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Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Prime Minister Mark Carney called for an independent investigation into treatment of detained Gaza flotilla activists …
Read More »As her sexual abuser is sentenced, a victim speaks out to spread awareness
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. It was a moment of poignancy for Kayla Deveau-Adams: a judge’s pointed remarks that she didn’t …
Read More »Ford speaks after reversing course on purchase of $28.9M private jet
Premier Doug Ford is set to speak to reporters at noon Monday. This comes after the premier issued a statement Sunday, announcing the province will sell a $28.9 million private jet that had been purchased for his use. News Source link
Read More »‘We’re still a mess’: N.S. man who lost 3 loved ones in crash speaks out over driver’s sentence
The day of Oct. 21, 2023, started out well for Adam Gabriel and his family. Gabriel, then a resident of Springhill, N.S., had driven to the Annapolis Valley for the day with his wife, Amanda, to see their son play in an Acadia Axemen university football game. By the time …
Read More »‘We need to get them out’: Beluga trainer fired by Marineland speaks out
Marineland’s crumbling infrastructure, staffing shortage and lack of resources have created dangerous conditions for its belugas and they should be moved immediately, a fired beluga trainer says. Kristy Burgess, who worked at the Niagara Falls, Ont., park when a young beluga was put down in February, said Marineland’s threat to …
Read More »Xi Jinping — flanked by Putin and Kim — speaks of choice between war and peace at huge parade
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned the world was facing a choice between peace or war as he held his country’s largest-ever military parade at Tiananmen Square flanked by Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. The lavish event to mark 80 years since Japan’s defeat at the end of …
Read More »Autism Speaks is leaving Canada. Is that a good thing?
Some Canadians are celebrating a major autism organization’s decision to pull out of the country, highlighting a shift in the way people think about autism. Autism Speaks quietly announced last month that it will end its Canadian operations on Jan. 31. “The intentional decision to conclude was not taken lightly and has …
Read More »Family of woman killed in Gardiner hit-and-run speaks out, driver granted bail – Toronto
Mohammad Anas Ashna said his life was good in Canada until around 2 a.m. on July 4, when the Kia he was driving with his wife, daughter, sister-in-law and mother-in-law inside was rear-ended by an Audi Sedan on the eastbound Gardiner Expressway near Dufferin Street. Police said the Audi had …
Read More »‘Scared to take the TTC’: Widow speaks out after husband dies in subway station stabbing – Toronto
The widow of a man fatally stabbed at a Toronto subway station says she is going to get a driver’s licence and avoid the TTC after her life was “shattered” by the news of her husband’s death in late June. On June 26, 39-year-old Matthew Rumble was stabbed and killed …
Read More »N.S. parents ‘terrified’ over bullying, violence in schools. One student speaks out
Two parents in Nova Scotia are expressing frustrations regarding what they say is a lack of support for students who are at risk of physical violence and bullying in public schools. Laura Pellow said her son, who’s in his first year of junior high, was allegedly assaulted by a group …
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