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Netflix suffered its first subscriber loss in more than a decade, causing its shares to plunge 25 per cent in extended trading amid concerns that the pioneering streaming service may have already seen its best days. The company’s customer base fell by 200,000 subscribers during the January-March period, according to its quarterly earnings report released […]

Breadcrumb Trail Links Local News Blanchet says he doesn’t know enough about the new plan to offer a precise opinion. Author of the article: The Canadian Press Patrice Bergeron Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet speaks in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Feb. 28, 2022. Photo by Blair Gable /REUTERS Article […]

Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner made campaign-style stops in Parry Sound and Elmvale on Tuesday. Schreiner met with residents to highlight the Green party’s Affordability Action Plan. With inflation causing soaring prices from housing to gas, affordability is top-of-mind for many voters. “The election gimmicks and handouts the other parties are offering will not solve […]

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) foresees deep economic contractions for Russia and Ukraine, the protagonists of the war that has further slowed down the world economic recovery. For Ukraine, the recipient of Russian attacks, economists at the IMF they project a 35% collapse in their GDP this year. “Even if the war ends soon, the […]

Breadcrumb Trail Links Local News City economist Felicia Muthardy said more units completed means more funds are coming in through taxation. More construction projects in Edmonton — mainly new homes — began and finished construction last year than the city anticipated. Photo by David Bloom /post media file Article content New construction and rising property […]

Breadcrumb Trail Links politics Community and Social Services Minister Jason Luan. Photo by Gavin Young /post media file Article content The government will adopt the Alberta ombudsman’s recent recommendations to help fix a provincial disability benefit appeals process, but a frontline advocate says a separate regulatory change will create more unfairness. Advertisement 2 This advertisement […]

A team at the University of Waterloo is working on research described as “the evolution of the internet,” in part through a grant from Meta, the parent company of Facebook. Inside a third floor lab at the Davis Center on campus, third year software engineering student Daekun Kim showed off a system that allows him […]

The Health Secretary reported this Tuesday 1,438 new Covid-19 infections and 24 deaths from this disease reported in the last 24 hours. According to data from the daily technical report on the progress of the coronavirus pandemic in Mexicothe official number of deaths amounted to 323,973, while the accumulated number of confirmed cases is 5 […]

A rare opportunity to own one of the most iconic props in movie history has popped up, but be prepared to burn a hole in your wallet for it. The prop ax had a pivot role in some of “The Shining’s” scariest scenes in 1980 and is now up for sale at UK-based Paul Fraser’s […]

Thousands of Sunwing passengers are still hoping they’ll be able to salvage their holidays down south as the airline tries to deal with system wide technical problems affecting it’s check-in and boarding procedures. As the chaos and confusion continues at airports across Canada, some passengers are complaining their trips are being cut short by days, […]

Two books from New Spain, from the 17th and 18th centuries, stolen during the US intervention in Mexico (1847-1848), as well as a batch of pre-Columbian pieces from various Mesoamerican cultures, were returned to Mexico through the Secretary of Foreign Relations (SRE) and placed under the protection of the National Institute of Anthropology and History […]

More than two dozen co-workers are thousands of dollars richer thanks to a Lotto Max draw on April Fool’s Day. The group of 26 people pooled their money for a ticket purchased in Richmond, BC, and ended up winning a Maxmillions prize. That prize was $250,000, the BC Lottery Corporation said in a statement Tuesday. […]

A local musician and doctor are teaming up to raise funds for humanitarian relief in Ukraine. Dr. Darren Markland, an emergency room physician, posts landscape photos he takes on Twitter, some of which are shots of Edmonton’s river valley. “I take pictures of things that are beautiful and I’ve fallen in, by accident, with artists […]

A family pet is dead and a home is badly damaged after a Tuesday afternoon fire in the Kitchener’s Stanley Park neighborhood. Firefighters say they removed seven dogs and cats from the home. The pets were found inside, unconscious from smoke inhalation and had to be resuscitated. Sadly one of the cats did not survive, […]

À un reporter qui demandait si les États-Unis procéderaient à un nouvel envoi d’artillerie, le président Joe Biden a répondu oui, sans toutefois donner des précisions sur l’ampleur de l’aide. Les sources des deux médias affirment cependant que ce nouveau train de mesures devrait être comparable à celui de 800 millions de dollars américains (un peu […]

Article content We’ve seen a few players get popped from our center ice location at Scotiabank, but never a guy actually pops the question in the press box. Article content Tuesday morning, prior to the Leafs-Flyers game, superfan Mark Fera completed a clandestine operation to get his girlfriend, Rita Marini, to perch with help from […]

The Avian Influenza is creating some cause for concern as there have been two confirmed cases reported in the province. One of those cases was a bald eagle that was brought into Wildlife Haven back on April 10. Zoe Nakata, executive director of Wildlife Haven, said if birds are to catch the influenza – which […]

Article content Windsor’s own Media City Film Festival is going to Hollywood. Article content Media City, which for 25 years has shown film and digital art projects from around the world, will screen one of its own films May 2 in Los Angeles at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Media City artistic director Oona […]

For the second time this week, a controlled burn got out of hand in the Saskatoon area. Just before 3:00 pm, the Saskatoon Fire Department received a report of the fire burning along Highway 60, south of Valley Road. Upon arrival, firefighters found a large grass fire moving quickly driven by wind gusts up to […]

For the second time this week, a controlled burn got out of hand in the Saskatoon area. Just before 3:00 pm, the Saskatoon Fire Department received a report of the fire burning along Highway 60, south of Valley Road. Upon arrival, firefighters found a large grass fire moving quickly driven by wind gusts up to […]

Breadcrumb Trail Links Ottawa Senators Hockey Drake Batherson Photo by Tony Caldwell /postmedia Article content There may be some familiar faces on the Team Canada bench next month at the IIHF world championship next month in Finland. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content While DJ Smith […]

Liverpool thrashing ’embarrassing’ & ‘humiliating’ – Rangnick Manchester United interim manager Ralf Rangnick described his side’s heavy Premier League defeat by Liverpool at Anfield as “humiliating”. United, who missed the chance to move level with fourth-placed Tottenham in the race for a Champions League place, dropped to sixth. “It’s embarrassing, it’s disappointing, maybe even humiliating,” […]

Attention : les propos rapportés dans ce texte pourraient choquer certains lecteurs en raison de leur caractère violent. Les membres du jury ont affronté toute l’horreur du drame. En plus des témoignages à la Cour, la poursuite a mis en preuve les déclarations écrites de certains témoins. Le récit des événements fait à la police par […]

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. – Lethbridge business owners looking to add security measures to their store may have to wait, as one local roll shutter company says they’re dealing with major supply chain shortages. One downtown business owner has waited over three months to have roll shutters installed following a string of break-ins last year, leaving him […]

After deliberating for about three and a half hours, the jury at the second degree murder trial of Robert Ashley Williams has returned with a verdict of guilty as charged. The jury started deliberations at around 4:15 pm Tuesday after hearing the closing addresses from both the Crown and the defense along with the charge […]

Serge Fiori is a Quebec music icon himself, as lead singer of the retro art-rock band Harmonium. Now he wants to use his insider status of him to open a window onto the behind-the-scenes of the entire province’s art scene, and more. Fiori is launching a series of web interviews with fellow Quebec artists. In […]

Albert Einstein famously once said that if he had to live his life over again, he’d choose to be a plumber. Many in the industry say he wasn’t wrong — it’s a lucrative job, and a much sought after service, these days. “You can make six figures and up,” said Montreal plumber Ben Levine. In […]