[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] In the weeks before Amazon’s plans to build a headquarters in Queens combusted, New Yorkers could hardly escape Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. He appeared on radio stations and at business associations, loudly pushing the project that he had helped […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – A Boeing 767 cargo jetliner with three people on board crashed into a bay near Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport on Saturday (Feb 23), the Federal Aviation Administration said. Atlas Air Flight 3591 was en route to Houston from Miami when radar and radio contact with the plane was lost about […]
It’s a message heard time and time again: don’t drink and drive. Calgary police were enforcing that message Friday night with enhanced check stops across the city. New mandatory alcohol screening laws came into effect in December, meaning officers can demand a breath sample from any driver. Before that law was passed, officers had to have […]
Focus Montreal introduces Montrealers to the people who are shaping our community by bringing their stories into focus. The program airs on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. as well as Sunday at 7:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and midnight. Take a look at who we’re meeting this week. Voting for change? The 2018 Quebec election was historic, with […]
The price of necessary services, including sewage and waste removal, is going up in Metro Vancouver. A presentation at the annual Council of Councils meeting shows the average household will see an increase of $43 per year for the next four years. Mayor Jonathan Cote of New Westminster, who is also the chair of Metro […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – After introducing a paid cooking app more than a year ago, New York Times executives noticed something unexpected: Many of its subscribers came from rural America. The newspaper, long synonymous with city-living and coastal elites, had found a way to reach people in the middle of the country – through their […]
The head of the Time’s Up movement, Lisa Borders, has stepped down after her son was accused of sexual assault. Four months after being appointed, Ms Borders said she was leaving her job as president and chief executive officer to “address family concerns”. Time’s Up is an anti-sexual harassment movement which was founded after allegations […]
Two stories involving Canadians landed on the front pages of The New York Times this week. Neither involved the weekslong saga of who said what to Jody Wilson-Raybould. Instead, both featured Canadians who had left Canada to join the Islamic State, and who now want to return home. They were written by Rukmini Callimachi, our […]
OTTAWA — Vice-Admiral Mark Norman‘s legal team is pushing for access to emails and other communications from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and senior members of his staff as the clock ticks down to the next phase of the high-profile case. Those includes records held by Trudeau’s former principal secretary Gerald Butts and chief of staff […]
MOJAVE, California (REUTERS) – A Virgin Galactic rocket plane on Friday (Feb 22) soared to the edge of space with a test passenger for the first time, nudging British billionaire Richard Branson’s company closer to its goal of suborbital flights for space tourists. Virgin Galactic’s chief astronaut instructor Beth Moses, who will train future space […]