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Canada The Mounties are asking Canadians to come forward with any information that can help U.S. authorities probe the attack that killed 14 people in New Orleans on New Year’s Day. Attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar visited Ontario in July 2023, investigator says Geoff Nixon · CBC News · Posted: Jan 07,Continue Reading

NL High winds and high waves have hit downtown St. John’s hard, damaging businesses and collapsing at least one structure. Strong winds, rain, and snow projected for parts of the island Waves ‘like a 12-inch pipe of water’ damage Battery structures in St. John’s High winds and powerful waves brokeContinue Reading

Canada Canada’s skies are opening to new drone rules in 2025Transport Canada is cutting the red tape for longer-distance flights over less-populated areas, among other changes to aviation regulations. It means large-scale drone deliveries, aerial mapping, inspections and more will become more straightforward. The changes build on the country’s firstContinue Reading

Canada They will only know a post-COVID world. They’ll roll their eyes at old-fashioned slang like “rizz.” They’ll ask us to switch off the oldies when we try to play Taylor Swift in the car. Generation Beta is officially here. For babies born from 2025 to 2039, ‘the digital andContinue Reading

Canada What’s the most common 2025 New Year’s resolution? Not calling it a resolutionFor many of us, the end of December is when we take stock — of our accomplishments, our blessings, our losses, our pants that stopped fitting comfortably somewhere after the last holiday potluck. But does anyone stillContinue Reading

Canada 5 modern parenting trends we’re more than ready to ditch in 2025What a year 2024 was for parents. From so-called Sephora kids and “sharenting” to baking goldfish crackers from scratch, here are the modern parenting trends we’re happy to say “see ya” to in 2025. 2024 featured ‘sharenting,’ ‘trad wives’Continue Reading

Canada For some Canadian students, music class also means turntables and MIDI controllersStep into a music class today and you might just find laptops, turntables and MIDI controllers alongside the clarinets, recorders or violins most people expect to see. From elementary school through post-secondary, some teachers are expanding the definitionContinue Reading

Nova Scotia The Halifax airport was closed for about 90 minutes Saturday night after a plane arriving from St. John’s experienced a problem landing, which saw the plane skid down the runway and part of it catch fire. ‘We started seeing fire on the left side of the plane andContinue Reading

Canada An investigation by Indian officials that alleges dozens of Canadian colleges and universities might be linked to a scheme of illegally ferrying students across the Canada-U.S. border reveals the “staggering” extent to which holes in Canada’s immigration system can be exploited, some experts say. Canada lags behind U.S. in screening technology,Continue Reading