A newly surfaced video of the Wheatley, Ont., explosion shows the incredible force of the blast that hit the small town’s core last summer. New video of Wheatley explosionA new video from security camera footage shows the power of the blast in downtown Wheatley last summer. Submitted by John Urban. 0:44A newly surfaced video of the Wheatley, Ont., explosion…Continue Reading
The sign indicating the end of Highway 138 on Quebec’s Lower North Shore is a tourist attraction on its own: every year, it gets covered in stickers and has to be replaced.The sign that marks the end of Highway 138 on Quebec’s Lower North saw a lot of a traffic last summer. It was recently…Continue Reading
Former employees of Eastway Tank Pump & Meter Ltd. have come forward to allege a history of safety lapses at the Ottawa company prior to last Thursday’s explosion that killed six workers and left a seventh critically injured.Smoke billows from Eastway Tank in Ottawa following the fatal explosion on Jan. 13, 2022. Several former employees…Continue Reading
Carhartt, the Michigan-based workwear company, is facing a wave of conservative backlash after its CEO announced that it will keep its vaccination mandate, despite a recent supreme court decision to block a federal mandate that would require businesses with over 100 employees to get vaccinated or take weekly Covid-19 tests.In an email sent to employees…Continue Reading
Every once in a while a player comes along who redefines their position.We’ve seen positionless defensive players, hybrid safety-linebacker types. We’ve seen corners who can play in the slot or happily kick out to the boundary. Over the past decade, we’ve seen the rise of the polar bears, tight ends as adept at mauling fools…Continue Reading
An extraordinary battle pitting New York multimillionaires against their billionaire neighbours is expected to reach fever pitch on Thursday when local politicians in the Hamptons vote on proposals to close an airport in the super-rich enclave.The East Hampton town board is expected to vote in favour of a plan to “deactivate” the local airport that…Continue Reading
As the Omicron variant rips through the US, children are being infected with Covid-19 in record numbers – yet their rate of vaccination has lagged, creating a surge in hospitalizations and undermining in-person schooling.Nearly a million new Covid cases – more than 981,000 – were confirmed in children in the week ending 13 January, a…Continue Reading
On the last Sunday before the 2019 general election, the Sunday Times cast its vote. “Mr Johnson is regarded with some suspicion by voters,” its editorial admitted. “He has an on-off relationship with the truth,” often preferred “bluster to grasp of detail”, and had a “colourful private life more typical of a French president”. Nonetheless,…Continue Reading
Two years to the week after the first COVID-19 cases in this country were confirmed, it’s increasingly clear who the biggest economic winners have been. The tech giants that benefitted from the shift to remote work, such as Amazon and Microsoft, are the most obvious ones, but the list also includes major Wall Street banks…Continue Reading
Dolores hardly recognizes the makeshift camp in northern Mexico where she settled six months ago. In its early days, there were far fewer families, and they all huddled under the roof of a pergola that was situated in the center of Plaza de la República, the main square in the town of Reynosa. Back then,…Continue Reading