Raptors Superfan Nav Bhatia Targeted With Racist Tweet. Then The Tweeter Apologized.
By For the Toronto Raptors, this week has been all about turning grim games into winning outcomes. And one Raptors superfan is savouring both his team’s sweet victory Saturday in the Eastern Conference final, and his own positive ending from a racist encounter with a Milwaukee Bucks fan. Nav Bhatia was the target of a racist tweet sent […]
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Manitoba First Nation Children Sexually, Physically Abused: RCMP
WINNIPEG — Two men and a foster mother have been charged following an investigation that police say found at least 17 children who were sexually and physically abused in a Manitoba Indigenous community. “This is absolutely horrific allegations,” Families Minister Heather Stefanson said Thursday. “Certainly, our thoughts and prayers and sympathies go out to all the […]
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John Lennon And Yoko Ono 'Bed-In' 50 Years Ago Celebrated In Montreal Exhibit
MONTREAL — It was 50 years ago today, John and Yoko told the band to play. The week-long bed-in that saw a pyjama-clad John Lennon and Yoko Ono host a parade of journalists, LSD gurus, counterculture luminaries and hangers-on in their Montreal hotel suite kicked off on May 25, 1969, and culminated in the on-site […]
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Scheer Scraps Pledge To Balance Budget In 2 Years, Blames Liberals
VANCOUVER — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the economy has become such a mess under the Liberals that it would take a Conservative government five years to clean it up. He accused the Liberal government of embarking on a “deficit spree” and spending $79.5 billion of previously unbudgeted funds since 2017, adding balancing the budget […]
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Leaked Proud Boys Chats Show Members Plotting Violence At Rallies
The Proud Boys want the public to believe that they’re a “drinking club” who only resort to violence to defend themselves from anti-fascist protesters during political rallies. But in private, these extremists have discussed injuring and even killing their adversaries, plotting tactics and optics for months in order to assert a claim of self-defense should […]
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Jody Wilson-Raybould, Jane Philpott To Announce Their Political Futures On Monday
OTTAWA —Two former Liberal cabinet ministers who resigned over the SNC-Lavalin controversy are set to announce their next moves on Monday. Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott say they’ll announce their political futures at events held at the same time in their ridings. Wilson-Raybould is the independent MP for the B.C. riding of Vancouver Granville and […]
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Canadian Resources Corridor Proposal Gets Boost From Scheer's Support
OTTAWA — The notion of a pan-Canadian corridor dedicated to rail, power lines and pipelines has been around for at least half a century, but it looks like it’s about to get a big publicity boost. Last week, federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer used a major pre-election policy speech to dust off a similar idea. Scheer promised, […]
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13-Year-Old Charged In Alleged Assaults In Saskatoon
SASKATOON — Police in Saskatoon say they have charged a 13-year-old girl in connection with two alleged assaults in a city park, including one that was caught on video. Police say on Monday evening a 33-year-old woman reported being assaulted by a several youths in a playground. Click Here: A bystander filmed the woman being knocked […]
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B.C. Court Rules Province Can’t Regulate Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
VANCOUVER — A court has ruled that British Columbia cannot restrict oil shipments through its borders in a decision that marks a win for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and Alberta’s efforts to get its resources to overseas markets. The province filed a constitutional reference question to the B.C. Court of Appeal that asked whether […]
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Scheer Accuses Trudeau Of Creating Favourable Re-election By Putting Unifor On Media Panel
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the Liberals’ decision to name an anti-Conservative union to a panel that will decide which media outlets receive government funding is the latest example of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “stacking the deck” in his favour to get re-elected in October. Scheer told The Canadian Press today he believes […]
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