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Former fashion mogul Peter Nygard is asking an Ontario court to review a decision to deny him bail as he appeals his sexual assault convictions and sentence.

Nygard’s legal team is set to appear before the Court of Appeal for Ontario today to argue that the motions judge made several errors in dismissing the 83-year-old’s bail application last month.

His lawyers argue in written submissions that, among other things, the motions judge “unfairly discounted” the value of a new medical report.

Millions of Americans are heading to the polls Tuesday as a chaotic presidential campaign reaches its peak in a deeply divided United States, where voters in only a handful of battleground states will choose the country’s path forward.

Vice-President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump have presented starkly different visions for America's future, but polling shows the two remain in a dead heat. 

As massive flash floods ravage Spain’s Valencia region, the crisis shows no signs of slowing. Days after torrential rains devastated communities and claimed over 215 lives, heavy storm clouds linger over Barcelona.

Well-known actor, Henry Winkler, best known for his role as The Fonz in the American sitcom Happy Days is in Winnipeg filming alongside Lena Headey and Bob Odenkirk in the upcoming movie Normal.

Henry has been cast as the mayor in the crime thriller, while Odenkirk plays a man named Ulysses, a temporary sheriff in the town of Normal and Game of Thrones star, Lena Headey plays a local bartender. 

The popular actor told his fans his thoughts on the city via a post on X.

"So happy here in Winnipeg," said Winkler. 

A film about an influential German pastor during WWII showcases a new ballad by Christian artist Lauren Daigle. 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian as well as an anti-Nazi dissident. His life and sacrifice is being made into a movie, Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.

Best-selling author and speaker Dr. Gordon Neufeld is coming to Manitoba in hopes of helping parents flourish. 

"The keynote speaker is Dr. Gordon Neufeld, a developmental psychologist from Vancouver, BC," says Terry Warburton, Clinical Director of Recovery of Hope. "He's internationally known. He's spent his life connecting the dots of attachment and developmental theory, and has put it together in a way that's very accessible to the rest of us that don't want to study all that, but we do want to make sense of it."

Alberta-born singer Jodie Leslie got her start in music at the age of two, and while that has always been a passion, her life took a different career path for a period of time.

"I went into college taking equine sciences," Leslie says. "So some veterinary courses for horses and training courses, and I ended up finding myself over in Europe riding and training horses and while I was over there I really gained a hunger for being on a worship team, singing with a band."

Romans 13:6

This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing.

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Acts 7; Acts 17

Billy Wilder, the great movie producer, openly admitted: "I have a vast and terrible desire never to bore an audience." With tacit agreement Jack Parr once declared: "The greatest sin is to be dull."

Those two statements ought to haunt anyone who regularly practices the fine art of communication.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is condemning violence that erupted Sunday when Indian consular officials visited a Hindu temple in Brampton, Ont., as police announced three people have been charged in the clash.

Visits by Indian officials to the temple in Brampton and another in Surrey, B.C., were met with protests from demonstrators seeking a separate Sikh nation called Khalistan.