ceiling have fallen down, there has been flooding in at least one courtroom, and the premises are so cramped that …
Read More »Torontonians want texting-and-walking ban, poll says
New Forum Research polls also shed light on what we think of the TORONTO sign and the street hockey ban. Some politicians call the idea of a ban on texting while walking “silly,” but that hasn’t stopped a majority of Toronto residents from being in favour of it. A new …
Read More »IS attack on Afghan protest kills at least 80, wounds 231
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – At least 80 people were killed and another 231 wounded in the Afghan capital on Saturday, when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed clothing among a large crowd of demonstrators, officials and witnesses said. In a statement issued by its news agency, Aamaq, the Islamic State …
Read More »Sushma Swaraj lashes out at Nawaz Sharif, says Pakistan will never succeed in making Kashmir a ‘terror hell’
New Delhi: Taking a tough stand on Kashmir, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Saturday, hit out at Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for calling slain Hizbul Mujahidden Burhan Wani a ‘martyr’. “Pakistan PM called Burhan Wani a ‘martyr’. Doesn’t he know that Burhan Wani was a commander of terror outfit …
Read More »Kashmir unrest: CM Mehbooba meets kin of victims, seeks public help to end violence
Srinagar: Hitting out at elements who were glorifying the killings in Kashmir and playing politics over graves, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said they never bother to look back at the victims’ families and sought public cooperation to end violence which has only brought destruction to the state. Visiting …
Read More »Punjab braveheart challenges J&K separatists, says will hoist tricolour at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk on Aug 15
Chandigarh: Fifteen-year-old girl from Ludhiana, Jhanvi Behal, who took social media by storm in March this year after she challenged Jawaharlal Nehru University student union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar for an open debate on freedom of expression, has now announced that she will be hoisting Indian tricolour at Lal Chowk …
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