The Canadian PressRob Drinkwater EDMONTON—An official with the Canadian Mental Health Association is hoping strange, human-shaped figures that were placed on an Edmonton bridge’s controversial suicide prevention barriers spark a discussion about mental health. But Ione Challborn said the message the sculptures sent is confusing, and since there’s no word […]
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The Canadian Press GRANBY, Que.—A lion at Quebec’s Granby Zoo attacked an employee yesterday, fracturing her backbone, the head of the facility said. The woman, in her early 20s, was in hospital in stable condition but zoo director Paul Gosselin called her injuries “severe.” He said the zoo is still […]
The Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C.—Roughly five percent of North Carolina’s magistrates are refusing to marry same-sex couples for religious reasons, and lawyers for the state say people suing in federal court have no standing to challenge these opt-outs as unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn scheduled a hearing for today […]
The Associated PressMark Hughes MUSKOGEE, Okla.—Muskogee’s War Memorial Park can now properly display the bell of America’s most famous World War II submarine, the USS Batfish. In November 2015, sailors from Central Naval Center for Navy Aviation Technical Training detachment visited Muskogee’s War Memorial Park and saw the sub’s bell […]
The Canadian PressKeith Leslie TORONTO—Premier Kathleen Wynne will be taking her chequebook as she embarks on a northern tour amid growing political unrest in the region, including the relaunch of the separatist Northern Ontario Party. Wynne left Saturday on a weeklong visit to schools, hospitals, businesses and First Nations from […]
The Canadian Press Sightings of a shirtless Justin Trudeau are causing something of a stir across Canada and internationally this summer. The prime minister was most recently photographed shirtless while taking a break from surfing and simultaneously photobombing a couple getting married on a Tofino, B.C., beach. A Vancouver Island […]
The Canadian PressRob Drinkwater EDMONTON—Some life-sized human figures made out of clear plastic tape and attached to suicide prevention barriers on an Edmonton bridge puzzled pedestrians, as well as authorities, after they mysteriously appeared yesterday morning. Was it an art project? Were they meant to draw attention to the number […]
By Rob Drinkwater The Canadian Press EDMONTON — Some life-sized human figures made out of clear plastic tape and attached to suicide prevention barriers on an Edmonton bridge puzzled pedestrians, as well as authorities, after they mysteriously appeared on Sunday morning. Was it an art project? Were they meant to […]
By Joan Bryden The Canadian Press OTTAWA — Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould has hired a new legal affairs adviser who once argued that the Supreme Court over-stepped its bounds when it struck down the ban on medically assisted dying. Gregoire Webber is touted as a brilliant and highly respected legal […]
The Associated Press BERLIN—Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler’s day planner reinforces historians’ views of how mass murder was institutionalized and routine in Adolf Hitler’s Germany. Bild newspaper this week has been publishing excerpts from the calendar, which was found in a Russian archive in 2013 and is being prepared for […]
The Associated PressJon Gambrell DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Apparently unaware she could face a death sentence, a British porn actress says she flew to Iran to undergo a nose job and later wrote online about it, immediately sparking a social media outcry in the largely conservative Islamic Republic. The buxom performer, […]
The Associated Press Philadelphia is urging residents not to swim in dumpsters after a rented trash bin was filled with fire hydrant water and transformed into a pool. The online news site Billy Penn first reported the shenanigans at a weekend block party. The party’s organizers told the site they […]
