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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday to sign up to a ceasefire in its war against Ukraine if he is “serious about peace” and said allies will “keep the pressure” on the Kremlin, including financially and militarily. At the end of a virtual meeting of …
Read More »He’s the face of Trump’s tariffs. But 9/11 attacks put Howard Lutnick on the national stage
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Howard Lutnick took his five-year-old son to school for his first day of kindergarten, causing the Wall Street CEO to be a little late getting to work at his World Trade Center office in New York City. That delay ended up saving the life of Lutnick, who is now …
Read More »He was critically hurt in a 2009 car crash. He’s still in hospital, 16 years later
Ken Rekowski has had to make a home of his room at the Renfrew Victoria Hospital for most of the last 16 years. The 53-year-old was first admitted in 2009 after a car crash left him with a serious brain injury. Since then, he’s been waiting for suitable permanent care in …
Read More »Elton John says he’s dealing with loss of eyesight
Elton John says he struggled to watch his new musical because he has lost his eyesight after contracting an infection. The music superstar attended the opening night of The Devil Wears Prada in London on Sunday and told the audience that “I haven’t been able to come to many of …
Read More »Trump’s former chief of staff says he’s a fascist. Harris says it reveals who Trump ‘really is’
Kamala Harris said Wednesday that recently reported comments Donald Trump made to his longest-serving chief of staff offer a window into who the former president “really is” and the kind of commander-in-chief he would be. In interviews with The New York Times and The Atlantic published Tuesday, John Kelly warned …
Read More »Health minister says he’s on track to strike pharmacare deals with provinces by spring
It “absolutely is possible” for the federal government to strike pharmacare agreements with all the provinces by the spring, Health Minister Mark Holland said Friday. “I’m not saying this is going to be easy,” Holland said from the G7 health ministers’ meeting in Ancona, Italy. “Getting this bill adopted in …
Read More »Police wrongly impound Ontario man’s car saying it was stolen. Now he’s out $4K
A Hamilton, Ont., motorist is out-of-pocket more than $4,000 and lost the use of his vehicle for 50 days after police towed and impounded the compact SUV, claiming it was likely stolen. It wasn’t. “I was very confused,” said Gerben Vanden Heuvel, 36, in an interview with Global News. And …
Read More »Canadian soldier explains why he’s returning to Ukraine’s eastern trenches
Dave Smith says no one in his family was too surprised when he told them he was going to quit his job as a major in the Canadian Armed Forces to fight in the muddy trenches of eastern Ukraine. “I actually never had to explain it to them. My brother, …
Read More »‘He’s so evil’: Mother of Toronto toddler killed after eating poisoned cereal speaks out – Toronto
Francis Ngugi, a 47-year-old sanitation worker who put a poisonous chemical in a cereal container, killing a Scarborough toddler in March 2021, has been sentenced to life in prison with a parole ineligibility period of 17 years. In handing down her sentence Friday, Justice Maureen Forestell accepted the joint position …
Read More »He was passed over at the NHL draft. He’s now the OHL’s top goal scorer
It’s not very often that you see three names from one team leading a league in scoring but as of Thursday morning, that was the case in the Ontario Hockey League. Three Kitchener Rangers — Hunter Brzustewicz, Adrian Misaljevic and Carson Rehkopf — were tied for the league lead in …
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