A picture taken from the Israeli side of the border with Lebanon shows Israeli shelling near a southern Lebanese village in November 2023. Photo: AFP Beirut: At least 12 paramedics from civil defence teams were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their centre in Duris, a village in Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, media reported. According … Read more
Ambulance Victoria has clinched an in-principle agreement with the state’s paramedics for a 17% pay hike and smoother working conditions, concluding months of negotiations and a prolonged industrial dispute. Since February 2023, the paramedics have been negotiating for an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA), ABC News reported. Victoria’s ambulance service have been under severe strain due … Read more
WARNING: This story contains graphic images of a leg injury. Last week, George Mandl, an American vacationing in Montreal, took his eight-year-old son Max to Parc Jean-Drapeau for a swim. It was a hot afternoon, and Max played on an inflatable structure anchored in the park’s man-made lake. As his legs dangled in the blue-green darkness, … Read more
A British Columbia man was airlifted to a Calgary hospital with “significant injuries” Thursday after fending off a grizzly bear attack on a mountainside in the Rocky Mountains near the B.C.-Alberta border, according to RCMP and wildlife officials. Police said a father and son were tracking a bear west of Highway 43 south of Elkford, B.C., when the 36-year-old son was “attacked suddenly by … Read more
