MANILA, Philippines: Singer and actress Angeline Quinto tied the knot with her non-showbiz partner Nonrev Daquina at Quiapo Church on Thursday. Quinto is a known Black Nazarene devotee. The bride — glowing in her mermaid style gown by Filipino designer Neric Beltran — walked down the aisle with baby Sylvio, …
Read More »Makeshift slaughterhouse in a residential garage points to growing concerns about illicit meat sales
Inside a garage in an established Edmonton neighbourhood, animals were being slaughtered and the meat was advertised for sale to consumers, a CBC News investigation has learned. Police entered the rented garage in the quiet residential Woodcroft community in February 2023. Images shared with CBC News show piles of goat …
Read More »P-pop groups BINI, G22 shine on Chinese idol show
P-pop girl group BINI appears on an episode of the Chinese surival show ‘Show It All.’/BINI via X MANILA, Philippines — P-pop girl groups BINI and G22 showed what live vocals and powerful dancing looks like in their recent appearance on the Chinese survival program “Show It All.” The two …
Read More »Honda to invest $15B to build 4 new EV plants in Ontario
Japanese automaker Honda will make a $15-billion electric vehicle investment in Ontario to build four new manufacturing plants in the province, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced Thursday. Trudeau and Ford say $5B shared investment will create growth for decades to come. Japanese automaker Honda will …
Read More »New truckers in Canada aren’t being trained well enough. How do we fix that?
There’s an “urgent” need to improve training for truck drivers, a new report suggests, and new drivers who have not received adequate training are making Canada’s roads less safe. Insurance Bureau of Canada VP hopes this is a ‘wake-up call’ to the trucking industry and oversight bodies. Twenty years ago, …
Read More »What could a $5B government loan program do? Turn Indigenous communities into powerful investors
Indigenous leaders say a new loan guarantee program from the federal government, announced last week in the 2024 budget, will be a huge boost for economic reconciliation. Why the new Indigenous loan guarantee program is a big deal. Downtown Toronto is a long way from most communities where the federal …
Read More »Predators take big bite out of declining Atlantic mackerel population
Predators ate at least twice as many Atlantic mackerel as commercial fishery landings in the decade leading up to Canada’s region-wide moratorium, according to new research by Canadian and American scientists. DFO ‘had almost no information’ on natural mortality before new study, says lead author. Predators ate at least twice …
Read More »Cebuanos rule Milo National Marathon Manila Leg
MANILA, Philippines: Cebuanos Florendo Lapiz and Lizane Abella ruled the men's and women's 42K categories, respectively, in the 2024 Milo National Marathon held along Roxas Boulevard on Sunday, April 28. Lapiz, who hails from Carcar, timed 2:42:33 to top the men's side while Abella of Minglanilla clocked 3:21:05 to emerge …
Read More »Edmonton Queer History: How a yearbook quote made national news back in 1985
Ian Paterson wanted to pen down a simple dream in his yearbook quote, to "eventually settle down in a quiet suburb with a tall, rich, hunky man with a bushy moustache." It seems simple now, but in 1985, when 2SLGBTQ+ rights were not what they are today and AIDS hysteria …
Read More »B.C. man captures video of 2 bear cubs waking from winter slumber
A winter walk paid off months later for a Prince George, B.C., family who captured footage of a family of bears waking up from hibernation. Serge Wolf lives on a rural property with his wife and two children in the north-central B.C. city, about 500 kilometres north of Vancouver. Wolf …
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