Politics

A justice with Ontario’s Appeal Court has reserved her decision on whether Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard should get bail as he tries to appeal his sexual assault conviction at the country’s top court. Justice Jill Copeland heard arguments at a bail hearing for Hoggard this morning, weeks after the Hedley frontman began serving his sentence. He was released on bail …

Francine is expected to make landfall on Wednesday afternoon. Tropical Storm Francine is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane on Tuesday as it takes aim at the Gulf Coast. Landfall is expected in Louisiana on Wednesday afternoon as a Category 1 hurricane. This weather map shows Francine’s forecasted path through Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. ABC News Heavy rain and strong …

CHURCHILL, Manitoba – Change has broken, remade and continues to reshape this remote town where tundra meets forest on the shore of Hudson Bay. The economic base collapsed when the military left town. Rail service and cargo ships — the lifeblood of supplies for a town not connected to the rest of the world by roads — blinked out. The …

An American presidential historian predicts a Kamala Harris presidency as the outcome of the U.S. November elections. In an interview with CTV News Channel on Tuesday, Allan Lichtman forecast that Kamala Harris will become the first woman president and the first president of mixed African and East Asian descent. Lichtman is known for his accurate election predictions. He has correctly …

MONTREAL – Just days after demolishing his deal with Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is holding a three-day strategy session with his MPs in Montreal, where his MPs are embracing their new-found distance from what one called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “radioactive” brand. Singh has brought his caucus of 23 MPs to the prime minister’s hometown, to prepare …

In 2022, Tanya Frisk-Welburn and her husband bought what they hoped would be a dream home in Mexico. The seller was a company called Caban Condos whose website described it as “two guys from Saskatchewan” building condominiums near idyllic seaside locations in the Yucatan peninsula. Frisk-Welburn, who lives in Bengough, Sask., stumbled upon the company’s advertisements while planning a holiday …

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. chief said Monday that the United Nations has offered to monitor any cease-fire in Gaza and demanded an end to the worst death and destruction he has seen in his more than seven-year tenure. Secretary-General António Guterres said in an interview with The Associated Press that it’s “unrealistic” to think the U.N. could play a …

Over 140 Ukrainian drones targeted multiple Russian regions overnight, including Moscow and surrounding areas, killing at least one person, officials said Tuesday, in one of the biggest drone attacks on Russian soil in the two-and-a-half-year war. A woman died and three people were injured in the town of Ramenskoye, just outside Moscow, where drones hit two multi-storey residential buildings and …

RAMALLAH, West Bank – The Israeli military said Tuesday that an American activist who was killed in the West Bank last week was likely shot “indirectly and unintentionally” by Israeli forces who were aiming at someone else. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old activist from Seattle who also held Turkish citizenship, was killed Friday following a demonstration against Israeli settlements in …

KOLKATA –Junior doctors in India’s West Bengal state have vowed to keep up a strike in protest at the rape and murder of a trainee doctor unless their demands are met, defying a Supreme Court deadline for Tuesday. While demonstrations in other states have been gradually called off after the Supreme Court formed a hospital safety task force, doctors in …