This year marks the 15th Annual Ice Sculptures competition in Lakefield. It’s all apart of Polar Fest weekend winter carnival. It’s Michael Tuinstra’s 4th year returning to the competition. He’s carving a dragon as part of this year’s theme which is mystical forest creatures. “The sculptures themselves are designed are ahead of time,” said Tuinstra. […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – In a move that could harden Washington’s posture toward Beijing for years, the US intelligence community has characterised relations with China as a global ideological showdown that will not be doused by trade deals or commercial theft crackdowns. US spy chiefs abruptly shifted their view of the superpower rivalry this week to […]
CARACAS (REUTERS) – A high-ranking Venezuelan air force general said he had disavowed President Nicolas Maduro and now recognised opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim head-of-state, according to a video circulating on Twitter on Saturday (Feb 2). In the video, General Francisco Yanez, a member of the air force’s high command, called on other members […]
Internal documents show the Trudeau Liberals’ promise to examine how their plans affect women and men differently hasn’t been fulfilled across the federal government. Results from an internal survey conducted by Status of Women Canada measuring the implementation of “gender-based analysis plus” — or G-B-A-plus — found fewer than half of departments and agencies have […]
CARACAS, Venezuela — Opposition leaders in Venezuela are calling for the biggest protests yet against the authoritarian rule of Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, hoping to capitalize on international pressure to force him from power. The cracks in Mr. Maduro’s armor are starting to add up. American officials said they would no longer pay his government […]
Around the last pocket of Syria still under ISIS control, airstrikes are constant, the buildings are badly damaged and there are mines everywhere, planted by retreating fighters. “There’s been a lot of destruction,” said Kyle Town, a Canadian with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces who was recently at the frontlines at Deir ez-Zor. A 30-year-old […]
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] The blood has been mopped up. The tables are bustling again and the smell of Chinese food fills the air at Seaport Buffet, an unpretentious restaurant in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, where Asian and European immigrants gather to eat, sometimes […]
CHICAGO (REUTERS) – The polar vortex that locked the US Midwest in sub-zero weather and led to the deaths of at least 21 people will give way to milder, snow-melting temperatures this weekend. Temperatures should be around 4 to low 10s degrees Celsius through the weekend and Monday (Feb 4), forecasters said, after a record-breaking […]
President Trump’s family business has employed undocumented workers more broadly than it was previously believed, with multiple workers losing their jobs last month at a Trump golf club in southern New Jersey. The club in Pine Hill, N.J., known as the Trump National Golf Club Philadelphia, was the third Trump property where undocumented workers have […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Military intervention in Venezuela by the United States is not imminent, US President Donald Trump’s national security adviser said on Friday (Feb 1), but reiterated that all options remain on the table. Asked if US military intervention was imminent – or by Brazil or Colombia or a combination of all three nations […]