At 381 metres, the towering chimney is the second-tallest structure in Canada after the CN Tower In this file photo, the Superstack and its plume of smoke are reflected on Lake Nepahwin before it was taken out of service by Vale. Photo by Jim Moodie /Postmedia It’s also no longer in use. Built in 1970 … Read more
Publisher of the fiercely independent, pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper has been in prison for four years Sebastian Lai, whose father, Jimmy Lai, has been imprisoned by the government of China.Photo by Peter J. Thompson /National Post Jimmy Lai could well have decamped to Canada as the Chinese Communist Party started strangling Hong Kong’s freedoms four … Read more
‘This is not a fortune-cookie response to an issue. It takes vision. It takes political courage, it takes commitment, and it takes the drive to see it through,’ says Marshall Smith British Columbia had more than 2,500 fatal overdoses in 2023.Photo by Nick Procaylo/Postmedia/File When Alberta introduces legislation next spring that will allow drug addicts … Read more
‘What we’ve been hearing is that things are better for us in Quebec. But we lost. So, things are bad’ Posters for Liberal candidate Laura Palestini and Conservative candidate Louis Ialenti for the byelection in the LaSalle—Émard—Verdun riding in Montreal. In the end, the Bloc Québécois candidate won and the Liberals were left pointing fingers … Read more
Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris smiles as she speaks during a campaign event in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S., September 20, 2024. REUTERS Kamala Harris, as San Francisco DA, as a senator and in her run for the 2020 Democratic prez nomination, backed the decriminalization of prostitution — and won’t say if she’s … Read more
The former fiancee of Lyle Menendez testified Wednesday that he told her his father and mother were killed by the mob–then later confessed in jail that he had killed them because his mother sexually abused him and because his father abused his brother. Jamie Pisarcik, a former tennis pro who spent four years in an … Read more
Column: They keep finding — and losing — a granddaughter in the grip of addiction The search party walked slowly up Alvarado Street by MacArthur Park and turned right onto Wilshire Boulevard, filled with heartbreak and hope. Barbara Siegman and Michele Wood, mother and daughter, were searching for a 34-year-old named Jackie, who is homeless and … Read more
A photo that was presented by the city of Sierra Madre as court evidence shows a bear at a property in the 700 block of Alta Vista Drive in Sierra Madre. (Superior Court of California) Owning a home in Southern California isn’t just a dream for humans. Apparently the bears want in on the market … Read more
The exterior of a 7-Eleven convenience store is seen on Aug. 20 in Los Angeles. (Eric Thayer / Getty Images) A group of about 50 juveniles on bikes ransacked a 7-Eleven in Pico-Robertson on Friday evening, the latest in a string of recent robberies targeting the convenience chain, authorities said. The group of juveniles, estimated … Read more
A guidance counselor at a West L.A. high school has been charged with having an unlawful sexual relationship with a 16-year-old male student, authorities said. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office charged Julie Tichon, 37, with three felony counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor more than three years younger and one felony … Read more
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