Toronto man in $36M cross-border drug operation sentenced in Windsor to 16 years in prison

A Toronto man sentenced on Tuesday for his involvement in a $36-million cross-border cocaine and meth operation told Windsor, Ont., court he needed to get arrested as a way out of the criminal activity. Superior Court Justice Paul Howard sentenced Marvin Watson to 16 years in prison, which was a joint submission by the Crown and defence. He’s set…

Primetime Emmy nominations are out. Here’s who’s vying for TV’s top prize

Canadian Seth Rogen nabbed two major nominations as the 77th Primetime Emmy Award nominations were announced in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Rogen created the Apple TV+ comedy The Studio, which was among the nominees for outstanding comedy series along with Abbott Elementary, The Bear, Hacks, Nobody Wants This, Only Murders in the Building, Shrinking and What We…

Sheshatshiu youth walk 130 km to protect Gull Island

Some Sheshatshiu youth are making their way to Gull Island to protest the upcoming mega project — by foot. (Regan Burden/CBC) Several younger residents of Sheshatshui are taking it upon themselves to have their concerns heard over the proposed hydroelectric project at Gull Island. “I want our government to treat the youth like they matter….

Wildfire-related power outages have now hit 6 First Nations in northwestern Ontario

People in Pikangikum First Nation are using the little fuel they have left to shine headlights into their homes as a way to escape the darkness as wildfires continue to damage hydro poles in the region. The remote Ojibway community in northwestern Ontario has been without power for three days. Five other communities in the region — Deer…

Scientists have detected the largest black hole merger yet. What it is and why it matters

It was a bump in the night. A big one. On Nov. 23, 2023, waves from a colossal merger of two black holes reached Earth and were picked up by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration, a group that detects these sort of mergers through gravitational waves. And these black holes were chunky, coming in at 100 and 140…

Australian woman walking ‘the length of the Earth’ will soon arrive in Canada

As It Happens7:41Australian woman walking ‘the length of the Earth’ will soon arrive in Canada When Lucy Barnard crosses the U.S. border into Canada in the coming weeks, it’ll have been a journey eight years in the making. The Australian writer, filmmaker and adventurer is on a mission to become the first woman to walk…

Two people behind bogus temp agencies that exploited asylum seekers sentenced to house arrest

Two people accused of running fraudulent temp agencies that exploited asylum seekers in Montreal have been sentenced to house arrest for 10 and 18 months.  Beatriz Adriana Guerrero Munoz, 45, and Hector Lopez Ramos, 51, appeared at the Court of Quebec in Montreal on Monday morning to receive the sentences their lawyers had agreed on with the…

Trump’s pivot on Ukraine shows he’s unwilling to put maximum pressure on Putin

As Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office on Monday and announced that NATO would be buying U.S. weapons and shipping them to Kyiv, it was a major pivot for the U.S. president and for an administration that just two weeks ago halted the supply of some military hardware, including air defence missiles which were…

Hailstorm hits Calgary, residents share photos of the aftermath

A fast-moving storm brought hail the size of golf balls, winds above 90 km/h, damage to trees and localized power outages into the Calgary area on Sunday. Northeast Calgary experienced wind gusts of up to 93 km/h around 8 p.m., according to Environment Canada. Kyle Brittain, a freelance climate journalist, told CBC’s The Homestretch on…

Jim Clancy, longtime Blue Jays starting pitcher and 1982 all-star, dead at 69

Jim Clancy, who made his Major League debut during the Toronto Blue Jays’ 1977 expansion season and spent 12 seasons with the club as a key member of its starting rotation, has died at 69. The Blue Jays confirmed Clancy’s death in a social media post Monday. A cause of death was not given. Clancy…