Tag: safety
Pavelka: How overcrowding impacts the world’s tourism hotspots
Joe Pavelka, Mount Royal University Every summer, millions of people jet off on vacations around the world. The United Nations World Tourism Organization estimates that international arrivals, the measure of global travel, will be two per cent higher than the pre-pandemic total was in 2019. However, as more of us are taking vacations, some of […]
Eyewitness says he tried to save London girl swept away in Thames River
As the search for a girl missing in the Thames River in London continued Friday, an eyewitness who was fishing when she disappeared recalled how he tried to save her in the fast-moving current. The 11-year-old boy, who’d been fishing with his grandfather Thursday, said he saw the girl playing in the water upstream nearby […]
Hospital selfie taker back in court over drag queen protest
A London-area man convicted of harassment in a bizarre incident in which he took a selfie with the dying father of an online critic has pleaded not guilty to the same charge, this time stemming from a protest against a drag queen story event last year. Bubba Pollock, 35, was in London court on Friday […]
River search for missing London girl enters second day
A search was continuing Friday in north London for a missing girl last seen Thursday afternoon in the Thames River
LIVE: Frantic search continues in London for child in Thames River
London firefighters and police are using boats and a drone as they search for a child in the Thames River on Thursday. The child was last seen at 3 p.m. in the river in the area of Adelaide Street North and Kipps Lane, London police said. “Police are asking the public to avoid the area […]