Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday said a Russian missile strike on a nine-story Kyiv apartment building was a sign that more pressure must be applied on Moscow to agree to a…
Month: June 2025
Canada trounces Honduras 6-0 at the 2025 Gold Cup
Tajon Buchanan (Hossein Zohrevand, Wikimedia Commons) Team Canada has won its first game of the 2025 Gold Cup, and they did so in convincing fashion. In a blowout from BC Place in…
CFL Fantasy Start vs. Sit: 4 must-plays and who to avoid in Week 3
Two weeks into CFL Fantasy football play, new faces are coming into view for users. This week’s edition of Start vs. Sit will further highlight several standouts who are emerging into reliable…
A Canada-Israel rift is widening over UN votes and sanctions
Israel’s war with Iran has temporarily delayed a reckoning with some of its main Western allies, but seems unlikely to close what has become a yawning gap between them over its conduct in…
Ontario school bus driver who wore schoolgirl's uniform and had 'Lolita's Line' sign removed from job
A school bus driver who wore a schoolgirl’s uniform while driving a vehicle with a “Lolita’s Line” sign in the window will no longer be working for the York Catholic District School…
Iran's leader rejects call to surrender, saying U.S. intervention would cause 'irreparable damage'
Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday rejected U.S. calls for surrender in the face of blistering Israeli strikes and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause “irreparable damage” to them,…
Denis Shapovalov delivers first round upset in Halle
Denis Shapovalov (Si. Robi, Wikimedia Commons) Denis Shapovalov of Toronto, Ontario delivered an upset in the first round of Halle in Germany on Tuesday. Shapovalov, the 2021 Wimbledon semifinalist, upset the sixth…
Stamps re-sign National LS Jason MacGougan
CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders have re-signed national long snapper Jason MacGougan, the team announced on Tuesday. In another roster move, veteran national long snapper Aaron Crawford has been placed on the…
New EV rebate program in the works, environment minister says
Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin says the federal government will bring back a popular consumer rebate program to help make electric vehicles more affordable. The federal government launched its rebate program — the Incentives for Zero-Emission Vehicles program or iZEV, — in 2019, but it ran out of funding earlier this…
Why more Canadians are landing in emergency departments with cannabis-induced vomiting
Emergency departments are seeing a spike in visits owing to a once unusual, highly unpleasant and, in rare cases, potentially life-threatening side effect of chronic cannabis use: severe bouts of vomiting lasting…