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Read More »An Uber drove away with her kid. Then Uber wouldn’t connect her or police with the driver
Within seconds, Julia says she was facing a parent’s worst nightmare. She, her boyfriend, and the four kids between them, took an Uber back to his place from a Toronto Raptors game during March Break because of a flat tire. Julia’s five-year-old daughter fell asleep in the far back row …
Read More »Ontario man frustrated Meta wouldn’t pull video appearing to show drunk man fooling car ignition lock
Aaron Hagen of Bruce County, Ont., says he’s frustrated a social media video of a man appearing to trick an alcohol ignition interlock, allowing him to drive drunk, wasn’t taken down after Hagen contacted Meta with concerns it encouraged impaired driving. Hagen said he first saw the video last week while scrolling Facebook, …
Read More »This boy hurt in collision didn’t have an Indian status card, so Ottawa wouldn’t pay for medical evacuation
The family of a seven-year-old boy from Deer Lake First Nation who was denied medical transportation coverage because he didn’t yet have an Indian status card is calling for changes to Ottawa’s Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) program. Jordan Harper was seriously injured, and his grandmother died, in January in a head-on collision with another …
Read More »Joe Biden pardons son Hunter of gun, tax convictions, despite promise he wouldn’t do so
U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday night pardoned his son, Hunter, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family. The Democratic president had previously …
Read More »‘I wouldn’t be here’: Ontario supervised consumption site users speak out on closures
Reggie Garrett remembers snippets of the first time he was saved from a fatal overdose. A few years ago, while at a supervised consumption site in downtown Toronto, he overdosed on fentanyl, with the powerful opioid working to shut down his body. A staffer rushed to give him an opioid …
Read More »Air safety expert on plane crash in Brazil: ‘I wouldn’t fly ’em’
Mary Schiavo carefully describes what she saw happen when Voepass Linhas Aéreas Flight 2283 plummeted to the ground in Brazil Friday, an airline crash that killed all 62 aboard. “This video provided a tremendous number of clues,” Schiavo told Global News in an interview from Charleston, S.C., commenting on mobile …
Read More »Masking alone wouldn’t have eased Ontario’s respiratory virus surge in the fall: PHO document
TORONTO — Introducing a mask mandate when respiratory viruses surged in the fall may not have eased the crush on pediatric hospitals, a Public Health Ontario science brief obtained by The Canadian Press concludes. The brief — which was not proactively made public, unlike the reports done by the now-defunct …
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