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Mild weather lingered through the first Monday of March as temperatures only dipped to 5 C to start the day under cloudy skies. Pockets of showers pushing through the region will linger into the afternoon and early evening as the mercury makes its way into high single digits. Sunny breaks are likely to return Tuesday […]
Warning: This story contains graphic content. Reader discretion is advised. An Alberta energy servicing company is taking responsibility for a decal bearing its logo beneath a sexually suggestive cartoon appearing to depict teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg. X-Site Energy Services said in a statement posted to its website that it recognizes it’s not enough to […]
Ontario’s Office of the Fire Marshal is investigating a fire at a Burlington apartment building that has sent one person to hospital with serious injuries on Monday night. The Burlington Fire Department rushed to a complex on Nelson Avenue near Lakeshore Road and Maple Avenue shortly after 9 p.m. after reports of smoke on the […]
The Recording Academy officially fired former president and CEO of the Grammy Awards, Deborah Dugan, earlier this week. The decision — made by the organization’s Board of Trustees — comes more than six weeks after Dugan was placed on administrative leave and only five months after she claimed the title of CEO from her predecessor, Neil […]
Nova Scotia’s education minister said on Tuesday that a decision on whether to prohibit international travel for the province’s schools will come in the next 48 hours. Until now, Zach Churchill has said travel companies, parents and school communities are best positioned to make decisions about travel plans for March break. But that may change […]
Editor’s note: In an earlier version of this story, Christie Rose was identified as Christina Rose. This story has been corrected to reflect the correct information. Global News regrets the error. After an Edmonton Police Service drug investigation, an Edmonton couple is facing 49 charges. The investigation was launched in November 2019 and two search […]
New Brunswick’s Green leader has completed a provincial tour and says people want next week’s provincial budget to have integrity and compassion. David Coon says there are a number of things he’ll be looking for when the minority Progressive Conservative government tables its 2020-2021 budget next Tuesday. Coon isn’t saying how he’ll vote, but he […]
When Sharon Lee started university in 2013, she was accompanied by a sense of unease: a niggling feeling she just couldn’t get rid of. She compares it to the concern you feel when you leave the house and can’t remember if you turned off the stove. You walk through the paces that got you out […]
April 7 is the second annual Canadian Transplant Association Green Shirt Day for organ and tissue donation awareness and registration, presented by Vistaprint Corporate Solutions and in partnership with Global News, The Canadian Transplant Association, Canada’s organ and tissue donation community, and The Kidney Foundation of Canada. A look back at Green Shirt Day 2019 […]
The Montebello area of Dartmouth, N.S., once again experienced a minor earthquake on Tuesday — an aftershock from the event that dominated the news on Monday. Earthquakes Canada indicates the aftershock occurred at 12:42 a.m., at a depth of approximately 2 km, measuring 2.6 in magnitude. Halifax Regional Police say they received multiple calls from […]