As the new town council wraps up its first year serving the community, Mayor June Caul shared some highlights from 2019. “This was a very busy and successful year,” she said. One of the largest efforts undertaken by town council since taking office was its work to restart the idle […]
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The Canadian PressChristopher Reynolds The workers in charge of refuelling planes at Montreal’s Trudeau and Mirabel airports could walk off the job on New Year’s Day, threatening to disrupt the busy holiday travel season. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said Saturday its members have voted 99 per […]
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low of -15 C (5 F). For New Year’s Day we’ll see cloudy skies with a chance of flurries throughout the day and overnight with a high of minus-seven (19) and a low of minus-eight (18). Thursday will continue with a chance of […]
Tonight will see periods of snow with up to 4 cm of accumulation and a low of -14 C (7 F). Tomorrow will be mainly sunny with cloudy periods overnight, bringing a high of minus-eight (18) and a low of -13 (nine). New Year’s Day will be cloudy with a […]
The Canadian PressMarc Delbes MONTREAL — Mikael Kingsbury is truly a dominant force. Kingsbury has nine wins in 11 World Cup starts the past two years. And the native of Deux Montagnes, Que., whose career average surpasses one victory for every two events (63 wins in 114 starts), shows no […]
The Canadian PressJim Bronskill OTTAWA — RCMP intelligence officials devised a secret Cold War plan to use a hidden briefcase camera to photograph Communists and Soviet Bloc personnel travelling through Toronto’s airport, declassified records show. The idea of snapping surreptitious images developed in late November 1964 when a member of […]
Volunteers served up plates with all the fixin’s to people who turned out to the Christmas Dinner held at Knox United Church from noon until 2 p.m. on Christmas Day. The event also continued the tradition of sending out meals on wheels to those who were unable to attend the […]
The Associated PressMike Stobbe NEW YORK — This year, the germs roared back. Measles tripled. Hepatitis A mushroomed. A rare but deadly mosquito-borne disease increased. And that was just the United States. Globally, there was an explosion of measles in many countries, an unrelenting Ebola outbreak in Africa and a […]
The Canadian PressJoshua Clipperton OSTRAVA, Czech Republic — Alexis Lafreniere’s knee injury will keep him out of Canada’s next game at the world junior hockey championship, but the star winger hasn’t been ruled out for the rest of the tournament. The 18-year-old was helped off the ice early in the […]
The Canadian Press OSTRAVA, Czech Republic — Canadian forward Joe Veleno was suspended for one game of the world junior championship on Sunday by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Veleno is being punished for an incident in the second period of Canada’s 6-0 loss to Russia on Saturday. After Veleno […]
The Canadian PressJordan Press OTTAWA — An annual review of how well the government interacts with Canadians as they access federal benefits suggests more people would turn to online channels, if there was a human around to help them out. The report found that nearly half of people who could […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO — A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed against medical services company LifeLabs over a data breach that allowed hackers to access the personal information of up to 15 million customers. In an unproven statement of claim filed in Ontario Superior Court on Dec. 27, […]
