Winnipeg Homes for Heroes project gets ‘reboot’
There’s hope that Homes for Heroes can residents living in its veterans’ village in Transcona in 2025. Brad Field, ...
Marathon goat: animal runner wins hearts and a medal after crashing Newfoundland race
Partway through Sunday’s T’Railway Trek half marathon in Conception Bay South, N.L., an eager 68-kilogram (150 pound) goat named Joshua broke free from his collar and joined the runners on the route.
In the news today: Ontario MPP wants paid holiday for TRC day
Ontario’s only First Nation representative at Queen’s Park plans to soon table proposed legislation, in his own Indigenous language, to have the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation declared a ...
Kris Kristofferson, singer-songwriter and actor, dies at 88
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and an A-list Hollywood actor, has died. Kristofferson died at ...
Behind the loudest issues, the UN is a world stage for disputes that are often out of the spotlight
The world’s greatest stage is the sprawling Midtown Manhattan complex where leaders meet each year to discuss humanity’s future. The United Nations’ most powerful body — the Security Council _ is ...
How Helene became the near-perfect storm to bring widespread destruction across the South
Helene’s devastation began Thursday, hours before it made landfall, as it swept through the Gulf of Mexico. Its then-120-mph (193-kph) winds created storm surge that pushed 6-to-15-feet (2-to-4.5 ...
Tropical Weather Latest: US Southeast struggles to recover in Hurricane Helene's aftermath
Helene blew ashore in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 hurricane late Thursday and then quickly moved through Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee, uprooting trees, splintering homes and ...
Norway is mulling building a fence on its border with Russia, following Finland's example
To prevent Moscow using migrants in what the Finnish government calls Russia’s “hybrid warfare,” Helsinki is currently building fences with a total length of up to 200 kilometers (124 miles) in ...
'Megalopolis' flops, 'The Wild Robot' soars at box office
NEW YORK (AP) — Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making, self-financed epic “Megalopolis” flopped with moviegoers, while the acclaimed DreamWorks Animation family film “The Wild Robot” soared to ...
Gunmen storm a camp in Pakistan's southwest and kidnap 20 laborers
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen stormed a camp in Pakistan’s southwest and kidnapped 20 laborers, police said Sunday. It’s the second assault in as many days in restive Balochistan province, where ...
Biden says he hopes to visit Helene-impacted areas this week if it doesn't impact emergency response
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he will visit Hurricane Helene-impacted areas this week as long as it does not ...
France's new government pledges hardline stance on migration as it cozies up to far right
Macron’s former centrist governments passed since 2017 several bills meant to tighten immigration controls and accelerate asylum procedures. The latest immigration bill, adopted in January this year, ...