Supreme Court cites hearsay evidence in upholding order of new trial in beating death
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed the order of a new trial for an Alberta man accused in a beating death.
Joshua Dennehy’s bludgeoned body was found late one night in July 2020 in central Alberta.
Dennehy had socialized that evening with Dylon Saddleback and a number of others outside a trailer, and at some point everyone but the two men left to attend a nearby birthday party.
The timing of the group’s departure was key to establishing how long the men were the only ones
Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon kill 10, including paramedics and a child, officials say
BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon Friday killed 10 people, including six paramedics and a Syrian girl, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said, the latest in near-daily attacks from both sides that have not stopped despite the fragile, U.S.-brokered ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war.
The first strike hit the village of Hanouiyeh, killing four paramedics working for Hezbollah’s Islamic Health Association and wounding two others including one paramedic, the ministry said.
Another strike Friday morning on
Canada’s top doctor set to give an update on both Ebola and hantavirus today
A person from Ontario has tested negative for Ebola after returning from Ethiopia, Canada’s chief public health officer says on Friday.
Dr. Joss Reimer said the individual reported symptoms that were consistent with a range of illnesses.
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World Cup expected to boost Toronto tourism even if hotel bookings haven’t surged
TORONTO — Hotel industry and tourism groups in Toronto say they are optimistic that FIFA World Cup matches will bring many people to the city and boost the local economy despite a lack of surge in hotel bookings and fans’ complaints about ticket prices.
President and CEO of the Greater Toronto Hotel Association Sara Anghel says the soccer tournament will definitely have a positive economic impact, even after FIFA cancelled thousands of hotel room bookings in Toronto, Vancouver and other host cities.
She says Toronto remains an attractive destination with plenty to offer to visitors
Father charged with impaired driving after crash kills son, injures OPP officer
The father of a 10-year-old boy is facing charges of impaired operation causing bodily harm and death,
Matthew Bigras, 40, of Ottawa, is also charged with dangerous operation causing bodily harm and causing death.
His son, Michael, was in the truck along with another adult passenger when it collided with a marked Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) cruiser on Highway 7 in December 2025. The incident happened between Drummond School Road and Drummond Concession 7, just east of Perth.
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Bruce Dern takes a bow at the Cannes Film Festival with a new documentary on his life
CANNES, France (AP) — When Bruce Dern was leaving the Actors Studio to try to make it in Los Angeles, Elia Kazan and Lee Strasberg warned him that he wasn’t going to be landing leading man parts. He was going to be “the fifth cowboy to the right.”
“They said: Just make sure you’re the most honest, unique fifth cowboy right that anyone’s ever seen,” Dern recalls.
Dern had to play the long game. But for the actor,
Toronto weekend forecast: Cool, rainy Saturday before temperatures surge to 20s next week
Higher sales at gas stations as prices rise boost retail sales in March
OTTAWA — Retail sales rose 0.9 per cent to $72.7 billion in March as higher gas prices boosted overall sales for the month, Statistics Canada said on Friday.
Sales at gas stations and fuel vendors rose 12.4 per cent as the attack on Iran by the U.S. and Israel drove oil and gas prices higher, the agency said. In volume terms, sales for the subsector fell 1.9 per cent for the month.
“The war-driven price shock is
WHO chief says Ebola outbreak in Congo is ‘spreading rapidly’ and upgrades risk assessment
The head of the World Health Organization said Friday that the Ebola outbreak in Congo is “spreading rapidly” and now poses a “very high” risk at the national level.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the U.N. health agency was revising upward to “very high” its assessment of the risk within Congo, which had previously been deemed as high. The risk remains high for regional spread and low at global levels, he told reporters.
The WHO chief noted that 82 cases have been
Pushed to the limit, Republicans show rare defiance to Trump’s demands
The day arrived when the Senate just said, No.
President Donald Trump’s political revenge tour met its potential match this week as angry, upset Republican senators, pushed to a breaking point by his seemingly insatiable and outlandish demands — particularly a $1.776 billion fund for Jan. 6 rioters and others he believes were wrongly prosecuted — did the unthinkable.
They simply refused, closed up shop, and went home.
The moment was as rare as it was daring, a sudden flex from the Congress