While Canada may be diving into the deep end against No. 2 Belgium on Wednesday at the World Cup, the team belief appears strong on the eve of its plunge. “We don’t hope no more, we believe,” veteran midfielder Jonathan Osorio told reporters after training Sunday. ‘And we’re very confident …

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance needs to reinvigorate its military capacity in order to support Ukraine for the “long haul.” In an interview Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live, Stoltenberg said the alliance had depleted much of its own supplies of weapons and ammunition and would need to work with industry …

Two women who came forward in 2012 with allegations of sexual harassment at the University of Prince Edward Island have been unable to provide testimony in an ongoing review because they signed non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), according to the lawyer representing them. That review, by the Toronto-based law firm Rubin Thomlinson, …

Stalen Venator was just 21 months old when diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.  He’s now a seven-year-old in Oromocto whose favourite hobby is to make others laugh.  Stalen, who doesn’t speak, has used an IPad to communicate his jokes on Facebook each week for the last two years.  Recently, he …

The owner of an apartment tower dubbed one of the worst in the city by tenant advocates goes before a city panel Monday morning facing a list of property standards violations that is 15 pages long. Carolyn Krebs, who also goes by Carolyn Goodman and Marian Linton, has appealed to the Toronto and …

Two families say they are still in shock after losing loved ones from an explosion at an oil and gas site on Nov. 12. Greg Podulsky, 29, and Darcy Schwindt, 47, were killed after a blast at the Marten Hills site, northeast of Slave Lake, about 250 kilometres north of Edmonton. The …

A potential Canadian military intervention in Haiti can’t happen unless all political parties in the troubled nation agree to it, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday. Speaking from Tunisia on the final day of the two-day Francophonie summit, Trudeau announced $16.5 million to help stabilize Haiti, where gangs are strangling …

When Donald Maisonneuve and Marie-Paule Philion began the 28-hour drive to Regina from Ottawa for the Grey Cup last Tuesday, the couple didn’t even have tickets to the game. “The worst-case scenario was that we would have to go to a restaurant, order food and watch the game on the big …

An earthquake shook Indonesia’s main island of Java on Monday, killing at least 46 people, damaging dozens of buildings and sending residents into the capital’s streets for safety. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-5.6 quake was centred in the Cianjur region in West Java province at a depth of …

“Stay home when sick” came before “mask up” as a message to prevent spread early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that influenza, RSV and other viruses have joined the mix, the original advice holds true more than ever, say some Canadian doctors. The triple threat of respiratory viruses slamming pediatric …