Weekend knife attack on B.C. bus was ISIS terrorism, RCMP alleges

Ottawa is buzzing with public servants in numbers that haven’t been seen since before the pandemic.And it’s all thanks to workers fighting for the right not to have to be there.Tuesday marks six days since more than 150,000 public servants walked off the job as part of their contract negotiations with the federal government.One of the major sticking points is the union’s call for more flexibility to allow workers to do their jobs from home.In December Treasury Board President Mona Fortier directed office workers who had spent most of the pandemic working remotely to return to the office at least two days a week.After COVID-19 hit, the city’s downtown businesses have suffered without throngs of workers to frequent them.Downtown Ottawa city councillor Ariel Troster says she thinks public servants will never return the core full time and the city needs to rethink how it supports the businesses that once relied on the workers.

Shaun Ryder appeared to surprise his I'm A Celebrity... South Africa campmates when he shared the real reason for wearing sunglasses when night fell on their first night in camp.

The new Omicron sub-variant has begun to spread across the world.

Everybody Loves Raymond from 1996-2005 as well as films including Ice Age, The Big Sick and The Irishman, spoke about his health scare in a new interview on WTF with Marc Maron.Romano spoke about how he’d suffered for years with high cholesterol – something that led to a 90 per cent blockage in his main artery.He said: “I had high cholesterol 20 years ago and my guy always told me, ‘Why don’t we start going on the statin?’ Every time, I said, ‘Let me do it myself.'”Romano said he would go home and try to eat healthier to reverse the cholesterol himself, but admitted that it wasn’t successful – a pattern that lasted for 16 years.He said he “would go home and eat a little healthier and get it down a couple ticks”, but then his doctor would say: “It was 280 and now its 220 – you gotta get it down even more.”“But I’d go home and think I was hot shit – that was the cycle,” he continued.The actor said that he had to “have a stent put in” because he had “90 per cent blockage” in the artery deemed “the widow-maker”.“I got kind of lucky that we found it,” he continued, saying that he “would have gone on the meds” sooner had he realised how serious it was.Talking about getting older, he said: “Saying 50 was weird, but saying 60 sounds foreign, it sounds fake. In my head I don’t feel that old.

After seven decades of work, 91-year-old Betty Glover is finally able to retire.

₹44.78 crore was spent on 'addition/alternation' of Arvind Kejriwal's government accommodation The BJP on Tuesday claimed that around ₹45 crore was spent on the "beautification" of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's official residence in the Civil Lines area of the city and demanded his resignation on "moral" ground. No immediate reaction was available from the Delhi government or the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over the BJP claims. "It was not renovation and a new structure has come up in the place of the old structure.

On a Sunday morning in Taipei, a few dozen Taiwanese civilians carrying travel coffee mugs and notebooks settled into their seats in a classroom for a day-long crash course on surviving a Chinese military invasion.

Sharon Osbourne is providing fans with an update on her husband Ozzy Osbourne’s health after he announced he would be retiring from touring.  The former "The Talk" host revealed she had to take a break from her television duties to care for Ozzy after he experienced a string of health battles -- including Parkinson’s disease, a "life-altering" surgery and COVID-19. "Ozzy’s Achilles’ heel has always been his lungs, so to get something like COVID that affects your breathing and all of that, it was just torturous," Sharon said during an interview with The Sun. "It has been very difficult.

Holidaymakers who had their trip cancelled amid the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic will be able to rebook flights with British Airways until late next year.

strike by the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and amid government vows not to negotiate in public, is the federal government doing exactly that?In what was called “An open letter to public servants and Canadians,” Treasury Board president Mona Fortier on Monday outlined her negotiating team’s position about what she said were the remaining sticking points with PSAC.Fortier also encouraged workers to “get a full understanding of all the issues that remain to be resolved” from their PSAC representatives.“It’s important for Canadians and public servants to understand what the government is doing to end the stress and strain from the labour disruption,” she wrote.The direct appeal to public servants on Monday comes after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other ministers last week insisted the government would not negotiate its position in public and urged talks to continue.“We are not negotiating in public right now,” Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa on Wednesday when asked about the union’s demands. “The negotiations happen at the negotiating table.”Fortier’s letter said the government has reached agreements with PSAC on more than 560 demands from the union.

Booster jabs against Covid-19 are being made available at partnership centres across West Lothian as well as in local health centres.

