Meet Leo Koretz, a Jazz Age fraudster whose audacious schemes made Charles Ponzi look like a piker Leo Koretz with Cook County State’s Attorney Robert Crowe after he was brought back to Chicago to face charges of theft and running a confidence game. (Author Collection) Francis Hiltz, the owner of a Halifax tailor shop, was … Read more
‘We stand up for international law, and we will abide by all the regulations and rulings of the international courts. This is just who we are as Canadians,’ Trudeau said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a news conference in Sharon, Ontario, on Thursday November 21, 2024.Photo by Chris Young /The Canadian Press Recommended Videos … Read more
The condo corporation provided ‘security system video recordings which substantiate’ that his guests took deliveries from the lobby shortly before complaints were made A Toronto condominium owner has been ordered to stop his guests from stealing other residents’ food orders from the lobby.Photo by Paul Frangipane /Bloomberg A Toronto condominium owner has been ordered to … Read more
The man President-elect Donald Trump would go on to tap as his “border czar” spent the last several years making appearances on some of the most extreme right-wing media outlets in the country — including a program hosted by an Adolf Hitler-admiring QAnon conspiracist — and promising to implement a brutal regime of mass deportations … Read more
LOADINGERROR LOADING Legendary Watergate reporter and author Bob Woodward openly chuckled when asked by CNN’s Boris Sanchez if he thought President-elect Donald Trump had a “cohesive strategy” when it came to his controversial Cabinet picks. “Do you think there’s a cohesive strategy behind these picks?” Sanchez asked Woodward. Woodward just laughed. Sanchez expanded on the … Read more
LOADINGERROR LOADING President-elect Donald Trump tapped Pam Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, as his new choice to lead the Justice Department on Thursday. The decision came just hours after former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R), a fellow Floridian, withdrew his name from consideration amid a growing scandal over an ethics investigation into claims of … Read more
The two ski areas open on the heels of Whistler’s Blackcomb Mountain, which opened on Thursday Whistler Blackcomb opened Blackcomb Mountain on Nov. 21, a day earlier than scheduled, due to plentiful snow.Photo by Whistler Blackcomb/Handout Get ready for ski and snowboard season. Two North Shore ski resorts are set to open this weekend, joining … Read more
Steve Shand and Harshkumar Patel are accused of helping people cross the Canada-U.S. border on several occasions, once leading to the deaths of a family of four Harshkumar Patel in Elk River, Minn., and undated photo released by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows Steve Shand.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — A prosecutor … Read more
The petitioner appears to be ‘inspired by conspiracy theories,’ one mayor said, adding that many of the residents in her suburb are ‘furious’ about the city’s plan The skyline of the city of Montreal.Photo by Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press/File MONTREAL — Municipal officials have opted to end water fluoridation on the Island of Montreal in … Read more
Dan Fumano: Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has made his first public ask of the new B.C. government: Hurry up and dissolve the park board. A jogger in New Brighton Park on Thursday as Mayor Ken Sim tried to jolt the province into acting fast on his plan to abolish the park board and hand parks … Read more
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