A cat that was found injured and frozen to the ground in Newfoundland will likely need to have his left hind leg amputated, and may be incontinent, according to officials at Charlottetown’s Atlantic Veterinary College. But several people are still interested in adopting Trooper, as he’s been affectionately named, said the manager of the Bay [...]
Police say two brothers from Toronto have been charged with the first-degree murder of a Scarborough barber. Christopher Thompson, 35, was shot while cutting a customer’s hair at the Cut Creator barbershop in the Malvern Town Centre on Jan. 24. Surveillance video showed a man outside the barbershop in the moments before Thompson was killed [...]
Close to 45,000 Canadians have joined the NDP since the party’s leadership race began last fall and the biggest gains were in Ontario and Quebec, new figures show. The latest membership numbers were released Tuesday following Saturday’s cut-off date for eligibility to vote in the leadership convention next month. The NDP now has 128,351 members [...]
A Gatineau woman who has turned 105 years old was praised for her lifelong fire and energy during a celebration on Monday. Sarah Patenaude Bruyère celebrated her birthday at Chartwell’s Residence Le Monastère in Aylmer, alongside family and local politicians who stopped by to giver her their best wishes. Officially the oldest person in Gatineau, [...]
The driver of a pickup truck involved in a deadly head-on collision with a limousine outside Whistler last month was allegedly drunk and claimed to be high on LSD at the time of the crash, CBC News has learned. According to court documents, the driver of the truck told police he took a couple of [...]
The Laurier BBQA restaurant has cut ties with the British chef Gordon Ramsay, claiming that he wasn’t contributing enough. The restaurant had been renovated and rechristened with Ramsay’s name only last summer. Recently, Ramsay’s name was removed from the outdoor sign and the restaurant announced on its Twitter page Thursday that it would be known, from [...]
Ryan Dickinson has become first person to be sentenced in Vancouver’s 2011 Stanley Cup riot, getting 17 months for throwing a newspaper box onto a police car windshield and smashing a store window. The sentence was handed down Thursday in Vancouver. Crown prosecutors had asked the court for a sentence as long as 18 months [...]
A 4.7-magnitude earthquake shivered across northern Vancouver Island around 10:30 p.m. PT Wednesday, the second to strike the region in two days. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the epicentre of the latest earthquake struck off the coast about 145 kilometres west of Ucluelet, but there were no reports of any damage. A day earlier, [...]
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