Patrick Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s last surviving child, dies at 97
NEW YORK (AP) — Patrick Hemingway, the last surviving child of Ernest Hemingway who was inspired by his father to spend years in Africa and later oversaw numerous posthumous works by the Nobel laureate, died Tuesday at age 97. Hemingway,...
2 hikers dead, 3rd presumed dead after going over waterfall in southeast B.C.: police
KIMBERLEY — Police say the bodies of two hikers have been recovered and a third person is presumed dead after the trio fell over a waterfall in southeastern British Columbia. RCMP in Kimberley, B.C., say they were alerted by SOS...
Heavy rain on the way for Toronto
After sunshine and heat, a big pattern change is coming to Toronto as a cold front brings in 10 to 20 millimetres of rain on Thursday morning. Heavy rain with the risk of some thunderstorms are set to take over...
Highway 401 reopens after multiple closures across Durham region
Drivers on the Highway 401 saw major delays after multiple closures on Highway 401 due to multiple collisions on Wednesday afternoon. The eastbound lanes of Highway 401 were closed at Brock Street in Whitby after a collision that sent a...
Ontario hospital nurses awarded 5.25 per cent in raises, but decry lack of staffing ratios
An arbitrator has awarded Ontario’s hospital nurses pay increases of 5.25 per cent over two years, in a new contract their union calls disappointing. The terms of the contract as set by the arbitrator for about 60,000 hospital nurses include...
RCMP arrest 16, including ‘Queen of Canada,’ at conspiracy compound in Saskatchewan
RCMP say 16 people, including self-proclaimed “Queen of Canada” Romana Didulo, have been arrested in southwestern Saskatchewan. Followers of Didulo, who has promoted various conspiracy theories, set up a “Kingdom of Canada” compound in an old school in Richmound, west...
B.C. court dismisses challenge to university faculty association’s Gaza resolutions
VANCOUVER — The B.C. Supreme Court says the Simon Fraser University faculty association did not go beyond its “stated purposes” by passing resolutions condemning Israel’s actions in Gaza and calling for the university to divest from arms manufacturers. The resolutions...
43-year-old woman in custody after the stabbing of a man in Scarborough
A man in his 60s is dead after a stabbing in Scarborough on Tuesday evening, police say. The incident happened around 6:50 p.m. at 4301 Kingston Road, in the West Hill neighbourhood. Police responded to reports of a person that...
Cardi B wins case filed by security guard who claimed rapper assaulted her
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury gave Cardi B a quick and absolute victory Tuesday at a trial in the lawsuit of a security guard who alleged the rap star assaulted her at a doctor’s office during her then-secret first...
China displays its military strength in a parade on the 80th anniversary of the end...
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping, speaking before a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, said Wednesday that humanity today must choose between peace and war and between dialogue and confrontation....
