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EXPLAINER: Here is why crowd surges can kill people
November 06, 2021 - 8:37 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — The crowd deaths at a Houston music festival added even more names to the long list of people who have been crushed at a major event.
Royals can expect 'deferential' Canadian media coverage, says expert
January 14, 2020 - 1:12 PM

Jeffrey Dvorkin remembers returning home to the Annex in downtown Toronto to find his quiet neighbourhood transformed by a swarm of paparazzi, reporters, police and security. At the centre of the pandemonium was none other than Prince Harry, who at the time, was courting the "Suits" actress then known as Meghan Markle.
PM Prep-Segue
October 08, 2019 - 11:58 AM

'BIG BANG THEORY' GETS SHOUT OUT TO NOBEL PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENT
Melania Trump cuts ribbon on reopened Washington Monument
September 19, 2019 - 11:12 AM

WASHINGTON - First lady Melania Trump cut the ribbon Thursday as the Washington Monument reopened to the public for the first time in three years.
Starring inmates, 'O.G' puts incarceration under a new lens
April 26, 2018 - 8:01 PM

NEW YORK - More than 120 incarcerated men and dozens of prison guards play roles large and small in Madeleine Sackler's "O.G.," a drama believed to be the first fiction film ever made entirely within the walls of a maximum security prison.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo

Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Manitoba government plans to lift ban on homegrown recreational cannabis
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is planning to end its ban on homegrown recreational cannabis — a move that would leave Quebec as the only province with such a restriction. "We're just allowing Manitobans to have the same

Kamloops council to expand tax exemptions for new rental builds
Developers have more land to choose from if they want to cut costs on new rental buildings in Kamloops. The City is looking to expand a tax exemption program to span massive swaths of Kamloops in order to encourage development. Previously r

EXPLAINER: Here is why crowd surges can kill people