Canada

There has been uncertainty in Kingston after Lowe’s announced it would be closing 27 RONA locations across Canada, including one in Kingston. Lowe’s announced that their RONA location on Bath Road will be one of 27 “under-performing” retail stores in Canada to be shuttered by the end of January 2019. READ MORE: MAP: These are […]

More than 700 students pack the auditorium at Upper Canada College to listen to Holocaust survivor 92-year old Dr. Vera Schiff tell her story in a calm, quiet voice. “Hate and intolerance only brings disaster,” said Schiff, her family’s lone survivor. “The only way to survive is to get along and respect one another.” Story […]

Federal funds budgeted for providing services to Canadian war veterans but left unspent at the end of the year may no longer go to waste if an impending NDP motion is passed by Parliament. Story continues below Global News has learned that the NDP will put forward a motion that, if passed, would prohibit the government from […]

Canada Post workers in Scarborough are going on strike starting Sunday afternoon, disrupting mail delivery to eastern parts of the Greater Toronto Area. In a news release, Mike Duquette, president of the Scarborough chapter of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), said that starting at 3 p.m., the York Distribution Centre will be on […]

A vigil was held Sunday afternoon in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce for Nicholas Gibbs, the young man killed by police last August. Mourners gathered in Trenholme Park and walked to the corner of Montclair Avenue and De Maisonneuve Boulevard — the spot where the father of three was shot five times by Montreal police. READ MORE: Family of […]

The majority of residents in northern B.C.’s Old Fort can now begin returning home, a month after their small community was isolated by a landslide. The slide was triggered at the end of September, wiping out power and the only road in and out of the small subdivision south of Fort St. John. READ MORE: […]

An Edmonton family is saying thanks to a pair of Good Samaritans after they helped carry a six-year-old boy, and his wheelchair, home. Matthew Gessner has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair to get around. On Friday, snow blanketed the Edmonton area, making it difficult for Matthew to wheel home from school. Story continues below […]

The union representing Canada Post workers appears to be in for a long strike, as minimal bargaining progress has been made in the past days, according to a senior union official. Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) members have been on a rotating strike since Oct. 22. The group’s demands centre on health and safety concerns, […]

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer announced Saturday that he’s chosen a former local mayor and agricultural entrepreneur to face Quebec MP Maxime Bernier in the 2019 election. Speaking in Saint-Elzear, Que., Scheer named Richard Lehoux, the former president of an association of Quebec municipalities and the town’s longtime mayor, as the candidate in the Beauce riding. […]