Young people wave colored flags reading "Peace" as they form a symbolic human wall along the Rio Grande, which marks the border between Mexico and the U.S. in Ciudad Juarez, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. Responding to plans by President Donald Trump to build a wall along the length of the U.S.-Mexico border, more than a thousand people lined the Mexican bank of the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juarez Friday, holding hands and carrying flowers.
Jyoti, right, and Kiran Matharoo, the two Canadian sisters detained in Nigeria, deliver a scripted statement in video posted online Thursday. Video surfaced online Thursday apparently showing two Toronto sisters, believed to be detained in Nigeria, delivering a scripted apology to a billionaire.
A Canadian man punched a cougar in the face to stop it from attacking his dog in a wooded area near a fast food chain in Whitecourt, central Alberta, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said on Wednesday. William Gibb, 31, from Red Deer, Alberta, had stopped at a Tim Hortons outlet, a popular Canadian restaurant chain on his 600-kilometer drive to Grand Prairie on the evening of Dec. 26 and let his dog out for a walk, Whitecourt RCMP Sergeant Tom Kalis said.
... throughout - Nova Scotia saw it all in 2016. "It's not your grandparent's weather anymore. It's a new weather and weird, wild and wacky," Environment Canada's David Phillips told the Chronicle Herald earlier in the year. It appears he was right. ...
Yes, dear optimists, the days will now grow longer, bringing more solar energy each day, warming us steadily until we reach glorious summer, right? Dead wrong. The weather will keep on growing colder even as the sun pumps more energy into our lives, and David Phillips can prove it to you two ways.