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Diane Ryan waited on the church stairs in her community of Amqui, Que., the day after a driver rammed into pedestrians on a busy boulevard in a brazen alleged attack. The fatal crash killed two men and injured nine others Monday in what Quebec provincial police have described as a …

A Winnipeg councillor says he’s received a number of calls from constituents concerned about traffic tickets they’re receiving in a construction area just south of the city. Coun. Markus Chambers (St. Norbert – Seine River) told Global News unclear signage seems to be the cause of many residents getting dinged …

Six people were sent to hospital, including three in critical condition after firefighters in Winnipeg rescued residents trapped in a burning apartment building early Christmas morning. A city news release says members of the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service responded to the six-storey building on Qu’Appelle Avenue shortly after 4 a.m. …

As we hit the peak of the holiday season, the City of Kingston, Ont., hopes its residents will waste less this year. The City of Kingston encourages residents to avoid creating unnecessary garbage when exchanging gifts this holiday season. “Each non-recyclable item we send to landfill contributes to greenhouse gas …

A fire at a home on Manitoba Avenue in Winnipeg on Saturday left residents in need of a place to stay, the city says. Fire crews were called to the one-and-a-half-storey home in the 600 block of Manitoba Avenue around 4:19 p.m. Firefighters found smoke and flames coming from the …

Residents at a not-for-profit downtown Winnipeg seniors housing complex say they’re worried about what’s going to happen if a tentative plan to sell the building to a private out-of-province buyer goes through. Residents at Lions Place learned from a letter slipped under their doors late last week about an agreement …

Like so many people contemplating long-term care, Louis Capozzi said he was nervous about what he would find when he started looking at homes. “I heard so many awful things about, you know, people getting not well taken care of, laying in bed, needing to be changed and people hitting them …

Fogo Island has been without a bank since August, and residents are pushing for another. (Patrick Morell/CBC) Fogo Island has been without a bank since August and residents are clamouring for a new financial institution to open so they can avoid a ferry ride and a 130-kilometre drive to Gander …

The impending closure of another assisted living facility for people with mental illness in Metro Vancouver has residents and their caregivers worried about the impacts on their health. The 12 people who live in Buena Vista Lodge in White Rock, about 50 kilometres southeast of Vancouver near the Canada-U.S. border, have …

A plan to build a massive warehouse complex close to a residential neighbourhood has emerged as one of the election issues in Oakville. With a week to go before the vote, locals say they’re worried that local authorities aren’t listening to their concerns about potential problems the development at Winston Churchill Boulevard and …