Mother Nature smiled on St. John’s Wednesday morning, allowing a volunteer committee to give the go-ahead for the city’s unique weather-dependent holiday, the Royal St. John’s Regatta.
A man who tried to retract part of his guilty plea of sexual offences against teen girls caused a Brantford judge to fear that he hasn’t grasped the severity of his acts. Justice Robert Gee said the man’s attempted plea reversal and lack of remorse shown in a pre-sentence report about his life was worrisome. […]