Duane Hicks Tim Hortons’ customers will experience some disruption to their daily routine for the next two weeks. For the first time since it first opened on Sept. 1, 2003, the King’s Highway business is undergoing renovations. “It’s an inside/outside reno,” noted owner Gord McQuarrie “They’re refinishing the outside of […]
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The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Peter MacKay has decided against joining the Conservative leadership race. “After much soul-searching, advice from trusted friends, and weighing of the impact on my young family, I have decided not to seek the leadership of the party,” the former cabinet minister from Nova Scotia said in a […]
The Canadian Press VANCOUVER—The youngest royal will arrive in British Columbia later this month for her first international appearance alongside her brother and parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Princess Charlotte will be 16 months old when she and three-year-old Prince George begin a week-long trip starting Sept. 24 […]
The Canadian PressBob Weber The second ship from Sir John Franklin’s doomed 19th-century search for the Northwest Passage has been located—right where an Inuit hunter said it would be. “The ship is in remarkable condition,” Adrian Schimnowski of the Arctic Research Foundation, one of the groups involved in the search, […]
Staff Work on Colonization Road East will take about 10 days longer than expected, with the whole project now expected to be done the first week of October. Contractor Makkinga Contracting & Equipment Rentals currently is installing the storm sewer at the end of Fifth Street East and putting in […]
The Canadian PressMelissa Couto TORONTO—Roberto Osuna and Russell Martin both thought Steven Souza Jr.’s deep fly ball in the ninth inning was hit out of the park. Ezequiel Carrera thought his own an inning earlier would hook foul. Luckily for the Blue Jays, all three were wrong. Carrera hit a […]
The Associated PressJon Krawczynski CHASKA, Mn.—When Davis Love III and the U.S. Ryder Cup team come to Hazeltine at the end of the month, they’ll be looking to avoid an unprecedented fourth-straight defeat to the Europeans. The U.S. has spent two years planning and strategizing in hopes of turning the […]
By Tom Coyne The Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Democrats and Republicans are both to blame for the fighting that occurs when a president nominates someone to the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Monday. She told a crowd of about 7,100 people at the University of […]
The Associated Press KRALENDIJK, Bonaire — Vast coral reefs surrounding this island are considered by many experts to be the healthiest and best-protected in the Caribbean, and that makes Bonaire an ideal spot to test whether 3D printing technology can help preserve these vital marine habitats around the world. A […]
The Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Conservationists say they have transferred more than 200 of the nearly extinct Royal Turtles to a new purpose-built breeding and conservation centre, easing fears the rare species will disappear in Cambodia. In a statement Tuesday, the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society said 206 […]
The Associated Press BROOKLINE, N.H. — After waiting 11 years to marry her groom, a flat tire wasn’t going to stop a determined New Hampshire bride from walking down the aisle on her special day. With her limo rendered inoperable along an infrequently travelled road in Brookline, Angelique Arsenault stuck […]
By Abdi Guled The Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia on Tuesday was hosting its first regional summit of African heads of state in 30 years, a source of pride in this Horn of Africa country after years of chaos and deadly attacks by al-Shabab extremists. Security measures were high […]
