Home may

may

1279 Articles
WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Ontario to (finally) pull the plug on fax machines in public service

For the generation comfortable communicating using only emojis or through TikTok videos, it’s a baffling sight still found in many offices: a bulky...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

CP Rail leaves mountain train parked without crew or handbrakes near site of deadly 2019 runaway crash

WARNING: This story contains language that some readers may find offensive. Canadian Pacific Railway is under fire after leaving a 2.5-kilometre-long grain train...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Ontario’s 3rd wave of COVID-19 could hit younger adults harder. Here’s why

In Scarborough, the east-end Toronto area that’s been hit hard by the pandemic, Dr. Lisa Salamon was shocked by the impact of COVID-19...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Dramatic rise in reports of sexual assaults doesn’t lead to similar rise in charges

Reports of sexual assault to police are up significantly across the country, especially on P.E.I. where they have more than doubled in the past...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Genetic genealogy pushes Toronto detectives close to identifying killer in 2 cold cases from 1983

Detectives with the Toronto Police Service say they are close to identifying the killer responsible for two cold cases from 1983. They have...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

People are celebrating their COVID-19 vaccine shots with selfies. Some think it’s time to give it a rest

Initially, Dr. Alan Drummond welcomed the idea of the so-called vaccine selfie — people sharing their COVID-19 vaccination pictures on social media — as a celebration and...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

How masks could affect speech and language development in children

A video of a one-year-old walking up to random objects, pressing on them and rubbing her hands together as she walks away went...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

How the COVID-19 pandemic turned an empty Yellowknife motel into a hub of support

In March 2020, before the pandemic hit, a rust-coloured former motel near Yellowknife’s downtown sat fully furnished and empty, while elsewhere in the city, people experiencing...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Senate’s new harassment policy ‘a gift’ for would-be abusers, senator says

The Senate’s new harassment policy is “a gift” for would-be harassers because it creates a culture of secrecy that will shield wayward senators...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Rogers-Shaw merger offers chance for Ottawa to insist on better deal for cellphone customers

Before the days of COVID-19 vaccine delays, there were few things Canadians liked to complain about more than the high cost of their...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

How a client-therapist relationship left one Nova Scotian feeling more hurt than healed

Taron expected the counsellor would offer help to recover from complex post-traumatic stress disorder.  Instead, more than four years after the first therapy...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Rogers fines 91-year-old woman unable to return equipment due to lockdown

The family of a 91-year-old woman is outraged Rogers had demanded she pay hundreds of dollars for failing to return phone and internet...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

N.L. government won’t release COVID-19 modelling that Furey said justified election call

The Newfoundland and Labrador government is refusing to disclose COVID-19 modelling that Liberal Leader Andrew Furey said helped justify his decision to call...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Military conducted secret investigation of reservist Patrik Mathews as a possible terrorist threat

The military’s counter-intelligence unit secretly investigated Patrik Mathews — a former Manitoba army reservist and alleged recruiter for a neo-Nazi group — as a possible terrorist...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

From restaurant staff to pilots, pandemic is pushing people in hard-hit professions to retrain for new jobs

When COVID-19 hit, Ryan Sullivan was a pilot for Porter Airlines and he loved his job. These days, though, he spends his days...

WowPlus
Canadian Celebrities

Former soldier expected to plead guilty in high-profile sexual assault involving subordinate

One of the highest-profile sexual assault cases involving the Canadian military may finally be at its end following years of legal battles after the...