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VICTORIA — The City of Victoria has terminated a city employee who cut the head off a dead cougar in November. The city said in a statement that it had “concluded its investigation process into this incident and we can confirm the individual responsible is no longer employed by the city.” The city confirmed the employee had been fired. The city worker had initially been given a written warning after the head of a dead cougar was cut off while the carcass was being stored in a city facility. Victoria police shot and killed the cougar on Nov. 21, 2023,...

A white rhino calf was born at the Toronto Zoo this week. Zoo officials say a rhino named Sabi gave birth to a healthy calf just before 8 a.m. on Thursday. … White rhinos in the wild are listed as “near threatened” on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species.

Portland Thorns FC head coach Rhian Wilkinson reacts after Portland defeated the Kansas City Current in the NWSL soccer championship match against the Kansas City Current, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, in Washington. Wilkinson resigned Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, just five weeks after she led the team to the championship. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)Canadian Rhian Wilkinson has resigned as the head coach of the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) at the request of the players following her "friendship" with a player, she said Friday."During my time as the Thorns coach, a player and I formed a...

Acclaimed Nova Scotia battle rapper Pat Stay was the victim of a fatal stabbing in downtown Halifax early Sunday. Halifax Regional Police say an autopsy has determined he was the victim of a homicide. Police said they were called to the 1600 block of Lower Water Street around 12:36 a.m. AT. Stay was taken to hospital, where he later died. Halifax Regional Police spokesperson Const. John MacLeod did not have any information about what led up to the stabbing or whether there were any witnesses. The Dartmouth, N.S., man was revered for his work in rap battles, where two rappers...

A sex worker in Nova Scotia is pursuing a claim for non-payment of services in small claims court, in a case she and her advocates hope will help shift the conversation about sex work in Canada. The woman at the centre of the case said she spent an evening with a client in January 2022. Afterwards, she realized she wasn't going to be paid when the PIN for the bank card he'd given her to withdraw money didn't work. "It feels pretty humiliating to not get paid after providing so much for someone. And it's also frustrating that we don't...

Canada could be on the cusp of a bizarre new era in which federal regulators will be empowered to figure out whether our online porn is sufficiently Canadian — and levy the requisite punishments if it isn’t. Bill C-11 — the Liberal push to subject much of the internet to CRTC control — has passed the House of Commons with NDP and Bloc Québécois support. Absent any major revisions by the Senate, the likes of Netflix, YouTube and even Instagram will soon be forced to subject their content to Canada’s famously onerous strictures on Canadian content. But less discussed is...

The Atlanta rapper known as Trouble was shot and killed in a suburb of the city on Sunday, authorities said. He was 34. The artist, whose name was Mariel Semonte Orr, was discovered by Rockdale County Sheriff's deputies who were called to the scene of a shooting in the nearby town of Conyers around 3:20 a.m. Sunday morning. Orr was transported to a local hospital where he later died. Officials said the rapper was visiting a woman at the apartment complex where she lived when he was allegedly shot once in the chest by another man, Jamichael Jones, 33. "It...

A young woman in New York had been having health issues for some time and when she finally was able to see a doctor, she was so relieved that she had a brief cry. “She has a rare disease so she’s been really struggling to find care,” big sister Camille Johnson said in a tweet thread. “She got emotional because she feels frustrated and helpless. One tear in and they charged her $40 without addressing why she is crying, trying to help, doing any evaluation, any prescription, nothing.” “They charged her more for crying than they did for a vision...

In yet another move that figures to be more nails in the coffin towards the eventual death of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, the brand announced today that it was bringing the Ladies of the WNBA into the 2022 issue.The Woke Illustrated swimsuit issue has made it a priority over the last several years to be one massive ball of inclusion to make all 500 people happy across a variety of causes. Now it’s time for all 50 WNBA fans to buy the new edition that hits newsstands May 19.“We represent a variety of things: of course women, women of...

The Department of National Defence says an investigation is underway after four cadets died in an incident involving a vehicle at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ont. The incident happened shortly after 2 a.m. Friday on Point Frederick, a peninsula at Canadian Forces Base Kingston that sits between Kingston Harbour and Navy Bay on the St. Lawrence River. Investigators were seen Friday examining the road and shoreline in boats and on foot. Frontenac Paramedics said four patients were treated at the scene but none of them were taken to hospital. The Royal Military College (RMC) is located on the...

