Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce Wednesday that the federal government is buying two more Arctic patrol ships on top of the six it has already ordered from Halifax-based Irving Shipbuilding. However, unlike the first six, which are being built for the navy at a total cost of $3.5 billion, a government source […]
An Armstrong business owner said she’s being trolled online after addressing a same-sex couple on a popular Kelowna beach for allegedly behaving inappropriately. Jaimie Wlasenko runs a hair salon in Armstrong. She was at Kelowna’s City Park a couple of weeks ago with her daughter and niece. She said her daughter told her two women […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – The US has strong indications that European nations are coming around to the severity of the threat posed by China’s Huawei Technologies Co and the dangers of incorporating its equipment into their coming 5G networks, according to an administration official. The official said that while European nations probably won’t impose an outright […]
Washington has become the first state in the US to legalise human composting. Under the new law, people there can now choose to have their body turned into soil after their death. The process is seen as an alternative to cremations and burials, and as a practical option in cities where land for graveyards is […]
A Canadian zoo owner has been charged with criminal animal cruelty and the animals on the premises are being seized by authorities. The owner of the St-Édouard Zoo in Quebec faces two counts of cruelty and neglect covering over 100 animals at the zoo. They include lions, tigers, zebras, bears, wolves, kangaroos and primates. Authorities […]
A US jury has found that a former Uber driver living in Virginia committed acts of torture during Somalia’s civil war in the late 1980s. Somali citizen Farhan Tani Warfaa testified last week in the Washington DC suburbs that ex-Somali colonel Yusuf Abdi Ali shot and tortured him. Ali was a commander in the national […]
CARACAS, Venezuela — It was a daring gambit: Juan Guaidó, Venezuela’s opposition leader, stood by a military base alongside dozens of uniformed officers and political allies, calling for a military uprising against President Nicolás Maduro. Three weeks later, Mr. Guaidó is shuttling among a half-dozen safe houses to escape capture. Most of the men who […]
More than two years after former Canadian soldier Lionel Desmond killed his mother, wife and daughter before taking his own life, a provincial fatality inquiry got underway Tuesday in Guysborough, N.S., not far from the family’s rural home. The commissioner overseeing the inquiry, provincial court Judge Warren Zimmer, opened the hearings by recounting the grim […]
There is good news for dog owners hoping to explore Quebec’s network of provincial parks, campgrounds and nature reserves in company of their four-legged friends. As of May 17, dogs are allowed in the province’s parks managed by the Société des établissements de plein air du Québec (SÉPAQ). But before yipping with with joy, be […]
Mayor Valérie Plante and Quebec Transport Minister François Bonnardel took a ride on the Montreal Metro together Tuesday morning. Plante said she wanted to show Bonnardel just how packed the orange line gets during rush hour — in hopes of convincing the provincial government to support the idea of a new pink line. She said […]