REVIEW: Ru celebrates the healing nature of the kindness of strangers

Something many people in Western society know very little of is the experience of living as a refugee. Fleeing a terrifying situation, spending months upon months in transit. It’s an incredibly scary and restless situation with little joy to be found. For refugees, they do it all in the hope of a better life. But what constitutes a better life?

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Chloé Djandji in Ru, courtesy of Drowster et Immina Films.

is a film that seeks to examine not the process of fleeing a war-torn country,

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Police identify man stabbed to death in Oshawa, 2nd suspect remains at-large

Police have identified the 62-year-old man who died following a stabbing in Oshawa earlier this week .

Durham Regional Police officers were called to a home near Dean Avenue and Ritson Road South around 11:30 p.m. on Monday for reports of a disturbance.

The man was found outside the home with “obvious signs of trauma” and was rushed to hospital, where he later died.

In an update on Thursday, police identified the victim as Steven Turgeon, of Oshawa. A post


U.K. suspends trade negotiations with Canada, as each accuse the other of not budging

OTTAWA — The United Kingdom is hitting the brakes on trade talks with Canada after Ottawa decided not to extend temporary measures put in place after Brexit.

London announced the pause in negotiations Thursday less than a month before the ninth round of talks towards a permanent trade deal was scheduled to take place.

“Our job is to make sure we protect our farmers and we are going to do that,” Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay said after the news emerged.

Trade between the two countries is governed by an interim deal signed after the


A house fire in northwest Alaska killed a woman and 5 children, officials say

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A woman and five children have died in a fire at a home in a small northwest Alaska village, Alaska State Troopers said Thursday.

The remains of the six have been recovered from the home in Noorvik, an Inupiat community of about 650 people located just over 500 miles (800 kilometers) northwest of Anchorage. The children authorities believe were killed range in age from 9 to 16, troopers spokesperson Tim DeSpain said by email.

He said he would


Scotiabank Arena to host PWHL’s ‘Battle on Bay Street’ between Toronto and Montreal

The Professional Women’s Hockey League is heading to Scotiabank Arena.

The United North American circuit announced Thursday that its Feb. 16 game between Toronto and Montreal will be played at the home of the NHL’s Maple Leafs and NBA’s Raptors.

Dubbed the “Battle on Bay Street,” the contest was originally scheduled for Mattamy Athletic Centre, which is Toronto’s home rink and part of the old Maple Leaf Gardens.

The PWHL has set multiple attendance records for women’s professional hockey since the


Study suggests oilsands pollutant release vastly higher than official estimates

Alberta’s oilsands are releasing potentially hazardous compounds into the atmosphere at rates dozens of times higher than official estimates, newly published research suggests.

The authors say the massive releases of volatile organic compounds, separate from the industry’s climate-change-causing emissions, raise concerns about what those hundreds of complex, highly reactive chemicals are doing in the environment.

“It’s difficult to know,” said John Liggio, an atmospheric scientist with Environment Canada who worked with a group from Yale University on the paper,


A California man is found guilty of murder for killing a 6-year-old boy in a freeway shooting

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A jury on Thursday convicted a California man of murder for shooting to death a 6-year-old boy who was riding in the back of his mother’s car on a busy freeway.

Jurors in Orange County found 26-year-old Marcus Eriz guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Aiden Leos, who was strapped in a booster seat on his way to kindergarten. They also found him guilty of shooting at an occupied motor vehicle.

Authorities


Scrutiny of Italian influencer’s charity-cake deal leads to proposed law with stiff fines

ROME (AP) — A scandal over an that authorities alleged misled consumers into thinking sales proceeds were going to charity inspired Italy’s government on Thursday to approve stiff fines for insufficient product labeling.

The Cabinet approved proposed legislation that would provide for fines as high as 50,000 euros ($55,000) in cases where manufacturers don’t clearly label products to indicate just what percentage of the sales would go to charity.

Recently, Italy’s antitrust authority fined fashion-


A Pennsylvania law shields teacher misconduct complaints. A judge ruled that’s unconstitutional

A Pennsylvania law that makes it a crime to release information about teacher disciplinary complaints is an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment, a federal judge has ruled. The judge who sought to publicize a misconduct allegation against his son’s school psychologist — and criticize the state’s dismissal of it — without fear of being prosecuted for the disclosure.

The unusual case involves the , a state law that controls how the Pennsylvania Department of Education investigates and prosecutes misconduct complaints against teachers and other school staff. The law’s confidentiality


Senate deal on border and Ukraine at risk of collapse as Trump pushes stronger measures

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan Senate deal to pair border enforcement measures and Ukraine aid faced potential collapse Thursday as Senate Republicans grew increasingly wary of an election-year compromise that Donald Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee, says is “meaningless.”

Senate negotiators have been striving for weeks to finish a on border and immigration policy that is meant to tamp down the number of migrants who come to the U.S. border with Mexico. But now that negotiations have dragged for weeks, are weighing it down.