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Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A British Columbia licence plate that reads “FIVE-0” is getting the 86 from ICBC a decade after it was issued. Kamloops, B.C., resident Jimmy Jay says he …
Read More »Fire that grew to become part of Nova Scotia’s largest wildfire started on this man’s property
Mervyn Perry recalls turning off the TV and going to bed one night in May 2023 with no idea that a tire was being lit on fire on his land in Barrington, N.S., and that the flame would grow to be part of the largest wildfire in the province’s history. …
Read More »From Gaza to Europe via jet ski: A Palestinian man’s daring escape from the war
It took more than a year, several thousand dollars, ingenuity, setbacks and a jet ski: this is how Muhammad Abu Dakha, a 31-year-old Palestinian, managed to escape from Gaza to reach Europe. He documented his story through videos, photographs and audio files, which he shared with Reuters. Reuters also interviewed him and …
Read More »Man’s head found in Montreal’s Rivière-des-Prairies, Radio-Canada sources say
A human body part was found on Sunday afternoon in the Rivière-des-Prairies in the Montréal-Nord borough. Radio-Canada has since confirmed that it was a man’s head. After a 911 call at around 3 p.m., Montreal police spokesperson Julien Lévesque said that officers discovered an “inert part of a human body” on the banks of the …
Read More »How long can you live with advanced prostate cancer? This man’s still sailing and skiing 14 years later
Many people with advanced prostate cancer are living much longer due to new treatments, leading prostate cancer doctors say. Though they’re not often a cure, these innovations are turning a disease once considered a death sentence into a chronic illness that can be managed for years in some patients. Dr. …
Read More »Decades after his death, family repatriates First Nation man’s remains 1,200 km back home
It’s a day the Onabigon family has spent decades waiting for: the repatriation of their uncle, Percy Onabigon, back to Long Lake #58 First Nation. Percy was taken from the northern Ontario community as a young child and put into St. Joseph’s Indian Residential School in Thunder Bay. From there, …
Read More »Trump’s fixation on wrongly deported man’s tattoos nothing but a distraction, says lawyer
As It Happens6:24Trump’s fixation on wrongly deported man’s tattoos nothing but a distraction, says lawyer It doesn’t matter what kind of tattoos Kilmar Abrego Garcia has, says his lawyer. What matters, says Rina Gandhi, is that her client was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, where he remains imprisoned without charge …
Read More »‘That was the plan, light her on fire’: Closing submissions at Ontario man’s murder trial
Norbert Budai’s behaviour was absurd and shocking when he lit his ex-wife, Henrietta Viski’s hair on fire after he learned she was cheating on him. However, reasonable doubt exists as to whether he planned and deliberated her murder, according to Budai’s lawyer, Loui Dallas. During closing submissions at Budai’s first-degree …
Read More »‘I’m so happy to be here’: Winnipeg man’s experience with necrotizing fasciitis – Winnipeg
For Kyle Lemke, a walk through his Winnipeg neighbourhood in the North End is a gift. “I’m so happy to be here,” he said. In September 2023, Kyle Lemke began to feel sick while visiting a friend in downtown Winnipeg. “I thought it was a flu,” he said. He went …
Read More »A man’s ‘wild experience’ of going from fan to caddie at PGA’s Canadian Open
Aurora, Ont.’s Paul Emerson says his heart rate went up pretty quickly when he was called into action to carry clubs after a pro golfer’s caddie wiped out on steep grass at the third hole of the RBG Canadian Open in Hamilton on Sunday. “He was pretty badly hurt,” Emerson …
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