With the approach of the COP26 climate summit, South Africa is negotiating with a handful of wealthy nations about how to overhaul its ailing electricity sector in what could become a model of climate finance for other countries heavily dependent upon ...
The man's body had suffered violent injuries, according to officers. Police made the arrest hours later on Sunday and say the suspect is meeting with investigators from the Montreal police department's major crimes unit. This ...
Another failure is likely when the leaders from the 20 big economies join a much wider group at the United Nations COP26 gathering in Glasgow on Monday, where 120 leaders are meant to set out new pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Several sources on the call told CNN that President Joe Biden has committed to progressives that all 50 Democrats in the Senate would support the legislative text as voted on by the House and that the Congressional Progressive Caucus is taking the ...
Calgary EMS confirm to CTV News that a young girl and male youth were both taken to hospital following a crash on Richmond Road S.W.. Officials say the incident took place at about 2 p.m., near Sarcee Trail S.W.. Three vehicles were involved in the ...
ROME, Oct 31 (Reuters) - An emotional U.S. President Joe Biden, who has come away from his visit with papal backing in his conflict with conservative U.S. bishops, on Sunday praised Pope Francis for being "everything I admire about Catholicism.".
The Ontario Provincial Police have charged three people after a cyclist was killed in a collision involving a stolen vehicle on Saturday evening. Michael Smith, 59, of London, Ont. was pronounced deceased on the scene on Oct. 30 at Wilson Line east of ...
HALIFAX – For the second time in just 24 hours, Halifax Regional Police are investigating a shooting in Dartmouth's Caledonia neighbourhood. Police were called to the area of Ruben Court and Roleika Drive around 7:30 p.m on Saturday for a report of ...
The rally made its way to the Rialto Theater where mourners laid flowers and candles to pay tribute to Bonnier. Bonnier is remembered as a talented actor, singer and ...
Several hundred people gathered in the playground of F.A.C.E. school on Saturday afternoon and then walked up Parc Ave. to the Rialto Theatre to pay tribute to the 24-year-old Montrealer. Bonnier was stabbed to death in the McGill Ghetto less than two ...
A barrage of heat waves, flooding and other extreme weather disasters around the world was underscoring in visceral ways what scientists proclaimed louder than ever: that climate change is a real and urgent threat.
President Biden received communion on Saturday evening at St. Patrick's Church in Rome, a day after he announced that Pope Francis had told him during their long private meeting at the Vatican that he should continue taking the sacrament.
Cochrane RCMP say they have responded to several car crashes west of Calgary on Saturday, including a rolled semi-tractor and trailer, as the first snowfall of the season yesterday combined with low overnight temperatures has caused icy driving ...
It has exposed a gaping chasm between the scientific consensus, which says humanity must rapidly reduce the emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases to avert climate catastrophe, and what political leaders and many corporate executives have been ...
Leaders of the world's biggest economies have endorsed a global minimum tax on corporations as part of an agreement on new international tax rules. By DAVID McHUGH, FRANCES D'EMILIO and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press. October 30, 2021, 1:13 PM.
“Thanks to information received from the public, Grande Prairie RCMP were able to further their investigation, locating the suspect vehicle and arresting the suspect,” said Sgt. Shawn Graham with the Grande Prairie RCMP.
The Federal Government has expressed commitment to enlist its membership of the global Financial Action Task Force on money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog. The government said the measure aimed to address the challenges of money laundering ...
Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan died in hospital on July 11, 2015 after being transferred from the Central East Correctional Centre, otherwise known as Ontario's Lindsay jail. He had been held for three years by the Canada Border ...
A Winnipeg hospital is sharing more details about an incident between two employees that have sha... 2021 10 29 judyswain Judy Swain. Photo credit: Twitter/DirectFarmMBFriends ...
A 25-year-old Regina man is facing robbery and forcible confinement charges after a home invasion. At about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Regina police were called to the 700 block of King St. for a report that three women had been tied up, held at gun point ...
London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) says it has “witnessed an increase in uncivil discourse directed towards staff, physicians and fellow patients, both in person and online” in recent weeks as the London, Ont., hospital network gets ready to ...
Police in Guelph, Ont., say they are looking for a missing 25-year-old man who hasn't been heard from in nearly three weeks. In a news release, police said Nicholas Frost cut off ties with a local service agency that had been assisting him.
Democratic leaders are racing to secure an agreement with progressives on the larger spending bill as President Biden departs for his foreign trip to Europe. Biden attended a caucus meeting this morning to lay out the framework of ...
Disgraced former fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been transferred to Toronto from Winnipeg to face multiple charges of sexual assault, the CBC has learned. Winnipeg police confirmed Thursday they assisted Toronto police in executing a warrant for ...
Police say a body was found Sunday evening on The Glen Road in Mariposa Township. A post-mortem exam carried out subsequently confirmed the woman's body to be that of Ava Burton, 58. Her son is accused of murdering both his mother and grandmother.
“The question is 'why'? What would have been to gain from this? What was the purpose?” Craig Boals, general manager of Cataraqui Cemetery, asked Thursday afternoon. “It's just so senseless and disrespectful.”.
At the Paris climate conference in 2015, countries agreed to work to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), aiming for 1.5 C (2.7 F). If COP21 in Paris was the agreement on a destination, COP26 is the review of itineraries and ...
