TORONTO — A union representing Ontario couriers delivering packages for Amazon.com Inc. are alleging the e-commerce giant engaged in unfair labour practices that resulted in the termination of employees, the closure of one courier company’s Mississauga operations and the bankruptcy of another. In a series of applications filed with the Ontario Labour Relations Board in…
Click:C27035-20 Nigeria’s president and the leading opposition candidate urged people to remain calm after a national election scheduled for Saturday was postponed by a week just five hours before polls were due to open. However, the opposition candidate, former vice president Atiku Abubakar, later accused President Muhammadu Buhari of instigating the delay to "disenfranchise" the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – As a result of her outstanding play over the past week, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) has selected senior Keara O’Toole of Bishop Machebeuf High School in Denver, Colo., as the MaxPreps/NFCA National High School Player of the Week. O’Toole was a perfect 10-for-10 at the plate in the Buffaloes’…
The French authorities opened an investigation on Sunday into “yellow-vest” protesters who were filmed shouting anti-Semitic insults at a leading writer and philosopher. Police intervened to protect Alain Finkelkraut, 69, after a group of “yellow vests” started yelling furiously at him on the sidelines of a protest in Paris on Saturday. Video footage posted on…
HALIFAX — A new study from Statistics Canada draws data from an unexpected source to suggest Halifax has the highest rate of cannabis consumption per capita among five urban centres across the country. The national statistics agency launched its study in March, using a relatively new technology called wastewater-based epidemiology. Watch: Nova Scotia leads Canada…
To see a landscape from above is to transform it, to understand it differently, to form new concepts of action within it. A plane’s window brings a world into view and renders it alien, a swollen floor of cloud-tufted strangeness. It feels like game developers are still discovering the power of such perspective shifts, though…
2013-14 NFCA High SchoolAll-Academic Teams High School Unweighted School Name GPA Hazleton Area 3.953 Axtell 3.907 Washburn Rural 3.884 Lincoln Southwest 3.843 Olathe North 3.837 Heritage-Catoosa 3.808 Piedmont 3.80 East Islip 3.792 Owesnboro Catholic 3.77 Milford 3.747 Sioux City East 3.725 James Clemens 3.708 Holy Cross 3.68 Herkimer 3.68 Rochester Adams 3.68 West Monroe…
The number of complaints filed against Canadian telecom companies soared in the past year, according to the private-sector body whose job it is to resolve those complaints. The Commission for Complaints for Telecom-Television Services (CCTS) says it accepted 14,272 complaints from telecom and TV customers in the 2017-2018 period, up 57 per cent from the…
Shelves lie empty in the few pharmacies left open in the Venezuelan border town of Ureña. There are no medicines, just a few packets of cotton wool and boxes of plasters. A few miles away, on the eerily quiet bridge to Colombia, a fuel tanker and shipping containers placed by the military sit across the…
PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Straschnitzki hasn’t given up his dream of playing hockey. The 19-year-old Alberta teen, who was paralyzed from the chest down in a bus crash involving the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team, has been put through his paces for the past few weeks doing physiotherapy at the Shriners Hospital in Philadelphia. Every drop…