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…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Behind a near perfect weekend at the plate and almost flawless outings in the circle, LSU outfielder A.J. Andrews and Florida’s Delanie Gourley were named the 2015 Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I National Player and Pitcher of the Week, respectively for games played over Feb. 23-March 1. Andrews, a senior from Oldsmar,…
People living in Montreal have something interesting to celebrate this holiday season. The city has the fastest mobile data speeds in Canada. Edmonton matches up to Montreal when it comes to download speeds, but the city in Quebec beats it for upload speeds — both reach 46.9 mbps for downloads but Montreal hits 12.6 mbps,…
Click:4MIT65B80307-1 He holds an honorary knighthood and uses public transport to go to work both in London, where he has a home, and New York. And he is far wealthier than Donald Trump. Meet Michael Bloomberg, the Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent-turned-Democrat, who is mulling over taking on the US president in an electoral battle of the billionaires in…
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Along with the induction of the 2014 Hall of Fame Class, day three of the convention was highlight by the touching presentation of the inaugural Donna Newberry Perseverance Award to Notre Dame head coach Deanna Gumpf. Also included in the day’s program were Travel Balll, High School and Cal JC…
OKLAHOMA CITY – Senior Michelle Duncan tossed a two-hit shutout with seven strikeouts leading No. 4 Dixie State to a 1-0 victory over No. 21 California (Pa.) in game three of the 2015 NCAA Division II Championship, Thursday evening at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium. Against the first six batters of the game, Duncan…
A Belgian intelligence officer is suspected of giving Russia access to confidential information, raising fears European Union and Nato secrets could have been leaked. A major in the ADIV, Belgium’s military intelligence agency, allegedly allowed a Russian agent in Serbia to see state secrets in 2016, De Morgen newspaper reported on Thursday. Although an internal…
Before summer started, we were left on the edge of our seats following all the anxiety-inducing cliffhangers from our favourite TV series. Luckily, as summer went on, we kept ourselves occupied enough to get over our TV heartbreak and the eternity it seemed to take for our shows to get back on our screens. Well,…