Not everyone would be willing to confess their sexual secrets to a room full of strangers. That's where Kim TallBear and her Indigenous erotica event, Tipi Confessions, comes in."I confess: my first lesbian experience was with a white person. Even if she couldn't give any land back, she did give me many orgasms," says TallBear, reading an anonymous confession written and submitted by an audience member at a show during Toronto's 2019 Queer Film Festival. The crowd hoots, hollers and cheers.Tipi Confessions is a live theatre event, with its co-creators and hosts reflecting on sexual desire and sex positivity through...

Amy Schumer implied she was stepping away from her active career for a 'month' break as she shared an Instagram snap with her son Gene on Thursday morning. The 40-year-old comedian wrapped her arms around her two-year-old little one in the peaceful photo, and wrote: 'Out of office reply for the next month. Thanks.' Her latest post follows a social media share on Wednesday morning where she admitted she was 'still triggered and traumatized' by the 'disturbing' moment when Will Smith stormed onto the stage and slapped Chris Rock during Sunday night's 94th annual Academy Awards ceremony. Amy followed up...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Thursday that two of his country’s top security officials had been dismissed from their roles as generals for being “traitors.” “Regarding antiheroes. Now, I do not have time to deal with all the traitors. But gradually they will all be punished,” Zelensky said in a speech. “That is why the ex-chief of the Main Department of Internal Security of the Security Service of Ukraine Naumov Andriy Olehovych and the former head of the Office of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kherson region Kryvoruchko Serhiy Oleksandrovych are no longer generals,” he said. Zelensky...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - After filing for bankruptcy, the now-defunct Black News Channel is unable to pay some of its employees their earned wages, said a spokesperson. The channel, which was based in Tallahassee but broadcast nationwide, touted 24/7 programming dedicated to covering minority communities. It had been operating for roughly two years when on Friday its President and CEO Princell Hair announced to employees in an email that the company would be immediately ceasing live operations and filing for bankruptcy. Employees did not receive their scheduled paychecks that day. BNC spokesperson Tim Buckman told WCTV that payroll deposits that...

The EU will freeze the assets of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, as part of a sanctions package set for approval Friday, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell confirmed on Friday. They will not, however, be banned from traveling to the EU, according to four diplomats. "This is an important step," Borrell said in brief remarks, noting that the only other world leaders under EU sanctions are Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus. The move comes as the EU faces pressure from Ukraine to ratchet up its penalties on Moscow, with Russian...

Saskatoon police and conservation officers remove a moose from inside Sylvia Fedoruk School in Evergreen after it crashed through a window. The moose was tranquilized and is being relocated. No students or staff were injured. A moose crashed through a window at Sylvia Fedoruk School in Saskatoon’s Evergreen neighbourhood Thursday morning.Just before 9 a.m., the female moose broke through the window of the school’s community room, located between Sylvia Fedoruk and St. Nicholas Catholic School, Saskatoon Public Schools said in a release.Students and staff involved in a before-school program operated by an external provider were in the room at the...

What? You expected us not to make a juvenile joke in the headline of this story? Listen, most of us around here are still amused by bodily functions, so this shouldn’t be unexpected. What was unexpected for a Halton Police officer earlier this week was a contractor who failed to tightly secure the trailer hitch ball on their truck’s drawbar. According to a video posted to Twitter by the attending officer, the truck and trailer in question were bounding along Dundas Street when the gendarmes spotted something amiss at the hitching point. Closer inspection revealed the ball on which the...

A music video poking fun at officers sparked a country-wide search within the Royal Canadian Navy for the culprit who made the parody as well as threats to sailors that even watching the spoof would result in punishment. The video emerged on YouTube in February 2020 after news reports that the second-in-command of HMCS Calgary was relieved of his duties after disabling the smoke and heat detectors in the warship’s wardroom so he could smoke. The disabling of those safety systems took place less than two weeks after a fire broke out in the engine room of HMCS Calgary, causing...

Canada's women's soccer team's magical Olympic run has finished with a gold-medal victory. After back-to-back bronze medals at the last two Games, Canada defeated Sweden 3-2 on penalty kicks in a thrilling finish to win the gold medal in Tokyo.

He told you to “Set it and forget it,” but the world will never forget Ron Popeil. Popeil, an inventor and the face of infomercials for “as-seen-on-TV” products like Showtime Rotisserie and Pocket Fisherman, has died. He was 86. His family told TMZ that Popeil had a medical emergency on Tuesday and died Wednesday morning surrounded by family at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Popeil was best known for the “Set it and forget it” catchphrase used to sell Showtime Rotisserie in late-night infomercials. Long before air fryers became the kitchen appliance du jour, the countertop rotisserie appliance took the...