Sports fans across Ontario may soon be able to have a drink outside their favourite sports venues. With the Maple Leafs gearing up for the playoffs and the Raptors soon to follow suit, the Ontario government is considering an amendment that would allow tailgate parties to be held outside sports...
A neurosurgeon accused of killing his physician wife has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in her death. Mohammed Shamji had been charged with first-degree murder in the 2016 death of Elana Fric-Shamji, the mother of his three children and wife of 12 years. He entered his guilty plea at a Toronto...
A lawyer representing Manitoba says a “Star Trek” fan wasn’t allowed to keep his personalized ASIMIL8 licence plate because the word cannot be dissociated from the history of forced assimilation of Indigenous people in the province. Manitoba Justice lawyer Charles Murray told court Monday that licence plates are owned...
The Canadian Surface Combatant contract was signed Thursday by the Liberal government. The contact with Irving and the Lockheed Martin-BAE consortium was negotiated in near record time. The signing of the contract will be announced by Procurement Minister Carla Qualtrough at the Irving yard in Halifax on Friday. That $60 billion...
A book once owned by Adolf Hitler provides a chilling look at what may have been his interest in extending the "Final Solution" to North America. The book was written by a Nazi researcher who spent time in the US before the outbreak of World War Two. It has been acquired...
TD Bank has stopped running online advertisements that use the word "desi" to target the South Asian community after at least one person complained about the ads. Jatin Patel demanded the bank take the ads down after he saw one of them while scrolling through an Indian news app. "At...
A Calgary police spokesperson says a woman in her 40s is facing several charges after a Victoria-bound flight had to be diverted to Calgary Thursday night. Corbin Odland with Calgary Police says they were called around 11:30 p.m. to the Calgary Airport for an unruly passenger, whose actions escalated quickly...
A charge of sexual assault and another charge of voyeurism have been laid against a constable from the RCMP’s Meteghan Detachment. The province’s independent Serious Incident Response Team (SiRT) laid the charges against Const. Yannick Frechette, 27, following an investigation of an incident alleged to have occurred at a party...
Olivia was the most popular girls’ name in the province in 2018, while Liam took the top spot for boys. Overall, the province says 50,104 babies were born last year; 25,717 of those were boys, while 24,387 were girls. Liam knocked Noah out of the top spot as most popular in...
The Kamloops RCMP is requesting that a local woman who is watching a six-year-old boy make contact with them after the child's mother has gone two days without hearing from them. Roseanne Supernault, 28, has been watching her nephew Nikaeo Supernault. Police received a report to check on his well-being...