After fierce 23-game run, Canadian Jeopardy! champ Mattea Roach loses by $1
In the end, it was a single dollar and a clue about two American mayors that ended Canadian Jeopardy! champ Mattea Roach’s impressive 23-game streak. On Friday, Roach lost her 24th game by $1 to Danielle Maurer, a digital marketing manager from Georgia, after being stumped by Final Jeopardy. Roach ended the game with $15,599, while Maurer — […]
Chaguanas businessman killed while on video call to children
News Laurel V Williams 3 Hrs Ago Businessman Darryl Dindial, owner of Dindial’s auto spplies along Caparo / Brasso road Montrose Chaguanas was shot and killed on Thursday outside his businessplace during a robbery – Chaguanas businessman Darryl Dindial was on his cellphone talking to his two young children on Thursday night when gunmen shot […]
Sandbagging continues in flood-ravaged Peguis First Nation, as evacuee count nears 1,600
Angie Flett is frantically trying to save her 86-year-old auntie’s house. Volunteers piled sandbags in front of the elder’s home on Peguis First Nation, in Manitoba’s Interlake region, on Friday — even though the floodwaters were already lapping against the home’s foundation. “She woke up Sunday morning, she said she was surrounded by a lake,” said Flett. Her […]
Discipline, punishment not the same
News Rhianna Mc Kenzie 2 Hrs Ago San Fernando Central Secondary School students. FILE PHOTO – Counselling psychologist Sonji Harris-Guppy has said Caribbean parents need to understand the distinction between discipling and punishment. Harris-Guppy was speaking during a panel discussion on Thursday hosted by the Faculty of Law, UWI, on Child Abuse or Discipline: An […]
‘Canada benefits from families like yours,’ Justin Trudeau tells Afghan refugees in Hamilton
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Hamilton on Friday to meet some of the families who are among the over 400 Afghan refugees who have resettled in the Ontario city. Trudeau and his son Xavier visited the Eastern Food Market on Upper Wentworth Street, where Hamilton Mountain MP Lisa Hepfner introduced the prime minister to two families. Trudeau met with Ahmad […]
Education Division to give daily covid19 numbers for Tobago schools
News Corey Connelly 2 Hrs Ago File photo: Signal Hill Secondary students get their temperature checked by security at the school compound. Photo by David Reid As of Tuesday, a total of 19 students and three teachers have contracted covid19 in Tobago since the full reopening of schools in April. This was revealed on Friday […]
Gas prices hit record highs across the country
Canadians in most parts of the country are waking up to higher gas prices today, with prices either above $2 a litre or creeping close to that benchmark. According to Gas Wizard, a site that tracks gas prices across Canada, prices have jumped by four to six cents in many urban centres across the country. In Vancouver, […]
Restructuring talks continue between TSTT, CWU
News Sean Douglas 8 Minutes Ago Communication Workers Union union leader Clyde Elder TALKS on proposed restructuring are still ongoing between TSTT and the Communication Workers Union (CWU), union leader Clyde Elder has confirmed. TSTT has been in the public spotlight recently after a recent spate of thefts of copper cables but had previously garnered […]
Hundreds attend Whitehorse march honouring MMIWG2S+ on Red Dress Day
Michele Thompson never had the chance to meet her aunt, Barbara Jack. Jack was 14 when she disappeared after running away from her foster home in Whitehorse, where she was also forced to attend residential school. It was 1974. Her remains were found on Grey Mountain a year later. “She was really young when she […]
Acting CoP Jacob urges all hands on deck
News Shane Superville 4 Minutes Ago Acting Police Commissioner McDonald Jacob speaks during a town hall meeting at the St Joseph community centre on Thursday evening. Photo by Shane Superville Acting Police Commissioner McDonald Jacob has urged the public and community institutions to join forces with the police in tackling the root causes of crime, […]
This 96-year-old has been singing to hospital patients for 30 years
If you’ve seen a 96-year-old man lugging a guitar or belting out a tune in Toronto hospitals, it was probably George Linton. For the past three decades, the former journalist from Toronto has been volunteering his time to sing to patients and hospital staff in need of a pick-me-up. Last month, the Governor General awarded him the Sovereigns’ Medal for Volunteers to […]
They could have spared my mother
News Elizabeth Gonzales 10 Minutes Ago Relatives of Alex Jagassar leave the Forensics Science Centre in St James on Thursday afternoon. Jagassar was killed by two masked gunmen in Diego Martin earlier that day. – JEFF K MAYERS Norva Le Maitre would easily have forgiven the gunmen who killed her after they chased and killed […]