NBA Finals MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Olympic champion gymnast Simone Biles won as best male and female athletes at the ESPYS on Wednesday night in Los Angeles. Gilgeous-Alexander, of Hamilton, Ont., led the Oklahoma City Thunder to the NBA championship last month while piling up hardware as league MVP and scoring champion. “It’s a dream come … Read more
An airstrike on Gaza’s sole Catholic Church killed two people and injured several others, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said on Thursday. “Two persons were killed as a result of an apparent strike by the Israeli army that hit the Holy Family Compound this morning,” the Patriarchate said in a statement. The Holy Family Church … Read more
A fire at a newly opened mall in eastern Iraq’s Wasit province killed more than 60 people, including women and children, Iraqi officials said Thursday. Iraq’s interior ministry said in a statement that 61 people died, most of them from suffocation, in the fire that broke out late Wednesday in the city of Kut. Among the … Read more
Hospitalizations related to injuries from scooters and e-scooters have risen, according to new Canadian data, as emergency physicians warn the two-wheeled vehicles aren’t toys. The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) said Thursday that nearly 1,000 people were hospitalized for scooter-related injuries during the 12-month period starting April 1, 2023. That’s up from 810 during … Read more
As some Donald Trump supporters express anger with the U.S. president over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, he says he “no longer” wants their support — and he might not get it during the 2026 midterms. Trump and members of his administration have long promised to release any documents related to Epstein, a convicted child sex … Read more
Riley Simpson has been playing softball since they were nine years old. They fell in love with the sport after watching their older sister play. In June, their softball team won the Edmonton city championship and Riley was hoping to play on higher-level teams as they grew and got better. In Alberta, where Riley is … Read more
Multiple Canadian contractors that have helped build a sprawling, taxpayer-supported electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in southwestern Ontario allege they haven’t been paid for millions of dollars worth of work, court records show. Lawsuits between companies on complex projects like the NextStar Energy plant in Windsor aren’t abnormal, according to a veteran construction lawyer. “The issues raised … Read more
Nova Scotia RCMP say they are forensically examining items found during the search for two young children who went missing from a rural Nova Scotia community 2½ months ago, as units from multiple provinces work to find out what happened to the siblings. Lilly Sullivan, 6, and Jack Sullivan, 4, were reported missing on the … Read more
Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to further crack down on the amount of cheap, foreign steel entering the Canadian market by the end of the month, as the domestic industry continues to be clobbered by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Carney made the announcement in Hamilton on Wednesday morning, eliciting a sigh of relief from an … Read more
The two pieces were buried under the earth for possibly more than 12,000 years. This summer, they were accidentally unearthed on a Paris, Ont., dairy farm. For Laura Vellenga, finding what are believed to be two parts of an ancient spearhead is a once-in-a-lifetime discovery. “I knew right away this was something special,” she said, carefully admiring two pieces of … Read more