Month: June 2020

Quelques intrigantes photos de Matt Damon sur le tournage d’ “Elysium” ont fait leur apparition en ligne… Quel est ce harnachement métallico-futuriste que porte un Matt Damon rasé de près et visiblement pas au mieux sur le tournage d’Elysium, le nouveau projet SF du réalisateur Neill Blomkamp ? On l’ignore pour le moment, de même…

OTTAWA — When the Liberals introduced no-fee, expedited pardons for simple cannabis possession, the federal government estimated up to 250,000 people could be eligible.  Updated Parole Board of Canada (PBC) numbers show 436 pardon applications have been received as of April 3.  Of those applications, 238 have been approved for cannabis record suspensions.  The PBC…

KELOWNA, B.C. — A B.C. nursing student alleges she suffered physical and emotional injuries at the hands of an RCMP officer after her boyfriend called emergency services to request a health check. Mona Wang alleges Cpl. Lacey Browning’s conduct was “abusive and repetitive in the extreme” after the officer found Wang lying in a state…

OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s accusation that a Bloc Quebecois MP is a racist has boiled over into a second day of tense exchanges in Ottawa. Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet defended the actions of Bloc MP Alain Therrien, whom Singh called a racist for blocking a motion Singh wanted to present Wednesday on systemic…

S’il doit renoncer à diriger le remake de “Highlander”, le réalisateur Justin Lin a en revanche rencontré James Cameron et Arnold Schwarzenegger pour évoquer le prochain Terminator. Les choses roulent presque trop bien pour Justin Lin, auréolé du gros succès de Fast Five. Retenu par Summit pour réaliser le remake de Highlander, le monsieur est…

OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s accusation that a Bloc Quebecois MP is a racist has boiled over into a second day of tense exchanges in Ottawa. Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet defended the actions of Bloc MP Alain Therrien, whom Singh called a racist for blocking a motion Singh wanted to present Wednesday on systemic…

TORONTO — Ontario elementary students will be taught a new math curriculum starting in September that incorporates learning to code, expanded learning on financial literacy, and a return to memorizing multiplication tables. Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced the new curriculum Tuesday and defended rolling it out in the middle of a pandemic, which will likely…

Click:Automatic tea bag packing machine An officer has been suspended in relation to an online video that appears to show him roughing up a man in a town west of Toronto, but the local police chief says he has no choice but to leave him on the payroll until the appropriate processes play out. Halton…

VANCOUVER — Ports along the West Coast of Canada and the United States were quiet Friday as workers with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union stopped operations to support racial equality and social justice. A statement from the union said the eight-hour action was to honour Juneteenth, the celebration of the emancipation of slaves in…

OTTAWA — A Conservative MP from Calgary has fired a summer student working in his office following allegations that someone stole campaign data from party leadership contender Erin O’Toole. Greg McLean — one of dozens of MPs who have endorsed O’Toole — made the announcement in a terse statement circulated Tuesday. “Upon learning of a breach…