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Read More »1 year ago, Alberta’s premier sought to lock down a ‘leaky’ border. Here’s what’s happened since
East of the small village of Coutts, Alta., a stone’s throw from the border with the United States, Cindy Bosch’s day-to-day life looks much like it did a year ago. Calving season on her ranch is still a busy time, with long hours and late nights. Bull sales are important …
Read More »They survived one of Canada’s first high school shootings. Here’s what happened next
Warning: This story discusses school violence, sexual assault and suicide. Ten years ago, Dennis Curley went back to what he calls “the scene of the crime” — back inside Classroom 71 of his Ottawa school. The St. Pius X High School alumnus was on a personal mission, bent on getting …
Read More »What happened to derail the 1st-degree murder trial for 2 of Megan Gallagher’s killers?
WARNING: This story contains graphic details about how a person was killed. It took only three days for the joint first-degree murder trial of Cheyann Peeteetuce and Summer-Sky Henry in Saskatoon to implode. On Jan. 8, 2025, the third day of the judge-alone trial at Court of King’s Bench that …
Read More »Here’s what happened the last time the U.S. forced regime change on Iran
Hours before Iran struck an American military base in Qatar on Monday in retaliation for the bombing of three of its nuclear facilities, U.S. President Donald Trump said what some experts feared could lead to history repeating itself. In a post on his social medial platform Truth Social on Sunday afternoon, Trump wrote, …
Read More »What happened the last time a U.S. president overrode a state to deploy the National Guard
On an unseasonably chilly but sunny day, March 20, 1965, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson stood on the porch of his Texas ranch and read a telegram he had just sent to Alabama Gov. George Wallace. “I am calling into federal service selected units of the Alabama National Guard… to …
Read More »The ‘Brantford Boomer’ is going viral — what really happened?
An image of a retired Liberal supporter looking into a camera and giving the middle finger with both hands has gone viral — especially in right-wing social media circles — as the “Brantford Boomer.” The brief interaction between the supporter and a cameraperson was just one of many confrontational moments that took place earlier …
Read More »This man lost his life savings to identity fraud. He doesn’t know how it happened
When Rick Hall discovered most of his life savings had been drained from his bank account, he suspected he had been hacked. The first clue came when his password didn’t work. Then, once he regained access, he saw that on Feb. 17 a total of $28,710 had been transferred to an unknown …
Read More »New Brunswick driver gets a $4,600 fine — for an accident that happened 65 years ago
After a fender-bender before Christmas, 85-year-old Ossie Gildart was told he’d have to take a driver’s test. But a surprise was waiting for him when he walked into Service New Brunswick in Bathurst. “He said, ‘Mr. Gildart, I’m sorry you can’t take the test, your licence has been suspended,'” Gildart …
Read More »What just happened in Aleppo, and what it means for Syria’s civil war
Opposition forces seeking to overthrow Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad launched their biggest offensive in years last week, retaking the northern city of Aleppo and driving government forces out of the region. It was the first significant development in years in Syria’s grinding civil war, which after almost 14 years had largely …
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