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For the last nine months, Emilio Pulla has been checking for weather updates in Italy. The reason Pulla, a Toronto-based wholesaler, is hoping for rain halfway across the world is that the lack of it — and the resulting hit to olive trees, and their buds — has been hurting …
Read More »New bar looking to end LGBTQ+ nightlife drought in Atlantic Canada’s biggest city – Halifax
As a closeted gay teenager walking through downtown Halifax in the early 1980s, Daniel MacKay drew hope from the bright lights, giggles and thumping bass coming from a boisterous bar called The Turret on Barrington Street. MacKay was there to catch a glimpse of the patrons trickling in and out …
Read More »Canada’s federal agencies ill-equipped to fight cybercrime, auditor finds – National
Three key agencies lacked the “capacity and tools” to effectively protect Canadians from cyberattacks and tackle the growing threat of online crime, the federal spending watchdog has found. In a report Tuesday, Auditor General Karen Hogan describes breakdowns in response, co-ordination, enforcement, tracking, and analysis between and across the organizations. …
Read More »One of Canada’s most wanted arrested in Hamilton, facing murder charge in Kitchener
Descrease article font size Increase article font size One of Canada’s most wanted fugitives with ties to a fatal shooting in downtown Kitchener last summer has been arrested in Hamilton, Ont. Hamilton police say Habiton Solomon, 21, was picked up during an unrelated investigation in the city centre Friday with …
Read More »Crowdsourcing app helps prove endangered snail still on Canada’s mainland
It was thought the Shagreen snail could only be found in Canada on Middle Island and Pelee Island in Lake Erie, but photographs uploaded to a crowdsourcing nature app have proved the endangered snail is on the mainland, just outside of Woodstock, Ont. Scott Gillingwater, species at risk biologist with …
Read More »A look at the twisted crimes of Peter Demeter, one of Canada’s worst criminals
Christine Demeter was the victim of a murder-for-hire plot at the hands of her husband, Peter Demeter. To this day, no one has ever been charged for her physical murder. Global News / Getty Images On a warm summer night in 1973, real estate developer Peter Demeter pulled a Mercedes …
Read More »Here’s where Canada’s first Shake Shack will open in downtown Toronto
When Shake Shack crosses the border into Canada later this year, it will make its debut at one of the country’s most prominent intersections with a menu largely borrowing from what it serves in the U.S. The fast-food company’s first Canadian location will take over the northeast corner of Yonge-Dundas …
Read More »Canada’s most wanted list: Toronto suspect in fatal shooting at No. 1
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Toronto suspect wanted for the fatal shooting of another man has topped Canada’s Top 25 Most Wanted List as $1 million in total combined rewards is being offered for information that leads to the arrests of fugitives on the list. The updated …
Read More »Billionaire who wants off Canada’s Russia sanctions list denounces Putin – National
A billionaire trying to get off Canada’s Russia sanctions list denounced Vladimir Putin and the Ukraine war in a private statement to the government but it didn’t work, Global News has learned. Igor Makarov, an oil and gas magnate whose assets were frozen by Ottawa in 2022 in response to …
Read More »ANALYSIS: Why not Winnipeg? Could Jets break Canada’s Stanley Cup drought? – Winnipeg
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The NHL’s regular season is finally over, and now the hard work begins. By qualifying for the Stanley Cup playoffs, 16 teams get a chance to play up to 28 more games to win the Stanley Cup. In a way, it’s an …
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