The City of Toronto has issued an emergency contract to a construction company to retrieve a boring machine that’s been stuck underground in the west end for nine months after it became tangled in steel wires.
Continue reading...March 4, 2023
Texas congressman who broke with GOP is censured
FILE – Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, center, accompanied by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left, and House Republican Conference chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., right, speaks at a news conference on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, July 29, 2021. Gonzales is facing...
Continue reading...Canada’s chief of the defence staff makes trip to Ukrainian capital
The Department of National Defence says Canada’s top soldier has just wrapped up a visit to Ukraine’s capital.
Continue reading...SNAP boosts kept millions out of poverty during Covid. Now they’re gone.
Volunteers sort foods at Tri-City Baptist Food Bank in Westminster, Colorado on Tuesday, February 28, 2023. | Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post Supplements to the program ended on March 1. Without an off-ramp, people are scrambling to fill the gap. While food prices remain stubbornly high due...
Continue reading...Fiery Maryland tanker crash kills driver, homes engulfed in flames
NBC’s Marissa Parra reports on the tanker truck that overturned on a Maryland highway in a fiery crash, killing the driver, and says that a family has been displaced due to damages from the smoke.
Continue reading...Canadian rover helping in global search for frozen water on dark side of the moon
The Canadian lunar rover could soon help reveal the moon’s dark side. The country’s first moon rover is set to put the Canadian Space Agency at the forefront of space exploration, helping in the global search for frozen water on the celestial body.
Continue reading...Hong Kong court convicts activists behind Tiananmen vigil
FILE – Chow Hang-tung, vice chairwoman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong on Sept. 5, 2021. Three Hong Kong activists, including Chow, from the now-defunct group that organized annual vigils commemorating...
Continue reading...IN PHOTOS: Up to 30 centimetres of snow falls on southern Ontario
Southern Ontario residents are digging out after a winter storm dropped up to 30 centimetres of snow on the ground overnight.
Continue reading...Election conspiracies fuel dispute over voter fraud system
FILE – A poll worker, center left, speaks through a plastic barrier while assisting a voter in a polling station at Marshfield High School, Nov. 3, 2020, in Marshfield, Mass. A bipartisan effort among states to combat voter fraud has found itself in the crosshairs of...
Continue reading...Bannon calls Murdochs ‘a bunch of foreigners’ after Fox News founder said he doubted election claims
Former presidential advisor Steve Bannon was critical of the Murdoch family in his speech at CPAC after court documents showed that News Corp. Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch said that he didn’t see evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. New York Times political reporter...
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