LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Actor Peter Mayhew, who won over fans worldwide as the Wookiee warrior Chewbacca in the blockbuster Star Wars movies, has died at the age of 74, his family announced on Thursday (May 2). Mayhew died on Tuesday at his home in Texas, surrounded by loved ones, the family said in a statement […]
CARACAS (BLOOMBERG) – Maybe Venezuela’s most famous political prisoner, Leopoldo Lopez, was the thread that unravelled it all. The overthrow that sputtered began when opposition lawmaker Juan Guaido tried to spark an uprising in Caracas on Tuesday (April 30), standing not only with masked soldiers who had defected but Lopez, his mentor and a cult […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The United States rejects attempts by countries, like China, that are not members of the eight-nation Arctic Council, to claim a role in crafting policies governing the polar region, a senior US official said on Thursday (May 2) before a meeting of the group in Finland next week. US Secretary of State […]
It began as a crime story in June 2016 about the lewd behaviour of a seven-year-old refugee boy towards a five-year-old American girl in Twin Falls, Idaho. But the incident quickly morphed into fake news that the girl had been gang-raped at knifepoint by Syrian refugees, who exchanged high-fives with their fathers afterwards. Officials were […]
A significant milestone has been reached on the construction portion of the new Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital in Saskatoon. The Saskatchewan Health Authority has now been handed over the keys. Inside the facility, animal murals line the walls. The nature theme is woven into each floor of the hospital. Nature theme runs throughout the Jim […]
Barack Obama’s former envoy to Ottawa has pulled back the veil on how the previous Conservative government of Stephen Harper froze him out over the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Bruce Heyman, who was the U.S. ambassador to Canada from 2014 to 2017, offers an on-the-record insider account of one of the worst-kept secrets in Ottawa […]
He was a high-school dropout from Queens who worked in a coffee cart in downtown Manhattan in 2006 when a friend handed him an audiotape of a radical Muslim cleric. That was the start of a personal odyssey that sent the young man, Najibullah Zazi, to fight in Afghanistan, where a senior Al Qaeda official […]
OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives want the RCMP to look into whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke the law by accepting family vacations on the Aga Khan’s private Caribbean island. In a letter to RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, Conservative MP Peter Kent says a thorough investigation should be conducted to ensure Canadians have confidence in […]
The US attorney general spent five acrimonious hours in front of a congressional committee explaining his handling of the Mueller report. The intensity of some of the exchanges suggests multiple legal and battles lie ahead between the Democrats in Congress and President Donald Trump. A day after Attorney General William Barr traded blows with senators, […]
Stelco, the Hamilton-based steel company that rose from the depths of insolvency just a few years ago, is looking to expand. A statement from the company’s latest financial results for the first quarter of 2019, says executive chairman, Alan Kestenbaum, “is leading efforts to actively evaluate a number of strategic and accretive M&A (merger and […]