Children who breathe through their mouth, snore, fiddle with their ears and have worse hearing during a cold are more likely to be autistic, according to a new study.

health insurance. Aditya Birla Health Insurance conducted the survey in 19 cities and interviewed 6,651 respondents. The survey reported that 80% of respondents aged between 25-34 actively seek an employer that ensures family medical expenses while over 89% of respondents across all age groups belive mental health should be included in the policy.

cult in Kenya has turned up dozens of bodies, with the death count expected to rise as police continue to exhume the forest around the Good News International Church.The church land is owned by pastor Paul Mackenzie, who was arrested on April 14 over links to cultism. The bodies found on the 800-acre plot are believed to be his followers, who starved themselves to death believing they would go to heaven and meet Jesus before the end of the world.Last weekend alone, 39 bodies were recovered from mass graves on the property in the Shakahola forest.

Sam Smith had to cancel a second gig just hours before they were due to perform due to illness.

New Delhi: India recorded 6,660 new coronavirus infections in a day, while active cases have decreased to 63,380, the union health ministry data updated on Tuesday said. The death toll in the last three years has increased to 5,31,369 with 24 deaths logged in a day.

Indigenous artists.Indigenous art is increasingly being copied, reproduced or stolen — earlier this year charges were laid in an alleged art fraud ring against a group accused of making and selling pieces of art under the name of Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau.It’s an issue Sen. Patricia Bovey has raised in the House of Commons  advocating for updates to copyright laws to further protect authentic Indigenous art.Bovey told Global News that the issue is complex and won’t be solved by one department.

7,178 cases yesterday.  The active cases in the country now stands at 63,380 from 65,683 yesterday. India saw a total of 9,213 recoveries in the last 24 hours.

The emergence of the XBB.1.16 variant has created a new surge in COVID cases in the country for almost 6 months. Several experts have earlier cautioned about the variant and World Health Organisation has also called it a ‘variant to watch’.  Vipin M Vashishtha, former convenor of Indian Academy of Pediatrics and consultant paediatrician at the Mangla Hospital and Research Centre, Bijnor, who has been one of the first experts to flag this variant, pointed out ‘amid an ongoing surge, it’s time to take a stock of the situation: what we do know, what we don’t about the variant’.  Accordingly, in a series of tweets, the expert lists known and unknown traits of the variant.

PORT RICHMOND - People all over the world are wrapping up a holy weekend. From Easter to Passover to Ramadan, there are different traditions to celebrate.R&R Produce and Garden Center on Allegheny and Aramingo in Port Richmond had a steady stream of people trying to find flowers for the holiday."What are the popular things people are buying," asked FOX 29’s Monica Evans."Geraniums, hyacinths, the palm crosses, the grave markers and the crosses," Manager Dave Trautz answered.Trautz says business is good and he’s selling lots of grave markers."They sell good," Trautz stated."Are they artificial or live plants," Evans inquired."Artificial.

William Whitworths preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 5. (DA Office of 18th) Colorado authorities arrested a 19-year-old suspect for allegedly planning to shoot up multiple schools in Colorado Springs.The 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office on Thursday said the defendant, William Whitworth, who identified as "Lilly" and – according to a DA spokesman – was in the process of transitioning to female. Whitworth is charged with two counts of first-degree criminal attempt to commit murder, criminal mischief, menacing, and interference with staff, faculty, or students of educational institutions. Deputies with the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office responded to a disturbance call in the 13900 block of Double Tree Ranch Circle in the Town of Elbert last Friday, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by FOX 21. NASHVILLE KILLER AUDREY HALE SLEPT WITH JOURNALS ON SCHOOL SHOOTINGS UNDER BED, COURT DOCS REVEALA family member reportedly told 911 dispatchers that her "sister" had threatened to shoot up a school and had anger problems.

NEW DELHI : India, on Friday, reported a single day jump of 6,050 new covid-19 cases nearly after six months, prompting Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya to take a pandemic preparedness review meeting with the health ministers of states and union territories. The country has been witnessing a steady increase in covid-19 cases with average daily cases rising to 4,188 in the week ending 7 April from 571 in the week ended 17 March while increasing the positivity rate to 3.02%.

Read more: Women caught in Syria during fight against ISIS returning to Canada On Thursday, Global Affairs Canada said it had taken four women and 10 kids out of Syria and returned them to Canada.But the repatriation did not go as planned.Six Canadian women were meant to return but two could not be found, said Lawrence Greenspon, the Ottawa lawyer representing the women’s families.They did not shown up at a designated meeting point, and the plane left without them, he said. Their whereabouts remain unknown.The women are sisters-in-law from Edmonton.

