At-home maple syrup operations become a spring trend for Thunder Bay neighbours
The sight of Johnny De Bakker boiling gallons of maple sap in his driveway has become an annual event in the Mariday Park neighbourhood in Thunder Bay, Ont. Families with strollers and dogs in tow stop by to peek at the steaming pot resting on a roaring propane burner, while others check inside the sap buckets resting […]
3 bodies found in cargo vessel
News Ken Chee Hing An Hour Ago File photo: A coast guard interceptor vessel and larger patrol boat. Photo by Sureash Cholai THE St Vincent-registered cargo vessel MV Fair Chance has been re-floated with the police and coast guard boarding it via a hole cut in its deck on Easter Monday and finding three bodies […]
Ontario reports 1,301 COVID-19 hospitalizations, 3 more deaths after Easter long weekend
Ontario is reporting 1,301 people hospitalized with COVID-19 on Monday after the province’s pandemic advisory table said late last week that the sixth wave of the virus may have crested, but that the Easter long weekend could change that. The Ministry of Health did not release COVID-19 data on Easter Sunday. Hospitalizations that day reached 1,290, however it’s important to […]
3 deaths, 200 new covid19 cases on Monday
News Narissa Fraser An Hour Ago Image courtesy CDC AFTER no deaths recorded on Sunday, the Ministry of Health reported three covid19 fatalities in its daily 4 pm update on Monday, with 200 new infections. The 200 new cases, reflects samples taken during the period April 15-17 and not in the past 24 hours. Of […]
Sunwing flights delayed, passengers feeling stranded amid network-wide issue
A technical issue has delayed a number of Sunwing Airline flights, stranding some Canadian travellers as the issue hampers check-in and boarding. In a statement Monday, a spokesperson for Sunwing Travel Group said the airline’s systems provider is experiencing a network-wide system issue, affecting carriers globally, including Sunwing flights. Sunwing’s website shows virtually all flights scheduled for […]
Drivers on 3 south taxi routes plan to work despite protest calls
News Ria Chaitram 2 Hrs Ago A passenger enters a taxi in San Fernando. – ANGELO MARCELLE THE call by the TT Taxi Drivers’ Network for transportation workers to stay off the roads on Tuesday in protest of the fuel price hike, will be ignored by some drivers in at least three taxi routes in […]
Self-taught pinball repairman pursues his passion full-time
Corey Cooke’s phone never stops ringing. That’s because those who share his specific set of skills are hard to come by in London, Ont., and surrounding area. And in the past 20 years, he’s built a clientele of at least 200 customers who he sees fairly regularly through his business, London Pinball. It’s a […]
Claxton Bay man drowns at Tyrico bay on Easter Sunday
News Paula Lindo 12 Hrs Ago FILE PHOTO While many turned out to the beaches on Easter Sunday to have fun and be with family and friends, the day ended tragically for the family of a Claxton Bay man who drowned at Tyrico Bay. Police said 42-year-old Naveen Kalloo drowned at approximately 10.30 am. Eyewitnesses […]
Relief in the Rockies: Jasper campaign opens homes, businesses to Ukrainian refugees
When Margarita Oganova awoke to the roar of military planes overhead, she went to her children’s bedrooms to tell them the war had started. Confused as he woke up, her 15-year-old son Arkady thought it was a cruel joke. “We were thinking she was just trying to wake us because of school but it was […]
Chinese national held for growing ganja in school
News Shane Superville 2 Minutes Ago SEIZED: The marijuana plant found growing on a school compound on Monday by police. – ttps BARATARIA police responding to reports of cable theft, came across a marijuana plant growing in a bucket in secondary school on Monday morning. Officers from the North Eastern Division Emergency Response Patrol (ERP) […]
Halifax housing development a blow to years-long fight for conservation, says coalition
A plan to fast-track housing development in an ecologically diverse area teeming with old-growth trees and animal habitats is raising concerns for conservationists who’ve been fighting for years to protect the unspoiled land west of Halifax. The Nova Scotia government announced the Sandy Lake-Sackville River area last month as one of nine locations where development will be […]
Venezuelan shot in Aranguez
News Elizabeth Gonzales 6 Hrs Ago File photo A Venezuelan man was shot in the leg on Sunday morning. Police said Edwardo David Cedeno Lopez, 25, was at his John Dulam Street, Aranguez apartment when he heard a woman he knows calling him from outside. As he opened the door and invited the woman inside, […]