Instead of a wealth tax or a special tax on billionaires, Mr. Biden rolled out a new “surtax” on income for multimillionaires and billionaires. It would effectively raise the top tax rate on ordinary income to 45 percent for the highest earners.
Young climate activists from the Caribbean say they have gotten little to no support to attend COP26 despite representing the demographic that stands to face the worst effects of the climate crisis. Even those poised to play a formal role in drafting ...
Though snow is expected Friday morning, the City of Calgary says its crews are prepared to launch their snow-clearing operations and keep roads clear. "Our crews are ready, our material is ready, our equipment is ready — and we'll be out there tackling ...
Property crime in downtown Vancouver is reaching unheard-of levels, as thieves removed a pane of glass with professional tools to get at a number of expensive bicycles. Jordan Armstrong reports.
The world is getting hotter with global average temperatures increasing by more than 1.2 degrees since the late 19th century. Australia has experienced its highest annual mean temperature in 2019 and its warmest spring on record in 2020.
The City of London is looking at using under-used spaces in this year's Winter Response Program to address the issue of homelessness in the colder months. Civic administration is proposing a three-part approach for the 2021 to 2022 response, ...
KINGSTON — When she lost her bid for re-election as Kingston mayor in 2003, Isabel Turner said she was excited to have more time to spend with her family. Eighteen years later, surrounded by her family, Turner died peacefully on Tuesday evening at ...
Cities countrywide were rocked by protests, strikes and civil disobedience on Wednesday, as Sudanese challenged the military's seizure of power, a step that's thrown the North African nation's democratic transition into chaos two years after long-time ...
MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - Six Wisconsin counties saw enough of a drop in COVID-19 virus cases to be downgraded in the latest weekly report from the state Department of Health Services. This week the DHS says virus activity is “critically high” in 4 ...
People are now eligible for the Moderna booster six months after completion of their original series – as is already the case for the third Pfizer shot. The authorization made all Johnson & Johnson vaccine recipients eligible for a second shot two months ...
River Road, Fanshawe courses to have trailers by Dec. 1 for those with no place to stay if approved by council. Kate Dubinski · CBC News · Posted: Oct 27, 2021 12:56 PM ET | Last Updated: 2 hours ago. Dozens of people live inside makeshift homes on ...
During debate about the new official plan, Riley Brockington aimed to leave 445 hectares, mainly owned by the Algonquins of Ontario and their development partner Taggart Group, outside the urban boundary for future development. His motion failed in a 15-to ...
Ottawa's Confederation light rail line should be fully up and running again by mid-December, roughly three months after it was shut down when a train derailed, according to the city. In a Tuesday memo to council and transit commission, city manager ...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's new cabinet gave a Hamilton-area MP a new post which carried a big spotlight amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Filomena Tassi, re-elected in Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas, is saying goodbye as Canada's labour minister and ...
MONTREAL -- A pedestrian has died after he was struck by a STM bus Monday night in the Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension borough, Montreal police say. Around 11 p.m. police received a 911 call about a collision between a man and a bus near the ...
It was the 10th Regina homicide reported in 2021. Saskatoon police initially arrested Bodechon in connection with an armed robbery that happened on Oct. 22. During the investigation they found that the suspect was wanted by ...
Other data from the health unit, which serves Peterborough, Peterborough County, Hiawatha First Nation and Curve Lake First Nation: Cumulative confirmed cases: 1,894 since the pandemic was declared in March 2020.
The Saskatoon Police Service said its investigation into an armed robbery at a business in the 2600 block of Broadway Ave. led officers to a home on Rita Crescent in Sutherland on Monday, where they believed Bodechon was.
With the debt ceiling deadline set for early December, some prominent politicians are drafting ideas to reform or end the borrowing limit ahead of a possible crisis. President Joe Biden's Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, last month said she would ...
Forecasters say the primary threat will be damaging straight-line winds and isolated tornadoes. With a 100% coverage of rain predicted and up to 1.5 inches of rain possible, the line of thunderstorms associated with ...
Washington — An international operation on a clandestine part of the internet called the dark web has led to about 150 arrests in the US and Europe and the seizure of drugs, cash and guns, US and European authorities said on Tuesday.
Law enforcement agencies on three continents have disrupted a global drug trafficking operation on the dark web, resulting in the arrests of more than 150 people and the seizure of $31.6 million in cash and virtual currencies and substantial quantities ...
A senior official of the African Union Commission Tuesday urged European Union member countries against a policy of not accepting COVID-19 vaccine certificates from the continent. Speaking at the opening of a meeting of foreign affairs ...
A 30-year-old Thompson man was shot and seriously injured by an RCMP officer on Monday afternoon in an incident that was caught on video and is circulating on social media. Police were serving legal documents at a home on Princeton Drive at about 2:45 ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan late Monday stepped back from a threat to expel the ambassadors of 10 Western nations over their support for a jailed activist, defusing a potential diplomatic crisis. “We believe that these ambassadors, ...
Crowds protested into the night in Sudan Monday to denounce a military coup, with chaos engulfing the capital Khartoum after soldiers opened fire on demonstrators and reportedly killed three people. Sudan's top general declared a state of emergency and ...
Long-term care was in trouble long before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020, making thousands of residents and staff ill and killing hundreds, including 46 seniors in Kawartha Lakes. Over the last year, groups like the Kawartha Lakes Health ...