President Trump kept up the attacks on NBC’s Kristen Welker on Monday, calling her a “dyed-in-the-wool, radical left Democrat.” Welker is set to moderate the final presidential debate on Thursday from Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. Over the weekend, the New York Post reported that Welker’s parents had donated to Democrats. The Post also reported that Welker herself was […]
An Ontario widow is locked in a four-year battle with Apple over online material she already legally owns. Carol Anne Noble of Toronto wants access to an Apple account she and her husband shared — but was under his name — so she can fulfil a promise she made to him before he died. But instead of […]
Ontario’s chief medical officer of health is officially recommending against trick-or-treating come Halloween in the four areas of the province – Ottawa, Toronto, Peel and York Region – subject to modified Stage 2 restrictions, intended to address higher than average rates of COVID-19 transmission. Dr. David Williams advised Ontarians in these areas to consider “alternative ways to […]
Covid-19 cases are rising in many parts of Canada, but one region – Nunavut, a northern territory – is a rare place in North America that can say it’s free of coronavirus in its communities. Last March, as borders around the world were slamming shut as coronavirus infections rose, officials in Nunavut decided they too […]
The total number of COVID-19 cases in Canada has passed 200,000. The latest cases from Saskatchewan lifted the national tally over the bleak milestone. The development comes just over four months after Canada reached the 100,000-case threshold. The bulk of the country’s caseload has been concentrated in Ontario and Quebec, though numbers have been surging […]
A dancer who appeared in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Paralympics Games in London has died at the age of 56. Dave Toole, from Leeds, was watched by a TV audience of millions as he performed an aerial routine suspended high above the Olympic Stadium. He was born without the use of his legs, […]
Although Canada and the U.S. have agreed to close their shared land border to non-essential travel, they don’t appear to agree on several related issues — including what to do next. More than seven months after the border closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump have offered up contradictory messages about […]
For a story to warm the hearts of readers the writer must first of all either re-create history or share one that will set a new path for readers, Stacy M. Amewoyi drew the readers’ attention to her ability to do both but with impressive delight in the former. That has somehow placed her in […]
The U.S. federal government, continuing its string of executions this year, has set the dates for two more, including the first woman in more than six decades. Lisa Montgomery is expected to receive lethal injection on December 8, the Justice Department says. In 2004, she was convicted of strangling a Missouri woman who was eight-months […]
TORONTO — Canadians’ opinions of their neighbour and biggest trading partner sank to record lows over the past year, with more than three in five Canadians holding an unfavourable view of the United States and a growing minority who see the country as an enemy, according to the Environics Institute survey, Focus Canada, published on Thursday. […]
