Almost two years after being hit by seven bullets in Quebec City’s biggest mosque, Aymen Derbali says the nightmares have finally stopped. The 42-year-old was one of more than 50 people attending evening prayers when a shooter opened fire on Jan 29, 2017, killing six people and wounding several others including Derbali. He was left […]
THE WEST BLOCK Episode 21, Season 8 Sunday, January 27, 2019 Host: Mike Le Couteur Guest Interviews: Parliamentary Secretary Marco Mendicino, Colin Robertson, Stephanie Carvin, Susan Delacourt, David Akin Location: Ottawa John McCallum, Canada’s Former Ambassador to China: “And I think Ms. Meng has quite a strong case.” Dawna Friesen, Global News Anchor: “Some breaking […]
A night after snapping their 10-game losing the streak, the Regina Pats (13-33-1-2) lost 3-2 in a shootout to the Brandon Wheat Kings (20-19-3-3) Saturday night in Western Hockey League (WHL) action. Pats defender Kyle Walker scored his first goal of the season, and first-of-two in the game, 3:53 into the contest– giving them a […]
After two years of fighting in court, the widow and children of a victim of the Quebec City mosque shooting will be granted compensation. Khadija Thabti lost her husband Aboubaker Thabti during the shooting that killed six men in 2017. Since, Thabti has been fighting to be recognized as a victim of a criminal offence by the IVAC […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Veteran Republican consultant Roger Stone said Sunday (Jan 27) his predawn arrest by US federal agents as part of the Russia collusion probe amounted to “Gestapo tactics” intended to prejudice a potential jury in his prosecution. Stone was raided at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Friday, becoming the sixth campaign […]
Conservative Party of Canada leader Andrew Scheer will address reporters at The Conservative National Caucus meeting in Ottawa on Sunday, and is expected to lay out his party’s plans for 2019. MPs and senators are gathering in Ottawa for the three-day retreat, partly to prepare for the reopening of Parliament next week after the lengthy […]
Environment Canada has issued a wind warning for a large portion of central and southern Alberta Sunday stretching from Leduc, south to the U.S. Border.The City of Edmonton is not included in the warning but Strathcona County is. “A strong cold front is dropping quickly southward this morning and will move through southern Alberta by […]
Two paratroopers somehow walked away unscathed despite having to share one parachute during a perilous descent back to earth. The British soldiers were taking part in a training exercise when one crashed into the other and his parachute collapsed. Private Jordan Larua-Brooks, 22, got tangled up in fellow paratrooper Private Carl Foley’s canopy during the […]
PANAMA CITY (REUTERS) – Pope Francis, in his first remarks on the Venezuelan crisis, called on Sunday (Jan 27) for a just and peaceful solution that respects human rights. “Faced with the grave situation it is going through, I ask the Lord that a just and peaceful solution is sought and achieved in order to […]
The detentions of two Canadians by China should be viewed as “retaliation” by China for the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou. Gary Locke, who served as the U.S. ambassador to China from 2011 to 2014, told the West Block’s Mercedes Stephenson in an interview that he and many other ex-diplomats and scholars who signed […]