As Montrealers continue to deal with icy sidewalks, Mayor Valerie Plante has demanded all Montreal borough mayors execute better snow and ice removal. The city is launching its latest snow removal operation on Wednesday, and Plante told the boroughs Montrealers expect quality. “My expectations are very high and I will not accept inadequate execution under any circumstances, because Montrealers expect […]

Several world leaders seemed to have a message to deliver to President Trump as they spoke out against protectionism and populism. World leaders have issued a defence of globalisation and multilateralism at the World Economic Forum in Davos – all apparently aimed at a particular guest. But the politics of Davos go beyond Trump. The spotlight also fell on the […]

Halifax Regional Police are investigating a break-in and robbery that occurred at a Halifax pharmacy on Tuesday. Police say that early in the morning, officers were called to the Guardian Pharmacy located at 535 Larry Uteck Blvd. According to police, multiple suspects had allegedly forced their way into the pharmacy and caused damage to the interior of the building as […]

Governor Tom Wolfe has declared a state of emergency over the opioid epidemic – making Pennsylvania the eighth state to invoke a state of emergency. In the United States, new measures have been implemented to target the smuggling of the deadly synthetic drug fentanyl. It’s one of several opioids behind a nationwide epidemic of drug abuse. Pennsylvania is the latest […]

Health officials have issued a frostbite alert for the Peterborough area on Wednesday. Peterborough Public Health on Wednesday issued a third frostbite alert of the season as temperatures with the windchill are expected to drop to -29 on Wednesday evening and continuing until Thursday afternoon. The health unit is advising residents to take precautions since exposed skin can freeze in […]

The UN says the situation will worsen unless it receives $1.6bn in extra funds. The United Nations says more than half of Somalia’s population is in need of emergency aid due to a major drought and worsening conflict. Millions have been forced from their homes and hundreds of thousands of children have been left malnourished. The UN says the situation […]

By 2050 the number of Muslims is projected to reach 8.1 million, or 2.1 percent, of the total US population. Muslims are expected to become the second-largest religious group in the United States after Christians by 2040, according to a new report.  There were 3.45 millions Muslims living in the US in 2017 representing about 1.1 percent of the total population, […]

Ocean Infinity survey company launches underwater probe in hope of solving the world’s greatest aviation mystery. A new attempt by a private ocean survey company is under way to find the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 nearly four years after it mysteriously disappeared. The vanishing of the commercial aircraft as it flew from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China […]

Scientists in the US have developed a universal blood test capable of detecting eight different types of cancer. The aim of the test, CancerSEEK, is to catch the disease early and save lives. Scientists at John Hopkins University in Baltimore analysed more than 1,000 cancer patients who had shown symptoms of cancer, to see whether this new test would accurately […]

Rights advocates and health experts say Trump has ‘attacked’ reproductive rights during his first year in office. It was one year ago that millions of women worldwide marched against newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump. The marches were meant to send a message to Trump after a presidential election that “insulted, demonised and threatened” women, immigrants and those from the […]