ATLANTA (REUTERS) – A family of eight known as the “Hart Tribe” died last year in a murder-suicide when their sports utility vehicle plunged off a 30m cliff in northern California, a coroner’s inquest has said. The mystery over why the family from Washington state perished in March last year on a scenic cliffside highway, […]
CARACAS (AFP) – Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido urged his supporters to demonstrate in the streets Saturday (April 6) to maintain pressure on his rival President Nicolas Maduro, amid rising anger over the collapse of public services. Thousands of opposition supporters are expected to march through the capital Caracas from 11 am on Saturday as […]
CHICAGO (BLOOMBERG) – Boeing Co is cutting production of its 737 jetliner for the first time since the Sept 11, 2001, attacks as the planemaker works to limit financial damage from the global grounding of its newest and best-selling aircraft model. By slashing output 19 per cent – to 42 airplanes a month by mid-April […]
WASHINGTON – While the United States and China have made progress on key trade issues, significant work remains to be done, said the White House on Friday (April 5) as the latest round of trade talks wrapped up in Washington DC. Headway is being made in many areas including enforcement, intellectual property theft and forced technology […]
The principal of Queen’s University is calling recently discovered graffiti on campus a hate crime. Spray-painted anti-Semitic slogans were discovered at various locations across campus Friday morning. Queen’s University Principal Daniel Woolf calls it the work of a “despicable coward”. “This is the most despicable kind of graffiti,” said Woolf. “In my book, when you […]
For hours, he insisted that he was Timmothy Pitzen, a missing boy who had vanished in 2011 at the age of 6. He told the authorities that he had escaped from a hotel room where two men had been holding him captive for ages. He said that he had been physically and sexually abused. Finally, […]
A new collective bargaining agreement between the University of Regina and U of R Faculty Association (URFA) is now going to the school’s board of governors for final approval. URFA membership has voted in favour of the four-year agreement, which was reached on March 26, the final day of mediation. Job action would have been […]
Everyone from a beginner to an advanced golfer will be able to warm up their swing outdoors in Saskatoon starting this weekend. The municipal ranges at Silverwood Golf Course and Holiday Park Golf Course open on April 6. Ball sales at both driving ranges will be available daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. CT […]
Canada’s largest airlines say they do not have a timeline for when the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft will be added back into rotation. The aircraft was banned from Canadian airspace in March after two deadly crashes involving the same model of jetliner occurred within six months. Canadian airlines have had to make a number of […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – David Malpass, a senior US Treasury official in President Donald Trump’s administration, was unanimously chosen on Friday (April 5) as the next president of the World Bank. The selection of Malpass by the bank’s board of directors followed an “open, transparent” nomination process in which citizens of all membership countries were potentially […]