At least three members of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are up for CFL awards this season. The CFL announced the finalists for the first three of their year-end awards and a Bombers player is nominated for all three. Bombers running back Brady Oliveira, offensive lineman Jarell Broxton, and defensive back Major Williams were all voted…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Additional police and drones for surveillance won’t reduce social issues despite mayoral candidates vowing to add more officers if elected, experts say. The Winnipeg Police Service receives 27 per cent or $370 million of the City of Winnipeg’s budget, according to the city’s 2026 budget. The city’s…
Mark Gordon sat quietly in the prisoner’s box of a packed courtroom in Oshawa Tuesday as a judge sentenced the 33-year-old to two concurrent life sentences with no eligibility for parole for 21 years for the fatal shootings of a Bowmanville teacher and her ex-husband, a former Oshawa Generals hockey player. Gordon pleaded guilty to…
In the run-up to Tuesday’s election Israel, perhaps the country’s most intensely scrutinized vote ever, the authorities and civil society groups mobilized to monitor the balloting, which many fear could be undermined by political interference and disinformation. In an office building north of Tel Aviv, dozens of volunteer tech workers and lawyers planned to squeeze…
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is facing another call for a leadership review from one of her United Conservative Party constituency boards. Scott Cyr, a backbencher in Smith’s caucus, says the board of his Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul constituency association passed the motion Monday. Cyr, in a social media post Tuesday, said it passed narrowly — 10…
A Nova Scotia man says he recently trained for his first marathon in the most Halifax way possible: by eating dozens of donairs. As part of his training, David Wadden trekked to 59 different locations to devour the pitas filled with spiced meat, fresh onions and tomatoes covered in a sweet sauce. Keeping with local tradition,…
Authorities are searching for a man convicted of murder who escaped from a Tennessee prison and stole a truck from a nearby farm. Jacob Morley, who was serving a life sentence for killing a co-worker four years ago, was found to be missing from the Northwest Correctional Complex (NWCX) late on Sunday. “At approximately 11:30…
In the run-up to Tuesday’s election Israel, perhaps the country’s most intensely scrutinized vote ever, the authorities and civil society groups mobilized to monitor the balloting, which many fear could be undermined by political interference and disinformation. In an office building north of Tel Aviv, dozens of volunteer tech workers and lawyers planned to squeeze…
The Canada-EU Summit being held this week in Montreal will serve to launch more formal negotiations on a deeper partnership over the next year, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday, Carney will meet with European Union President Ursula von der Leyen and other EU officials on Thursday and Friday in Montreal, where they are expected…
Israel’s political parties have finalized their candidate slates ahead of a general election on Oct. 27, which many Israelis and outside observers consider to be the most consequential vote in the country’s history. The campaign so far has been dominated by a battle between Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s polarizing prime minister, and Gadi Eisenkot, a former…
