TORONTO — Health Canada has authorized a drug shown to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Lecanemab is the first medication approved in Canada that targets the buildup of amyloid plaque in the brain, which is believed to be an underlying cause of Alzheimer’s disease. The drug is a lab-made antibody that binds to the […]
OTTAWA — Current and former Global Affairs Canada employees who are Black say the department doesn’t take their complaints about racism seriously. “I was representing Canada but Canada did not represent me,” said Madina Iltireh, who spent more than 20 years working on the administration of foreign aid programs. She spoke Wednesday on Parliament Hill […]
Toronto cops are examining after a hit-and-run accident sent out 2 pedestrians to a healthcare facility on Friday night. According to authorities, a kid and an adult were struck by a lorry in the city's Moss Park area, near Adelaide Street and Ontario Street right before 10:30 p.m. Police state the motorist of the car left the […]
Police in Durham area have actually detained 5 teens in connection with a heist that supposedly occurred in Oshawa last month. On Sept. 5, officers were contacted us to the location of William Lott Drive and Greenhill Avenue for reports of an individual with a weapon. When authorities reached the scene, they talked with […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 29-year-old man charged with sparking one of the most destructive blazes in California history likely used a lighter to start a fire on New Year’s Day that smoldered underground and reignited almost a week later, killing 12 people in wealthy Los Angeles-area neighborhoods, authorities said Wednesday. Federal law enforcement officials […]
York Regional Police state a guy desired in connection with the December 2021 attack of Elnaz Hajtamiri has actually been apprehended in Texas and extradited to Canada. Private investigators validated that 25-year-old Sukhpreet Singh of Mississauga was nabbed by the U.S. Marshals Service on Aug. 19 with support from Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, […]
Authorities state Hajtamiri, then 37, was struck with a frying pan by several suspects before the enemies ran away in an automobile. In 2022, 4 suspects were charged in connection with the attack, consisting of Hajtamiri's ex-boyfriend, Mohamad Lilo, who was apprehended by York Regional Police and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and charged with tried murder and tried kidnapping. Cops state 3 suspects dressed in phony authorities equipment required her from the home at gunpoint and left in a white Lexus RX SUV. In March 2023, cops jailed Krystal Lawrence of Brampton, charging her with kidnapping in connection with the Wasaga Beach kidnapping.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has stated it will momentarily limit imports of pistachios and pistachio-containing items from Iran as a preventive procedure to safeguard Canadians amidst a salmonella break out that has actually sickened more than 100 individuals throughout the nation. The firm stated Saturday that all importers of pistachios and pistachio-containing items will be […]
"Shipments will be subjected to a hold and test for Salmonella or declined entry if importers do not supply this evidence," CFIA composed in a press release."Healthy individuals might experience short-term signs such as fever, headache, throwing up, queasiness, stomach cramps and diarrhea.
One individual is dead after a wheel flew off a lorry and struck 2 other lorries on the Queen Elizabeth Way in St. Catharines, provincial authorities state. In a post on X prior to twelve noon on Tuesday, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) stated the crash happened on the Toronto-bound lanes near Niagara Street. "The accident took place […]
" The accident took place as an outcome of a wheel-off that came from a lorry in the Fort Erie-bound lanes. The motorist in one of the cars was noticable dead at the scene.
EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has directed officials to invoke the Charter’s notwithstanding clause in amending three laws that affect transgender people, says a leaked government memo obtained by The Canadian Press. The internal document sent Sept. 10 by the justice department asks other departments to assemble information as per a directive from Smith’s […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban said Saturday they reached agreement with U.S. envoys on an exchange of prisoners as part of an effort to normalize relations between the United States and Afghanistan. They gave no details of a detainee swap and the White House did not comment on the meeting in Kabul or the […]
A by-election project is underway to change previous Scarborough-Rouge Park Councillor Jennifer McKelvie in Ward 25. Election day will be hung on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, with surveys open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Those who can't make it on election day will likewise have the choice to vote at advance ballot places on […]
The due date to use to vote by mail was Sept. 4 at 4:30 p.m. An overall of 20 prospects have actually been accredited to run in the upcoming by-election.
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP)-- A boat mishap on a river in north-central Nigeria eliminated a minimum of 31 individuals, authorities stated Wednesday. The overloaded boat struck a tree trunk in the Borgu location of Niger state while it brought 90 individuals, according to Hussaini Isah, an authorities with Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency. Isah stated 50 […]