TORONTO — A new study says that menthol cigarettes recruited an extra 10 million smokers in the U.S. between 1980 and 2018. The findings, published online in the journal Tobacco Control on Thursday, mark a first for a study of this...
WINDSOR, ONT. — A migrant worker advocacy group is raising concerns about the process to get temporary foreign workers vaccinated. The Migrant Rights Network is calling for a series of measures to ensure visitors doing essential work in Canada are protected...
Hyundai will recall 82,000 electric cars globally to replace their batteries after 15 reports of fires involving the vehicles. Despite the relatively small number of cars involved, Hyundai’s recall is one of the most expensive in history, signaling how electric car...
MONTREAL — Montrealers desperately trying to get their elderly parents vaccinated against COVID-19 are facing headaches and calls not going through on the first day registrations opened to the general public. The province announced earlier this week that people aged 85...
BARRIE, ONT. — A school bus carrying 11 children was involved in a three-vehicle collision in Port Carling Thursday morning. Bracebridge OPP says none of the kids were injured in the crash on Muskoka Road 118. They say one driver suffered...
MOSCOW — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been sent to a prison outside Moscow to serve his sentence, his lawyer said Thursday, a move that comes despite a demand by Europe’s top human rights court for his release. Navalny lawyer...
LONDON, ONT. — The Crown has wrapped up its evidence in the alleged abduction case against 68-year-old Lawrence Thompson of London. Retired London Police Det.-Const. Lori-Ann Kirk said she was on duty on May 13, 2018 when a four-year-old girl reported...
MONTREAL — As Quebecers over 85 are now able to sign up for a vaccine, the province reported that 858 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours bringing the overall total to 285,330 since the start...
WASHINGTON — The Democratic-led House is poised to pass a bill that would enshrine LGBTQ protections in the nation’s labour and civil rights laws, a top priority of U.S. President Joe Biden, though the legislation faces an uphill battle in the...
TORONTO — As a full-time pharmacy technician in a busy Toronto hospital, Tim MacFarlane has been on the front lines in the fight against COVID-19. But since February of last year, he’s also been living in his minivan after he became...