Kanye West and his Donda Academy school are being sued by two fired teachers who claim multiple education, health and safety codes were violated, even insisting that bullying ran rampant and that students were forced to eat lunch on the floor. The women both say they were fired as retaliation for sounding the alarm on the alleged violations, according to TMZ, who obtained the lawsuit. Among other things, the two women claim that students were given one lunch option every single day: sushi. Other than water, they were not allowed to bring any outside food or drink into the school, all but ensuring they only ate sushi.

Georgia teenager Trent Lehrkamp spoke out for the first time after a group of vicious bullies left him clinging to life on a hospital ventilator in a case that has garnered national headlines."I'm alive and doing well," Lehrkamp, 19, told local news station WSAV this week. "Just know it's going to be a long time for me to get over this, through the trauma, but one day hopefully within the next few months or so, I might be back."He added, "Justice will be served." Lehrkamp is currently recovering at an out-of-state facility.Three teenagers left Lehrkamp at a local hospital March 21 soaked in urine and covered in spray paint after he was allegedly forced to drink large amounts of alcohol and fed drugs, according to a Glynn County Police report.GEORGIA TEENS IN TRENT LEHRKAMP TORTURE IDENTIFIED BY POLICE, FAMILY ASKS FOR PRAYERSIn coastal Georgia’s Glynn County, police are investigating videos of a teenager being tortured and humiliated at a party.

Kanye West and his Donda Academy are being sued. Two former teachers at the 45-year-old rapper's private, Christian school are suing him, his school and three of its directors for code violations, according to court docs obtained by ET.ET has reached out to Donda Academy for comment.

PHILADELPHIA - Authorities say an off-duty security guard at Philadelphia's Fashion District was shot in the leg while walking to a bus stop on Tuesday. The 39-year-old shooting victim told police that he was walking along the 800 block of Filbert Street around 7:30 when he heard a gunshot and noticed he was struck in the left thigh. Responding officers from the Philadelphia Police Department drove the victim to Jefferson Hospital where he was placed in stable condition. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESChief Inspector Scott Small told reporters the victim believed the gunshot came from a group of teens or young adults behind him that scattered in different directions. Investigators are unsure if the victim was the intended target of the shooting or if the bullet was stray. No arrests have been reported. While the victim is expected to physically recover, police fear the shooting could have been worse due to the heavy foot traffic that is normally around the Fashion District on pleasant spring nights.

LOS ANGELES - A woman who allegedly stole a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department cruiser led deputies on a chase Monday from Compton to Orange County, where she was eventually boxed in by other vehicles and taken into custody.The pursuit of a suspect driving a stolen police cruiser led authorities on a high-speed pursuit from South Los Angeles to Orange County.Reports of the chase came in around 1:30 p.m. in the area of West Rancho Dominguez, an incorporated area in LA County.

People visit a makeshift memorial at the entrance of The Covenant School on April 1, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. Three students and three adults were killed by the 28-year-old shooter.

DELAWARE COUNTY - A day at the park ended with one 13-year-old being stabbed and another 13-year-old in custody after police say a girl was attacked over the weekend.The girl, 13, was found stabbed in the back and stomach when police responded to a park on the 400 block of Kent Lane in Delaware County Sunday evening.The victim, along with witnesses, told police she was stabbed twice by a 13-year-old boy in an unprovoked attack.

RCMP says he would support additional laws that allow police to further crack down on foreign interference in Canada, as well as ways to further collaborate with intelligence officials on the issue.But Mike Duheme adds multiple investigations remain underway that he’s confident will lead to criminal charges, though he did not give specifics.“When you ask any police officers if we can have more laws — if we can have additional legislation that would ensure that it would assist us as we move forward, but also ensure the safety of the public and of Canadians — I’d say yes, I’m favorable for that and very supportive,” Duheme told Mercedes Stephenson in an interview that aired Sunday on The West Block. Read more: On foreign interference, Canada playing ‘whack-a-mole’ to China’s chess: expert He pointed to the case in November where a Hydro-Quebec employee was charged with alleged espionage on behalf of China as an example of a successful RCMP investigation into foreign interference.“We were successful in laying charges against this individual, and we have other files that are moving forward that we will be successful in laying charges,” said Duheme, who was previously deputy commissioner of federal policing and oversaw foreign interference investigations as part of his mandate.Duheme would not say if those charges were related to the alleged Chinese-operated “police stations” the RCMP says it is investigating in the Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal areas.He said those investigations are ongoing and urged anyone with information to reach out to investigators.

The long-anticipated Mass Casualty Commission’s final report into the 2020 Nova Scotia shooting highlighted significant systemic issues within Canada’s national police force and called for widespread changes.