T.J. Beckham has tried to book a driving test in Ontario so many times he’s memorized his 15-digit licence number. The 25-year-old said he checked again Wednesday and the earliest slot available is January 2022. “It’s really frustrating,” he said. The province resumed in-car driving tests on June 14, but the backlog to book a […]
News Narissa Fraser 6 Minutes Ago Photo courtesy Trinidad and Tobago Meteorological Service (TTMS) social media TROPICAL Storm Elsa has been upgraded to a category 1 Hurricane and the Met Office says it is expected to “move quickly across the Windward Islands and southern Leeward Islands (north of Trinidad and Tobago) on Friday.” As a […]
The latest: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to get his second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on Friday. The prime minister’s itinerary shows he’s getting a shot of the Moderna mRNA vaccine at an Ottawa clinic. His wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, got her second dose on Thursday. The Trudeaus got their first doses in […]
T.J. Beckham has tried to book a driving test in Ontario so many times he’s memorized his 15-digit licence number. The 25-year-old said he checked again Wednesday and the earliest slot available is January 2022. “It’s really frustrating,” he said. The province resumed in-car driving tests on June 14, but the backlog to book a […]
News Shane Superville 6 Hrs Ago Wade Mark – Opposition Senator Wade Mark took issue with two incidents in the Parliament earlier this week and accused the government of assaulting democracy through their conduct. In the first incident Mark stood by his protests on the adjournment of Wednesday’s Senate sitting to Monday. The sitting was […]
The Cameco Corporation has reported a forest fire in the vicinity of its Cigar Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan. In a statement, the company said it has evacuated about 230 workers from the mine and roughly 80 people remain on site to keep the facility in a safe state. It said the fire is complicated […]
News Paula Lindo 3 Hrs Ago FILE PHOTO: A box of Sinopharm vaccines. – TT received 5,000 doses of the WHO-approved Sinopharm covid19 vaccines from fellow Caricom member state Antigua and Barbuda on Wednesday. In a release, the Ministry of Foreign and Caricom Affairs said the vaccines were shared by the Government of Antigua and […]
On June 30, in the middle of a heat wave, Samantha Plunz woke up to an unexpected visitor. “I woke up to hearing noises at my bedroom window and I sat up real quick because my bed’s right below the window. And it was like about a foot away from a bear’s face. It was […]
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted July 1, 2021 7:46 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ Toronto Raptors guard Jalen Harris has been “dismissed and disqualified” from the NBA for violating the terms of the NBA/NBPA anti-drug program. The NBA made the announcement on Thursday. Under […]
News Clint Chan Tack 11 Hrs Ago Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi. – ATTORNEY General Faris Al-Rawi rejected claims from the Opposition UNC that the Tobago Island Government Bill, 2021 took them completely by surprise. Pointe-a-Pierre MP David Lee first made this claim during debate in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, on a motion to […]
RCMP are investigating what they’re deeming a suspicious fire at the St. Patrick Co-Cathedral catholic church in Yellowknife. The fire broke out shortly after midnight Thursday. The building sustained minor damage. No one was injured. There have been a number of recent fires at churches throughout Canada following the discovery of what are believed to be […]
At age 11, Landyn Toney already has the strength of his convictions. On July 1, Landyn is walking for six days and 157 km from his house in Valley, N.S., to the Annapolis Valley First Nation. It’s his way of honouring victims and survivors of Canada’s residential schools. “It doesn’t feel right that there were […]
