Unpublished Newswire

A drunk driver who killed a Somali immigrant and severely injured her daughter when he ran them over as they were walking across a Niagara Falls intersection, then fled the scene only to crash into two parked cars a short distance away, has been sentenced to eight years in prison. John Franco Bonaldo met friends at a restaurant on the evening of Nov. 16, 2024. The Ontario Court of Justice heard the 32-year-old consumed six pints of beer over four hours before getting behind the wheel at 12:42 a.m. “Every drunk driver is a potential killer. That this does not happen in most cases of...

Leslie Burns and her husband Michael have wintered in Tavernier, a small, laid-back community in the Florida Keys, since 2010. The Collingwood, Ont., couple doesn’t see themselves as tourists anymore. “We stay in a residential neighbourhood and do our best to blend in,” Leslie said from their long-term winter rental where the weather reached 21 degrees Celsius this week under “Windex-blue” skies. The retired couple is part of a formidable flock of snowbirds still wintering in the U.S. New border scrutiny and anger over the U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have thinned the flock....