Ottawa Fire Services (OFS) received a call from the Rideau Valley Soaring School around noon about one of their planes going down after leaking fuel. The aircraft crashed in a field near the intersection of South Gower Boundary Road and Rideau River Road, OFS said. The pilot, the only passenger, told firefighters at the scene that they were not injured. The plane suffered a broken wing, fire officials added. The fuel leak was minor and firefighters were able to extinguish it....

Températures élevées, vents violents et sécheresse historique : les conditions favorisent la survenue d’incendies. De nouveaux incendies ont principalement touché le sud-est de la France dimanche 31 juillet, avec 350 hectares incendiés dans le Gard où un pompier a été grièvement blessé et 35 hectares près de Marseille provoquant des fermetures partielles d’autoroutes. “Quatre pompiers ont été blessés”, a annoncé le ministre de l’Intérieur Gérald Darmanin dans un tweet au sujet de l’incendie qui s’est déclaré vers 15 heures....

The study, seen by the Guardian, was based on in-depth interviews with officers who policed ​​the streets. The officers spoke in confidence to academics from the University of Liverpool and served in forces in the north of England, including Cheshire, Cumbria, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire. Nationally, figures for England and Wales show that ethnic minorities were almost twice as likely to be fined as whites. An author of the study says the findings show that institutional racism likely influenced how pandemic powers were executed in some cases....

(Image via CPAC.) A national survey shows disapproval of the Trudeau government has reached new heights. A new Abacus Data survey of 2,400 Canadians shows disapproval of the federal government at 51 per cent, the highest since Trudeau was first elected in 2015. 51 per cent of respondents also have an unfavorable view of Trudeau. If the election were held now, the Conservatives would win with 35 per cent of the vote, with the Liberals forming the opposition with 30 per cent....

The protesters, who are followers of a powerful Shiite cleric, are demonstrating against the formation of the next government by Iranian-backed parties. Iraqi security forces used tear gas and sound bombs to try to push back the protesters. The expected session of parliament did not take place and there were no MPs in the room. Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Qadimi asked security forces to protect the protesters and asked them to keep their protest peaceful....

White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki ended Friday with questions about whether President Biden will travel to Ukraine amid the ongoing war with Russia. “No. “No,” Psaki said in response to questions from Pod Save America podcast presenters about whether the government was even considering sending the president to Kyiv. President Biden boardes Air Force One to fly to Warsaw, Jasionka, near Rzeszow, Poland, March 25, 2022. (Reuters / Evelyn Hockstein) RUSSIA INVASES UKRAINE: LIVE UPDATES Speculation has emerged as to whether Biden will visit the war-torn country following a visit by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Ukraine last week....

Ce dimanche 7 août, cinq personnes ont été blessées dans un glissement de terrain survenu dans la cheminée de Kanigo peu avant midi. L’un des blessés est un coureur du Lot-et-Garonne, grièvement blessé : il a été transporté en urgence à l’hôpital de Perpignan, avec des blessures aux membres inférieurs et au thorax. Il a été opéré et plongé dans le coma, raconte un de ses amis à nos confrères de La Dépêche....

• À lire aussi : Sami Nikou quitte le Canadien • Lisez aussi : Vincent Trocheck ravi de rejoindre les Rangers Dach, 21 ans, a été acquis par le directeur général Kent Hughes le 7 juillet lors de la première journée du repêchage de la Ligue nationale de hockey. Cependant, Hughes n’a pas encore accepté l’attaquant qui, en trois saisons avec les Blackhawks de Chicago, a amassé 59 points en 152 matchs....

La pénurie de semi-conducteurs continue d’entraver le bon fonctionnement des usines des fabricants, qui ne parviennent toujours pas à produire suffisamment pour répondre à la demande. Les optimistes noteront que la baisse de juillet est plus faible que celles enregistrées depuis le début de l’année (-15,3% en moyenne), laissant présager un possible renversement de tendance d’ici la fin de l’année. Plusieurs grands groupes, comme Volkswagen, ont annoncé à l’occasion de la publication de leurs résultats semestriels avoir amélioré leur offre....

Rafael Nadal is pulling out of the upcoming National Bank Open in Montreal as he continues to deal with an abdominal injury. Nadal said in a statement via Tennis Canada (h/t ATP Tour): “I’ve been practicing for a while now without serving and I started serving four days ago. Everything has gone well. However yesterday after my normal workout I felt a little discomfort in my stomach and today it was still there....

The 51-year-old, whose real name is Michael Tyler, was arrested on Sunday night after local police spoke to a man who claimed he had been sexually assaulted at a nearby hospital. Tyler, who scored a global hit in 2000 with Shake Ya Ass and was subsequently nominated for two Grammy Awards, served a six-year sentence in 2004 after pleading guilty to sexual assault and extortion. Tyler pleaded guilty to forcing his hairdresser to perform what the judge called “continuous sexual acts” after he accused her of stealing his $80,000 worth of checks....

“It is not yet known where the initial shooting occurred, but the vehicle with the two victims inside was pulled over westbound on Highway 1 in Burnaby,” said Cpl. Mike Kalanj in an emailed statement. “The shooting is believed to be connected to the Lower Mainland gang conflict.” Kalandz said one of the men in the car called police at the Kensington Freeway exit around 2:30 p.m. The driver was shot, but is expected to survive....

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the death of a man last week linked to the emergency landing of the plane he was piloting. The body of Charles Hew Crooks, 23, was found Friday night in a Fuquay-Varina yard, hours after the plane landed at Raleigh-Durham International Airport. It is unclear whether Crooks, who was one of the two pilots of the CASA 212-200 plane, jumped or fell from the plane....

Ausfallzeit Und damit verabschieden wir uns in den drittletzten Tag vor den Sommerferien. Morgen sind wir in diesem Punkt wieder für Sie da. Norman Fischer wird sich dann mit Ihnen in Verbindung setzen, um Sie durch den Mittwoch zu führen. Bis dahin kann ich Ihnen nur einen angenehmen Nachmittag wünschen. Achtung, Chao! 13:43 Uhr Szafnauer: Angeboten wird eins plus eins Szafnauer bestätigt auch, dass Alonso ein Einjahresvertrag mit Option auf ein weiteres Jahr angeboten wurde – womöglich zu wenig....

The land for Nellie Lunn Park in Wollaston Township, Ont., about 250 kilometers southwest of Ottawa, was bequeathed to the township in 1981 by Boleslaw Klincewicz, who fought in World War II. Klincewicz, who was near death at the time, had two conditions on the gift. First, the 40-hectare patch of underdeveloped mixed forest and wetlands in the rocky Canadian Shield should remain a public park. Second, he should be named after Nellie Lunn, the woman he called the “love of his life....

Listen to the article (2 minutes) Robinhood Markets is cutting about 23% of its full-time staff as the flashy online brokerage continues to reel from a sharp slowdown in client trading activity. The job cuts mark the second round of layoffs this year at Robinhood, which in April cut its staff by about 9 percent. Together, the two rounds have cut more than 1,000 jobs from the company.

Anti-tank barriers known as Czech hedgehogs still surround the streets. Sandbags and concrete checkpoints remain, but the fighters manning them have mostly advanced. The billboards no longer carry security instructions and warnings about Russian “invaders”, instead displaying patriotic messages. Russia last struck the city center on March 22. In addition to retaliation for Moscow, the latest attacks in Kyiv – targeting military production facilities – could be aimed at undermining Ukraine’s potential in the face of an expected full-scale Russian attack in the east....