Gilles Brassard says he couldn’t stand watching his wife of 50 years deteriorate from the disease. Gilles Brassard speaks to reporters as he arrives for sentencing at the courthouse in Laval on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024.Photo by Graham Hughes /The Canadian Press LAVAL — An 81-year-old Quebec man who says he ended his ailing wife’s … Read more
Gilles Brassard and Therese Brassard-Levesque were married for 50 years Gilles Brassard speaks to reporters as he arrives for sentencing at the courthouse in Laval, Que., on Friday.Photo by Graham Hughes /The Canadian Press An 81-year-old Quebec man who says he ended his ailing wife’s life out of love and compassion was sentenced today to … Read more
‘I charged a large amount of money on my credit card to purchase the diamonds…. I never received any diamonds just excuses. I had to sell my company,’ one of 200 victims tells court Jack Kronis, circa 1991.Photo by Handout Jack Kronis, a prolific career conman and serial fraudster from Toronto, still owes more than … Read more
“Colorama” at Superhouse, Paris Bar at Le Meridien and Telfar’s new Broadway flagship are all on the schedule in this week’s Alexa Calendar. Images: Courtesy of Paris Bar; Courtesy of Superhouse Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC. It’s our curated guide … Read more
Santa Rosa (Jeff Chiu/Associated Press) Windsor (Godofredo A. Vásquez/Associated Press) Forestville (Godofredo A. Vásquez/Associated Press) Mt. Shasta (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/Associated Press) Soda Springs (Brooke Hess-Homeier/Associated Press) An atmospheric river dumping rain across Northern California and several feet of snow in the Sierra was making its way across the state Friday, bringing flooding and threatening mudslides … Read more
Mother interviewed after baby disappeared from neonatal ward at the hospital on Thursday A 30-year-old Austrian woman was arrested after police found her missing newborn dead in a garbage. Photo by Getty Images /iStockphoto The body of a newborn baby who was reported missing from a neonatal ward at a hospital in Vienna was found … Read more
‘For security reasons, specific details regarding these temporary measures cannot be disclosed’ Transport Minister Anita Anand.Photo by Jean Levac/Postmedia/File Two days after alerting Canadians that air travellers to India would be subjected to extra security screening, federal Transport Minister Anita Anand’s office says those safeguards have been withdrawn. “The measures for passengers traveling to India … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino revealed Friday that former Rep. Mike Rogers was out of the running to be FBI director. Rogers, 61, was rumored to have been on the shortlist to become head of the bureau — but Scavino said Trump threw cold water on the prospect when asked about … Read more
“The SRRA is incredibly proud to support the enhancement of the Meewasin Trail, a resource that plays such a vital role in Saskatoon’s running community and beyond.” Walkers test out the new layer of blacktop on a roughly two-kilometre stretch of the Meewasin Trail between the CPR Bridge and Circle Drive North Bridge in Saskatoon, … Read more
Girls in the Eid family eat lentils cooked by their mother, Yasmin, at their tent in a refugee camp in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, this week. (Abdel Kareem Hana / Associated Press) Yasmin Eid coughs and covers her face, cooking a small pot of lentils over a fire fed with twigs and scrap paper … Read more
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