A Russian prison watchdog has been barred from communicating with alleged British spy Paul Whelan during a cell visit on Friday. Mr Whelan, who was arrested on December 28 and charged with spying, has been moved from solitary confinement to a two-person cell in Moscow’s infamous Lefortovo detention centre. But guards forbid members of the public…
The Toronto Maple Leafs paid tribute to the victims of the van attack in the city’s suburb of North York at the start of Game 6 of their playoff series against the Boston Bruins. The attack killed 10 people and injured 16 on Monday afternoon. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families,…
NEW YORK — Former prime minister Brian Mulroney is joining the board of directors of an American cannabis company. Acreage Holdings, one of the largest vertically integrated cannabis companies in the U.S., says Mulroney will officially become a board member in November, when the company will list in the Canadian Securities Exchange. Watch: Everything you…
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Walmart Canada has been ordered to pay a $20,000 fine for selling contaminated food after a devastating wildfire in northern Alberta two years ago. Some of the charges against Walmart included failing to dispose of food items — including candy, potato chips, beans and condiments — after the Fort McMurray fire…
A Gothenburg court on Monday fined a Swedish student activist for delaying a flight due to expel an Afghan asylum seeker, a scene she broadcast live on Facebook. On July 23, 2018, sociology student Elin Ersson, 21, used her mobile phone to film her one-woman protest on board a Turkish Airlines flight from Sweden’s second…
OTTAWA — SNC-Lavalin warned federal prosecutors last fall about a possible plan to split the company in two, move its offices to the United States and eliminate its Canadian workforce if it didn’t get a deal to avoid criminal prosecution, newly obtained documents show. The documents, part of a PowerPoint presentation obtained by The Canadian…
What is it like to have depression? I can’t speak for anyone else, but for me, it’s an extreme level of sadness. It’s so difficult to get out of bed, and almost impossible to manage day-to-day functioning. It’s constant despair. It wasn’t always like this, but in 2011, I went through a traumatic experience that…
Residents of a Russian town invaded by polar bears have said they are taking children to school by car and patrolling the streets with stun grenades as they wait for bear experts to arrive. Nadezhda Kireyeva, a postal worker in the Arctic military town of Belushya Guba, told The Telegraph that locals have taken precautions against…
Ontario minister Lisa MacLeod called reports that she admitted to breaking a campaign promise “fake news” on Thursday. One day before, MacLeod said the decision to continue Ontario’s basic income pilot project changed after the election because of the “realities of when you’re in government.” That was reported as an admission of breaking the PC’s…
Last December Epic released its own digital games store, and now over three months later it boasts some 85 million players. Fortnite has helped, of course, as has its offering of a free game every two weeks, but most controversially it’s been through its acquisition of exclusives – such as 4A Games’ Metro Exodus –…