Elected officials in some of Montreal’s boroughs are frustrated with snow removal operations this year. Several point to a snowfall last November when Mayor Valérie Plante’s administration decided not to cart the snow away. Montreal’s public works director went so far as to email the public works director of Anjou telling him that if Anjou […]
Several companies announced on Tuesday a joint effort to bring mobile phone coverage to the moon in 2019. A 4G wireless network is set to be installed on the moon by Vodafone, Nokia, Audi and SpaceX. The installation is scheduled to occur 50 years after NASA astronauts first walked on the lunar surface. The goal […]
While the UK faces its coldest temperatures of the winter so far, in the US, Hell has literally frozen over. Residents of Hell in Michigan have experienced temperatures as low as minus 26C (minus 14.8F), according to the National Weather Service, as northern states are gripped by the Polar Vortex. According to a town Facebook […]
Former House of Commons sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers says he is retiring next month as Canada’s ambassador to Ireland, potentially setting himself up for a bid to become New Brunswick Liberal leader. Vickers, hailed as a hero for helping to end the 2014 attack on Parliament Hill, said in a bilingual Facebook post Friday he’ll retire […]
More than a year after hundreds of Kensington Manor residents were forced to flee their apartments at a moment’s notice, the condemned building still sits basically untouched. Related Calgary council to review building bylaw following Fairview Arena, Kensington Manor structural faults Former Kensington Manor still looking for answers, more compensation Could be months before Kensington […]
The US denies reports that it’s discussing the possibility of Israel annexing illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. US President Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House next month. The announcement comes as the US denies reports it’s discussing the possibility of Israel annexing illegal settlements in the […]
If it seems impossible that Venezuela’s government could have remained in power nearly two years into the country’s self-imposed economic collapse, consider that Naunihal Singh, a leading expert on power transitions and coups, is just as baffled as everyone else. “It’s just perplexing,” Professor Singh said. “It shouldn’t be in anybody’s interests for the country […]
Opponents blast US president’s plan for massive show of military force in downtown Washington DC parade. Opponents of US President Donald Trump belittled his order to put on a massive military parade in Washington DC to celebrate American power with one calling him “Napoleon in the making”. Trump’s order to his generals to prepare a […]
A Canadian woman was rather perplexed when pepper spray and a stun gun arrived at her door instead of the cat dish she ordered from Amazon. Jacynthe Cardin returned the weapons, which are prohibited in Canada, to the police in her city of Montreal. Amazon says the “unfortunate incident” was the result of a bar-code […]
Teachers have returned to Stoneman Douglas for the first time following the deadly mass shooting, to prepare for students’ arrival on Wednesday. Teachers have returned to work nearly two weeks after a deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. Seventeen people were killed when a gunman opened fire at the school […]