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A Calgary company has joined the call for better cellphone service after months of no service and repeated dropped calls. C Mac Mechanical Ltd. told Global News that its cellphone service with Telus has been spotty since it moved into its current location 15 years ago, but it’s been virtually …
Read More »N.L.’s cost of living cheques being sent to dead people, says opposition MHA
Provincial government cost of living relief cheques are getting issued to people who have died since filing their 2021 tax return. (iStock) An Independent politician in Newfoundland and Labrador says he has been fielding calls from residents who have received cost-of-living cheques for spouses who have recently died. Mount Pearl-Southlands MHA Paul …
Read More »‘Half [of] me is dead’: A Ukrainian survivor of the Azovstal siege waits to reunite her family
Anna Zaitseva and her husband Kirilo had only a few stolen moments together last winter in a deep, dark underground shelter. Those fleeting, poignant reunions were over before they started. They happened amid the cacophony of shelling and earth-shaking airstrikes as the Russian military’s noose tightened around their hometown, the southern Ukrainian port city of …
Read More »Several humpback whales found dead on B.C.’s coast in a matter of weeks
Several humpback whales have been found dead in B.C. in the span of just a few weeks, and it appears humans may be the cause in at least three of the cases. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has identified at least five and possibly six humpbacks found dead on B.C. …
Read More »Indigenous people ‘invisible’ to police, family says, after missing Vancouver man confirmed dead
After spending the last two weeks papering downtown Vancouver with missing person posters of Darius Smallboy, the young Indigenous man’s family has just learned he was lying dead in a city morgue the entire time. Smallboy’s family is now speaking out about what they allege was an indifferent response from …
Read More »Glaring safety issues in group home fire that left 2 men with disabilities dead: report
By the time a fire truck pulled up in the early morning hours of Christmas Eve 2018, flames were erupting from the windows and shooting up over the roofline. Trapped inside the small, west Edmonton bungalow were three men, all developmentally disabled, unable to escape. The group home’s sole worker …
Read More »2 police officers dead after Innisfil, Ont., shooting
Two police officers are dead following a shooting in an Innisfil, Ont., home. In a news release, South Simcoe Police Service said its officers responded to a call at a home near 25th Sideroad and 9th Line shortly before 8 p.m. on Tuesday. According to police, two officers were shot while …
Read More »British Canadian crime novelist Peter Robinson dead at age 72
Peter Robinson, the prolific British Canadian crime novelist and creator of the popular Alan Banks series of books, has died, his publisher confirmed on Friday. The Toronto-based Robinson died on Oct. 4, 2022 at the age of 72. “Peter Robinson was an incredibly gifted writer and a lovely man, and …
Read More »17 children among the dead in Indonesian soccer stampede
Seventeen children were among at least 125 people killed in a soccer stampede in Indonesia at the weekend, officials said, as pressure builds on the Southeast Asian nation to explain how one of the world’s worst stadium disasters unfolded. Violence and hooliganism have long been features of Indonesian football, especially in places such …
Read More »Oscar-winning ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ actor Louise Fletcher dead at 88
Louise Fletcher, an actor whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award, has died at age 88. Fletcher died in her sleep surrounded by family at her home in …
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