Defence lawyers cross-examining the complainant in the sexual assault trial of five ex-members of Canada’s world junior hockey team today in London, Ont. Source link
Explosions and fires rocked Sudan’s wartime capital Port Sudan on Tuesday, a witness said, part of a days-long drone assault that has torched the country’s biggest fuel depots and damaged its primary gateway for humanitarian aid. The strikes included an unmanned aerial vehicle attack by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Port Sudan facilities,…
Percival Everett’s novel James, his radical re-imagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the enslaved title character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Purpose, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family destroying itself from within, won for drama. The latter also earned six Tony Award nominations last week. Everett’s Pulitzer confirmed…
The Competition Bureau says it is taking Canada’s Wonderland to court because it alleges the company that runs the amusement and water park north of Toronto engages in “deceptive marketing practices.” In a news release on Monday, the bureau accuses Canada’s Wonderland Company of “drip pricing,” a practice in which a company advertises “lower prices than what consumers…
The Jets and Blues likely woke up Monday with aching muscles and bruised bodies after an opening-round NHL playoff series filled with punishing hits. Winnipeg’s players had their pains eased, though, by an epic 4-3 double-overtime victory Sunday night in Game 7 after captain Adam Lowry scored at 16:10. The Jets host the Dallas Stars…
Assistant Crown attorney Meaghan Cunningham asks E.M. about the consensual sex with McLeod. She says she performed oral sex on him and they had vaginal intercourse. After that, she went to the bathroom and McLeod got dressed right away, which she thought was strange. McLeod was on his phone; she assumed he was texting. She…
Brazilian police said on Sunday that they had thwarted a bomb attack planned for Lady Gaga’s historic concert that drew more than two million people to Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro state, working in co-ordination with the Justice Ministry, said the plot was orchestrated by a group promoting…
Premier-designate John Hogan says he is looking to continue the work of former premier Andrew Furey as he heads into the role this week. The Liberal Party elected Hogan as its new leader on Saturday and will become the province’s 15th premier. But he will have to prove to voters over why he should and stay…
Four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka claimed her first WTA title since triumphing at the 2021 Australian Open, and on her seemingly worst surface. Osaka beat Kaja Juvan 6-1, 7-5 Sunday in France to win L’Open 35 de Saint-Malo, a WTA 125 tournament, and secure her first ever trophy on clay. It was also the…
As the search for two missing Pictou County children enters its third day, the RCMP officer overseeing the search efforts says foggy conditions Sunday both help and hinder their work. Lily Sullivan, 6, and Jack Sullivan, 4, were last seen Friday on Gairloch Road in Lansdowne Station, about 20 kilometres southwest of New Glasgow, N.S….