Authorities have canceled Independence Day celebrations and there is widespread concern about missile attacks, but people in Kyiv are taking a defiant tone and turning out in droves to see an unusual sight: a collection of damaged Russian missiles, tanks and other armored vehicles. Damaged military hardware has been erected along the city’s main street by the Ukrainian army in an attempt to fool Russian soldiers who thought they would seize the capital in a few days last February and hold a victory parade there....

UPDATE: 11:40 a.m The BC Highway Patrol confirms one person is dead and another is in serious condition after a fiery crash south of Merritt on the Coquihalla Highway. Two semis collided near the Comstock exit early this morning, resulting in a large fire, says BCHP spokesman Cpl. Mike Halskoff. “According to the first information, a semi rear-ended the second one, which was destroyed on the highway,” Halskov says. The crash happened at about 6 a....

Long-Term Care Secretary Paul Calandra said the legislation would free up acute care beds in hospitals. According to the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), there were 5,930 “alternate level of care” patients — those deemed to no longer need acute care — in the hospital on Aug. 17, of whom 40 per cent were waiting for space in long-term care. While the bill’s text says hospitals must make a “reasonable effort” to obtain patients’ consent, it would theoretically allow patients to be transferred to a temporary long-term care home without their consent while they wait for a bed at their preferred facility....

Prime Minister Andrew Furey joined the chorus of public condemnation following an incident involving Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland on Friday. Videos of the incident have been widely shared on social media. They show Freeland standing face-to-face in the lobby of a building as she heads into a nearby elevator in her hometown of rural Alberta. A man can be seen shouting profanities at the woman and calling her a ‘traitor’....

Le Service de police de Sherbrooke (SPS) a été appelé vers 20 h 30 à l’intersection des rues Allard et Galvin concernant un véhicule qui aurait heurté des arbres. Le témoin sur les lieux a déclaré à la police que le conducteur fautif “poursuivait sa route avec ses phares éteints, quatre pneus crevés et de la fumée provenant de son véhicule”. Le suspect a finalement été appréhendé sur Moulton Hill Road....

Click the arrow below for more coverage of Kiely Rodni, a Northern California teenager who was possibly found by a group of volunteer divers after she had been missing since early August Develop all A more than two-week search for missing 16-year-old Kiely Rodni came to an end Sunday when dive teams with a volunteer search and rescue organization said they found her body and vehicle submerged in the water near where she disappeared....

PHOTO DE JOURNAL / via REUTERS La Première ministre finlandaise Sanna Marin a été testée négative à la drogue. INTERNATIONAL – De quoi apaiser un peu plus la polémique. La Première ministre finlandaise Sanna Marin a finalement été testée négative à un test de dépistage de drogue qu’elle a effectué pour “dissiper les soupçons”, a annoncé son entourage lundi 22 août, après la révélation d’une vidéo la montrant en train de faire la fête....

Deux jours après les insultes, lancées par l’artiste franco-américain Marc Rebillet à l’encontre d’Emmanuel Macron sur la scène du Touquet Music Beach Festival, la polémique reste vive. “Entre la provocation et l’insulte gratuite, il y a un saut qui a été fait […] par cet artiste”, a réagi le maire du Touquet, Daniel Fasquelle chez nos confrères de RMC. “Je condamne ce comportement qui est complètement déplacé, qui n’a rien à faire dans un festival de musique que ce soit au Touquet ou ailleurs”, poursuit Daniel Fasquelle....

Analysis of official Labor figures shows that since 2016, when the Tory leadership hopeful was responsible for the discharge of raw sewage more than doubled from 14.7 per overflow in 2016 to 29.3 in 2021. This coincided with £80m of sewage screens being cut as part of a £235m Tory ax to the Environment Agency (EA) budget, which it called “efficiency savings”. As Environment Secretary, Ms Truss justified the cuts by saying “there are ways we can make savings as a department” citing better use of technology and interagency working....

Paramedics were called after he was found unresponsive under the High Level Bridge, in Gateshead, last night. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Read more: North Shields double death now being treated as ‘murder-suicide’ by detectives Northumbria Police confirmed his death is not being treated as suspicious. A spokeswoman said: ‘Just before 6.45pm. yesterday, we received a report from paramedics of a sudden death under the High Level Bridge....

Emergency services were called to the area of ​​Albert and Booth streets at 5:20 p.m. They found an adult male with a gunshot wound. He was taken to hospital in serious but stable condition. Ottawa police say they responded to the call on Lorne Avenue, south of Albert Street near Booth. Witnesses in the area tell CTV News they heard several gunshots. Police say there is no threat to the public....

Dorsey, who stepped down as Twitter’s chief executive in November and left the board in May, has been subpoenaed for documents and communications related to Musk’s April deal to buy the company and spam accounts on the platform. pursuant to a copy of the subpoena. Dorsey, who is CEO of payments processor Block Inc, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Block was founded by Dorsey and changed its name last year from Square Inc( SQ....

More than 160,000 Consumers Energy customers were without power in West and Mid-Michigan.

A Manitoba RCMP officer has been charged following a 2019 arrest in which a Mountie pressed his knee into a man’s neck at the Winnipeg airport while the man repeatedly yelled “I can’t breathe.” Manitoba police said in a news release Monday that there are reasonable grounds to believe a criminal offense has occurred. Const. Eric Gerain is charged with assault and ordered to appear in provincial court on September 26....

. – 29.08.2022 12:34 (Akt. 29.08.2022 12:34) Santander zahlt nun die Kreditzinsen zurück. ©REUTERS/Sergio Moraes Die Santander Consumer Bank zahlt Sollzinsen, die sie ihren Kunden während einer gesetzlich angeordneten, corona-pandemiebedingten Kreditstundung verrechnet hat, zurück. Nach einem OGH-Urteil diesbezüglich von Anfang 2022 haben sich der Verein für Konsumenteninformation (VKI) und die Bank außergerichtlich geeinigt, teilte der VKI am Montag mit. Der VKI startet nun eine Sammelaktion für die Betroffenen, sie läuft bis Ende des Jahres....

Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register MADRID, Aug 22 (Reuters) – Spanish health authorities approved a new monkeypox vaccination strategy on Monday, allowing more people to be vaccinated with smaller doses amid scarce supplies, the health ministry said in a statement. Each dose of Bavarian Nordic’s ( BAVA.CO ) Imvanex vaccine, the only monkeypox vaccine currently available, will be divided into five doses, with exceptions for pregnant and immunocompromised people, the ministry said....

Public Security Minister Marco Mendicino says the federal government is considering its options for increasing security for politicians, adding that the harassment many face represents a threat to democracy. He says that as the security situation becomes “increasingly complex”, there is a need to “turn down the heat”. This comes after a video was posted online this weekend of Deputy Premier Chrystia Freeland being harassed in Alberta. The video shows a man shouting profanities at the minister in the lobby of the Grande Prairie, Alta city hall before she and her staff entered the elevator....