There’s great anticipation among Canadian voters about the federal election later this year. It’s well documented that 2018 was not a banner year for Justin Trudeau, and many of the missteps were unforced errors; the India trip, business tax reform and pipelines are all factors that the Conservatives hope will sink the Trudeau government. But, before the Conservatives start moving […]

Jan Schuerlein, a 19-year-old IT worker, is currently being treated as a witness by investigators – but security sources say detectives have sifted through his household rubbish and taken away his technical devices. On Friday, Germany’s government confirmed that personal data and documents belonging to hundreds of politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, had been published online. The data was posted […]

I am NOT wasting time on Brexit: May denies running down the clock amid rumours of EU concessions ahead of vote as she scrambles to win over DUP to ‘change the chemistry’ Theresa May is facing disaster in Commons vote on her Brexit deal next week PM has denied wasting a month by delaying the showdown from December 11 Tory […]

A Hamilton woman in her 40s has been rushed to hospital after a home invasion in the city’s east end. Police were called to a one-storey home at 50 Graham Ave. N. just after midnight. Reports from the scene indicate the victim was being treated for injuries to her head and face. Several suspects, who were reportedly armed, are said […]

BANGKOK/DUBAI (Reuters) – Thailand halted plans on Monday to expel an 18-year-old Saudi woman fleeing her family after she barricaded herself inside an airport hotel to prevent immigration officials putting her on a flight to Kuwait. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun has been at Bangkok’s international airport since Saturday when she arrived on a flight from Kuwait. She has said she fears […]

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Latvia’s president nominated Krisjanis Karins of the center-right New Unity party for the post of prime minister on Monday in the country’s third attempt to form a new government in the wake of a general election in October. The first two candidates put forward by President Raimonds Vejonis, from the populist KPV LV and the anti-corruption New […]

KALINOWKA, Poland (Reuters) – The former Catholic priest of the Polish village of Kalinowka is serving three years in jail for molesting five schoolgirls. But Marta Zezula, a mother whose testimony helped convict him, says the priest’s victims are the ones made to feel guilty. “We are witches … because we have pointed at the priest,” Zezula fumed as she […]

A police officer in Provo, Utah, was killed in the line of duty this weekend. Officer Joseph Shinners was shot in the nearby town of Orem trying to apprehend a fugitive Saturday night, authorities said. Shinners, 29, died at a hospital shortly before midnight, Provo Police Chief Richard Ferguson said at a Sunday news conference. A 3-year veteran of the […]

Toronto paramedics say a woman has been seriously injured after a collision in Etobicoke on Sunday afternoon. Paramedics said they received a call around 3:30 p.m. for reports of a crash near Kipling Avenue and Princess Margaret Boulevard. When authorities arrived on scene, they found two vehicles that had been involved in a crash. A woman in her 30s was […]