VANCOUVER — Cannabis connoisseurs in Vancouver have been able to buy potent weed over the counter for years — but ironically, that could change when marijuana becomes legal. None of the long-standing pot shops in the city have received provincial licences to operate, with only two weeks left until legalization. Watch: Open-air marijuana pop-up gets…
LONDON — Thomas Markle spent a career in Hollywood, but nothing prepared him for this. The father of royal bride-to-be Meghan Markle has been quoted as saying he will not attend his daughter’s wedding to Prince Harry this week after suffering a reported heart attack amid the intense media interest around the nuptials. The retired…
A gay atheist has launched his own party in a bid to take on Poland’s conservative political establishment and curb the influence of the Catholic Church. Robert Biedron announced the name of his party, Wiosna (Spring), to a packed Warsaw conference hall on Sunday in what he hopes will be the first step in unseating Law and…
Hate to break it to you, Toronto: the rest of Canada thinks your tap water kind of sucks. Almost 38 per cent of Ontarians think Toronto tap water tastes great, a new poll conducted by Santevia Water Systems has found, but the rest of the country thinks that the water pouring from the taps in…
Canadian businesses are having a historically hard time finding employees, and the good news for workers is that pay is likely headed up. The latest Help Wanted Report from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) showed Canada’s job vacancy rate hit 3.1 per cent in the April-to-June quarter this year, the highest rate since…
A 96-year-old former SS member who was involved in a 1944 massacre of 86 French men and boys is facing a new investigation by German prosecutors. Karl Münter was sentenced to death in absentia by a French court in 1949, but has never served any form of sentence for his part in the indiscriminate killings,…
As Paris braced for another day of “yellow vest” anti-government protests, a massive explosion ripped through a building in a central area of the city, killing two firefighters and a Spanish tourist, injuring dozens and causing severe damage to nearby buildings. "As firemen were looking for a gas leak in the building, a dramatic explosion…
A record-high share of Canada’s small and mid-sized businesses are reporting they are being held back because of a skilled-labour shortage, but that doesn’t seem to be helping Canadians find work any faster. The Business Barometer from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) for October found nearly 47 per cent of small and mid-sized…
VANCOUVER — Beatrice Janyk credits vitamins, 12 hours of sleep a day and a busy mind for allowing her to donate blood regularly for most of the last 70 years. At 95, Canadian Blood Services says Janyk is the country’s oldest blood donor. The great-grandmother and Coquitlam, B.C., resident has been donating blood since the…
The African Ranger’s phone rings in the middle of the night. Her covert contact deep within the organised crime network of elephant poachers tells her 200 kg of ivory is about to be loaded into a container at the docks bound for the Middle East. Should she act now to seize the ivory and arrest…