WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Unscheduled absences among federal airport security screeners jumped on Sunday (Jan 13) as a partial government shutdown that has frozen pay checks moved into its 23rd day. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the agency responsible for airport security screening, said unscheduled absences among its employees rose to 7.7 per cent from 5.6 […]
A senior US Republican has urged President Donald Trump to temporarily reopen parts of the government shut down for more than three weeks. Senator Lindsey Graham, who is close to Mr Trump, said a limited re-opening of a few weeks would allow talks to resume between Republicans and Democrats. The partial government shutdown has now […]
A cross-country festival is giving adults and children in Regina the opportunity to get up close and personal with exotic animals, in order to promote education and conservation. “A lot of the animals we have aren’t anything people in Saskatchewan get to see,” Reptile expert, Jason Clevett said. “It’s a really great opportunity for us to […]
DOHA (AFP) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hopes for an imminent end to the longest government shutdown in American history, he said Sunday (Jan 13) during a whistle-stop Middle East tour. “I hope it ends tomorrow,” Pompeo said to applause as he addressed US diplomats in Doha, the latest stop on his eight-day […]
Construction on the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline project is probably unlikely to begin any time soon. In an interview with the West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson, Goldy Hyder, the president of the Business Council of Canada, said based on renewed tensions between law enforcement and Indigenous people blockading pipeline work sites over the past week, he’s […]
LONDON, ONTARIO (NYTIMES) – The intruders arrived during the night with the wind and high tide. By the morning of Jan 3, it seemed like the little Canadian town had been overrun. Seals, dozens of them. Seals on the beach, seals on streets and driveways, seals in parks and backyards. More than a week later, […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Donald Trump said he was holding off on declaring a state of emergency to end the partial US government shutdown that dragged into a 23rd day on Sunday (Jan 13), as he insisted on US$5.7 billion (S$7.7 billion)to build a Mexico border wall that congressional Democrats oppose. Asked by Fox News […]
The victims included a woman and her 14-year-old stepdaughter, whose car slid and was hit by another vehicle about 80 miles south of Kansas City. Another woman’s car slid into the path of an SUV in northern Missouri, a 62-year-old man in Kansas died after his truck skidded and hit a concrete barrier and two […]
A winter storm pummeled parts of the Midwest on Saturday, turning roads into a snowy and slushy mess that has contributed to the deaths of at least five people, the authorities said. The storm is expected to head toward the Mid-Atlantic States, with several inches of snow forecast for Washington, D.C., and much of Virginia. […]
A woman and two men are in custody after voluntarily pulling over at a traffic stop, when their vehicle ran out of gas. The vehicle was not pulled over by police. Their vehicle stopped on Highway 2 near Glen Park Road in Leduc on Jan 11. at approximately 12:30 p.m., when its occupants asked for […]