The Canadian PressAllison JonesShawn Jeffords TORONTO–Ontario’s striking college faculty have voted to reject a contract offer and continue their nearly five-week job action. The 12,000 college professors, instructors, counsellors, and librarians have been off the job since Oct. 15, leaving some 500,000 students out of class. Talks between the colleges […]
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The Canadian Press SIMCOE, Ont.–Police are reminding people to be vigilant about locking their doors after a homeowner in Simcoe, Ont. came home to discover a drunken stranger. The OPP said they were called by an alarmed homeowner just before 11 p.m. on Tuesday after arriving home and discovering the […]
By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press CHICAGO — An increase in suicide rates among U.S. teens occurred at the same time social media use surged and a new analysis suggests there may be a link. Suicide rates for teens rose between 2010 and 2015 after they had declined for nearly […]
The Canadian Press COCHRANE, Alta.–A wildlife biologist says a young injured black bear that has been wandering alone west of Calgary for weeks has not built up enough body fat or grown a thick enough fur undercoat to survive the winter without help. The small bruin was spotted hobbling in […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–One of the country’s biggest civil service unions is calling on the Trudeau Liberals to completely scrap the problem-plagued civil service pay system known as Phoenix and start over from scratch. The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada says, after nearly two years of promises […]
The Canadian PressLaura Kane VANCOUVER–John Simpson is determined to use the novel experience he gained in a troubling search for his daughter to help others who have lost loved ones. Ashley Simpson went missing in Salmon Arm, B.C. in April, 2016, and this spring her father travelled there from Ontario […]
The Canadian Press PENDER ISLAND, B.C.–A battle over beavers is brewing on South Pender Island, B.C., where residents are vowing to save the animals from euthanasia. The beavers have been building their own dams in Greenburn Lake, threatening an earthen dam constructed on part of the Gulf Island National Park […]
The Canadian PressPaola Loriggio TORONTO–Ontario’s colleges and the union representing striking faculty members are accusing each other of spreading misinformation ahead of a contract vote in the labour dispute that has left half-a-million students out of class for a month. Some 12,000 Ontario college professors, instructors, counsellors, and librarians haven’t […]
The Associated Press MANILA, Philippines — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he raised concerns about human rights and extrajudicial killings in the Philippines when he met Tuesday with President Rodrigo Duterte, whose war on drugs has earned widespread condemnation for leaving thousands of suspects dead. Trudeau told a news […]
By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. — Women are less likely than men to get CPR from a bystander and more likely to die, a new study suggests, and researchers think reluctance to touch a woman’s chest might be one reason. Only 39 per cent of women suffering […]
By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. — New guidelines lower the threshold for high blood pressure, adding 30 million Americans to those who have the condition, which now plagues nearly half of U.S. adults. High pressure, which for decades has been a top reading of at least 140 […]
The Canadian Press MONTREAL–A Montreal man said he and other residents were shocked and saddened after a war memorial was defaced with graffiti on Remembrance Day. Berj Merdjanian said he saw the lettering early Saturday morning when he went to work at his photo studio in the city’s Saint-Laurent borough. […]
