ATLANTA (REUTERS) – The United States recorded 60 new measles cases last week, taking confirmed cases for the year to 940, the worst outbreak since 1994 and since measles was declared eliminated in 2000, federal health officials said on Monday (May 27). The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a 6.8 per cent […]
Waterloo Regional Police say they do not suspect foul play following the discovery of a body in the Grand River on Saturday. Emergency crews were called to the area of Grand Avenue and St. Andrews Street in Cambridge at around 1:30 a.m. Police said a 32-year-old man was pulled from the water and pronounced dead […]
A growing number of immigrant soldiers are being denied citizenship even after reporting for duty. Monday is Memorial Day in the United States, when Americans honour the military servicemen and women killed on duty. But not all those who serve in the US military are American born. Around 40,000 immigrants in military service hope to […]
TORONTO – The man accused of killing 10 people by mowing them down while driving a van on a busy sidewalk in north Toronto is scheduled to appear in court Monday. Alek Minassian, of Richmond Hill, Ont., faces 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder in the April 2018 attack. Police […]
ATLANTA (REUTERS) – Sweltering heat, storms and possible twisters were expected to hit the US southern Plains and southeastern states on Memorial Day (May 27) after a spate of deadly tornadoes and flooding in the region. Temperatures around 38 deg C were forecast in cities from Jacksonville, Florida, up the southeast into Macon and Savannah […]
US president Donald Trump has said he is not “personally bothered” by recent short-range missile tests conducted by North Korea, breaking with Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, who is hosting the president on a four-day state visit. Mr Abe, who stood beside Mr Trump at a news conference after hours of talks, disagreed with the […]
Meeting between national security advisers was first since US ended formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1979. Senior national security officials from the United States and Taiwan held their first meeting in four decades this month, with the aim of deepening cooperation, the government in Taipei has said. Taiwan’s national security chief David Lee met […]
Members of the Kincora community in northwest Calgary gathered Sunday evening to pay tribute to the victims killed and injured in a fatal fire Saturday. Red ribbons were handed out to the more than 50 people who showed up. Organizers said the colour red was chosen because it was a victim’s favourite colour. Those who […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader, Mr Kim Jong Un, “agree” in their negative assessment of former vice-president Joe Biden, the White House press secretary, Ms Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said on Sunday (May 26). Ms Sanders, in an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, also defended the President’s approach to […]
British Columbia’s housing minister was in town on Friday to announce a new housing development, but it won’t be a new homeless shelter or supportive housing complex. Almost 160 new rental homes will be built on Clement Avenue across from the police station for Kelowna’s middle-income families, usually characterized as households with incomes ranging between […]