STELLARTON — Under a cloudless sky in central Nova Scotia, about 50 people gathered outside an RCMP detachment Saturday to demand answers about the disappearance of two young children exactly one year ago.

On the morning of May 2, 2025, RCMP were told six-year-old Lilly Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack had wandered from their home in rural Lansdowne Station, about 140 kilometres north of Halifax.

Since then, very few clues have emerged about their whereabouts, though a

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Colombian superstar will give a free concert on Copacabana Beach in on Saturday night in an event that Brazilian officials expect to draw some 2 million people to one of the world’s most iconic waterfronts.

The performance follows similar shows by and last year — also attended by huge crowds that danced on the sprawling sands. For Shakira, it’s part of her ” ,” or “Women No Longer Cry,” world tour, named after her 2024 album.

The

Many residents in a large swath of downtown Toronto will be without power overnight.

Toronto Hydro says equipment replacement work being done by Hydro One will take place starting at 11 p.m. Saturday until 11 a.m. Sunday morning.

The utility says the outage will impact select residential and commercial buildings within the area of Queen Street West south to Front Street and Bathurst Street east to Bay Street.

“The planned outage

The country’s poverty rate barely budged in 2024, remaining well above 2020 levels with more than one in 10 Canadians qualifying as impoverished, according to Statistics Canada.

In a newly released survey, the agency found 11 per cent of Canadians — about 4.5 million people — lived in poverty in 2024 versus 11.1 per cent in 2023 and seven per cent in 2020.

Nunavut recorded the highest poverty rate at 3

Ontario Premier Doug Ford received an honorary doctorate from a U.S. university on Saturday.

Ford wore a black cap and gown as he took to the stage at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan to receive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

In a commencement speech, Ford acknowledged that the assembled graduates may be wondering why a Canadian politician was appearing before them.

He said he spent years living and working in the U.S., helping build his family business and lauded “more than 200 years”

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police have released body-worn camera footage of officers shooting and killing a machete-wielding man who at a Grand Central subway stop last month.

The posted on the department’s YouTube page Friday shows officers confronting Anthony Griffin after he had randomly slashed three people at the 42nd Street-Grand Central subway station, which connects to Grand Central Terminal.

The uniformed officers, identified in the video as detectives Ryan Giuffre and Anthony Manetta, are seen encountering the 44

Toronto police are warning the public after a high-risk offender was released on Friday.

Police officials say 49-year-old William Gibson was released after serving a four-year sentence for assault causing bodily harm, robbery, obstructing a peace officer and failing to attend court.

Toronto police say they issued the warning because of Gibson’s “demonstrated risk to the community.”

“Mr. Gibson has been deemed a high risk to re-offend violently. Upon his release, he will not be subject

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The folksy wisdom and jokes that were a staple of the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting for decades when was leading the show will be missing Saturday, but shareholders still started lining up at midnight outside a Nebraska arena to listen to new .

Attendance is down significantly this year with the arena only a little over half full as the meeting unfolded. That’s much different from the past few years when more than 40,000 attended to listen to the 95-year