Netflix’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ is a harrowing descent into horror. The cast had a ball
NEW YORK (AP) — Put 40 boys alone on an island and what do you get? Harmony or chaos?
British author William Golding predicted not good things in his harrowing 1954 classic novel “Lord of the Flies,” and a new powerful, kinetic makes an inspired case that he was probably right.
The Netflix series premiering Monday follows more than two dozen British boys in the mid-1950s stranded on a tropical island after a plane crash as they descend into tyranny and
4 Canadians on board cruise ship with deadly hantavirus outbreak
Four Canadians are confirmed to be onboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean where a suspected outbreak of the rare hantavirus has killed three passengers and left at least three other people seriously ill.
The operator of the cruise, Oceanwide Expeditions, wrote in a press release Monday that it is still dealing with a “serious medical situation on board the m/v Hondius, which is currently off the coast of Cape Verde.”
Hantavirus is a rodent-borne illness spread by contact with rodents or their urine, saliva or droppings
Crews fighting fire at 11 Thorncliffe Park Dr., site of 2025 blaze that smouldered for weeks
In November 2025 a fire broke out in the narrow space between adjoining condo complexes at 11 Thorncliffe Park Dr. and 21 Overlea Blvd., slowly burning for weeks while displaced residents found new accommodations and perplexed fire crews struggled to solve the smouldering riddle.
On Monday, it was déjà vu all over again after a three-alarm fire broke out in the same part of the same complex, prompting 20 fire trucks and 100 firefighters to descend on the scene. But
36% of Canadian restaurants operating at a loss or breaking even: Q1 report
Report: Mavericks hiring Masai Ujiri as team president
Masai Ujiri is taking the next step in his basketball journey.
The former Toronto Raptors president has been hired as the Dallas Mavericks’ new team president and alternate governor, ESPN’s Shams Charania and Tim MacMahon Monday.
He replaces Nico Harrison, who was fired in November.
Ujiri was hired by the Raptors as general manager in 2013, later becoming president of basketball operations in 2016. Under his leadership, the Raptors built a sustained contender, culminating in the 2019 NBA championship
Rudy Giuliani is breathing on his own while hospitalized with pneumonia, spokesperson says
NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor is breathing on his own after being hospitalized with pneumonia and placed on a ventilator, his spokesperson said Monday.
Giuliani, 81, remains in critical but stable condition at a Florida hospital and is being monitored as a precautionary measure, spokesperson Ted Goodman said.
Goodman said Giuliani’s condition was exacerbated by restrictive airway disease attributed to his exposure to dust and toxins from the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center.
Ontario Court of Appeal rules dog walker was ‘owner’ in dog bite liability case
Ontario’s highest court has ruled that a dog walker who was bitten while working cannot seek damages from her clients since provincial law defines her as the animal’s “owner” at that time.
The Court of Appeal decision says the dog walker had been working part-time for two clients for a few months by March 2022 when she was bitten while trying to put booties on a dog named Forrest, who had no previous record of aggressive behaviour.
The dog walker suffered injuries to her abdomen,
Auditor general reports on avian flu vaccines, First Nations funding
OTTAWA — Two federal watchdogs released five audits Monday, including probes into federal workplace accessibility and avian flu.
Here are some of the highlights:
Indigenous Services Canada failed to monitor funding for First Nations
A report from auditor general Karen Hogan found that Indigenous Services Canada failed to effectively implement, monitor or assess funding for First Nations.
The report looked at measures introduced under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, who made resetting Canada’s relationship with Indigenous peoples a priority for his government.
The audit found that more than $6.
Solomon says new federal AI strategy will track impact on jobs
OTTAWA — The federal government’s promised new national AI strategy will consider the technology’s impacts on the labour market, Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said on Monday.
It’s been six months since the government wrapped up fast-tracked consultations on the strategy — Solomon initially promised it would be tabled by the end of last year. He said last fall Canada couldn’t afford to wait and had to move quickly.
When he was asked Monday to explain the delay in introducing the strategy, Solomon said it
Man who killed 3 siblings in drunk driving crash to be sentenced Monday
A man who caused a car crash that killed three siblings last year will be sentenced on Monday.
The fatal collision took place on May 18, 2025, just after midnight. Akash Paladugu and his wife Jade Galve were in a van with their four children, heading home after watching Victoria Day fireworks, with Paladugu behind the wheel.
According to an agreed statement of facts, then 19-year-old Ethan Lehouillier was driving a van and exiting Highway 401 at Renforth Drive at nearly
