Veterans Affairs Canada says one of the country’s last surviving Second World War veterans has died. A social media post from the federal agency says William (Bill) Wilson died Monday at 101. He was born in Manitoba in 1924, and served aboard the HMCS Ottawa and took part in the bloody D-Day landings on the…
A book about Greek antiquities has been returned to an Australian public library 150 years overdue, with water damage from being bricked behind a fireplace. The book was returned to the library in the coastal town of Kiama, New South Wales, last week by a local named Ross Simmons, who found it inside a crate…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size An Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer has been charged with assault following an investigation into an on-duty traffic stop in North York earlier this year. The incident happened on Jan. 2, when an officer driving an unmarked cruiser stopped a vehicle on Yonge Street, according to a…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Three people from Quebec are facing charges related to the production and trafficking of drugs following an investigation that saw a secret meth lab dismantled last year. RCMP said a case was opened by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit in the fall of 2024. In May…
As festival-goers get ready to take on Montreal this weekend, Osheaga is reminding attendees of a new and stricter bag policy. The festival announced on social media earlier this month that large bags, including backpacks and other bags up to a maximum size of 30 x 30 x 23 cm, must be transparent. Smaller bags,…
Anthropic said its artificial intelligence models hacked into three other organizations during testing, just days after ChatGPT maker OpenAI raised concerns over AI controls after it disclosed its rogue models hacked another company. Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI company behind Claude, posted on its website Thursday that it discovered the three incidents after reviewing more than 141,000 evaluation runs. 7:25…
Some 60,000 migrants have entered Spain’s Ceuta from Morocco in the past 24 hours, Ceuta’s president says. That is equivalent to 70 per cent of the city’s regular population. At least 34 migrants have died in the process. “The situation that Ceuta is going through is absolutely unsustainable,” said Juan Jesús Vivas on Friday. The…
Hamas said Friday that it reached an agreement to disarm, a significant move that could help end the conflict in Gaza — but one that will face many hurdles and could take a long time to achieve, if at all. The group agreed to a road map as long as Israel also makes concessions, including…
Ontario’s new ticket resale legislation appears to be driving traffic to more loosely-regulated marketplaces, according to some season ticket holders, as sellers look for new means of selling tickets for a profit while skirting provincial laws. The legislation, aimed at levelling the playing field for sports fans and concertgoers, mandated that resale tickets cannot be…
Municipal councils across Canada are seeing outside influence creeping into local agendas in the form of lengthy submissions by people who don’t live where decisions are being made. Sarah Turnbull, a councillor in the City of Regina, told Global News she receives hundreds of “copy and paste” emails in her inbox daily from people across…
