Новости за 14.04.2024

With the Indiana Fever expected to draft Caitlin Clark with the No. 1 overall pick in Monday night's WNBA draft, the excitement over seeing the potential of a game-changing player suddenly making the Fever relevant again after a seven-year playoff drought is endless.

A citizen's group opposed to burying Canada's stockpile of spent nuclear fuel half a kilometre below a southwestern Ontario farm town is demanding a paper ballot in an upcoming referendum on whether it should welcome radioactive waste.

For Gary Kent, the heyday of rum-running in the province isn't just history from 100 years ago, but part of the cherished memories passed down to him by his father.

The number of students who are chronically absent at Hamilton’s public and Catholic elementary schools has been on the rise since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Food Hall TO was originally a city-led program intended to support low-income Torontonians start their own food business. That program failed, so Feed Scarborough took it over as a teaching kitchen for refugees and new Canadians

The tiny creature — discovered when it was days old — was rescued by a family who thought it was a puppy. It was briefly nursed by a Chihuahua before becoming a crowd favourite at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve.

RVs — along with boats, ATVs and other outdoor vehicles — sold like hotcakes during the pandemic as people poured their vacation funds into goods that could be enjoyed closer to home. But now the sector is going through a market correction, with sales down around 20 per cent last year.

The Sympathizer, adapted from the book of the same name, tells the story of a double agent working during the Vietnam War. Its co-creator, Canadian Don McKellar, says it was a rewarding but challenging exercise in throwing away preconceived notions.

Four of the five countries that lost citizens in the strike on the World Central Kitchen convoy in Gaza on April 1 have indicated they don't accept the initial Israeli report on those events, released on April 5. The only country that hasn't responded yet is Canada.

The documentary What Jennifer Did explores the life of Jennifer Pan and the complicated series of events that led to hitmen killing her mother and severely wounding her father in Markham, Ont., in a case that was granted a new trial last year.

People living in small towns — from business workers to local paramedics — hope that spreading awareness can also help dispel the stigma of drug use and hopefully avoid a worst-case scenario, like the crisis in Belleville, Ont., that left 23 people dead in just 48 hours last year.