The City of Edmonton is asking for the public’s input on electronic dance music (EDM) parties a week after several people were taken to hospital and several more were arrested at an event. The city has launched a week-long online survey that it says will be used to help take steps toward improving safety at large-scale […]
[Want to get New York Today by email? Here's the sign-up.] It’s Friday! And the earth is at its closest annual approach to the sun. ? New York Times: “Chilly as winter may feel in the Northern Hemisphere, we’re more than three million miles closer to our fiery star than we were in the dead […]
A slow-moving low-pressure weather system dumped eight to 10 centimeters of snow around the Kingston, Ont., region overnight Wednesday. The OPP say that while plows were able to keep the roads mostly bare, it was still very slippery on the highways. “Just because it says 100 is the maximum, you do not have to drive […]
Striking Saskatoon Co-op employees are voting on a new contract. Roughly 900 members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) local 1400 walked off the job Nov. 1. At issue for the union was the company’s desire to introduce a second-tier wage scale for new employees. Related Saskatoon Co-op files unfair labour practice in ongoing […]
According to the Russian authorities, he is a US spy. According to his family, he is simply a man who wanted to attend a friend’s wedding. So what do we know about Paul Whelan, the 48-year-old who could face years in prison after being arrested in Moscow on suspicion of spying last month? Former marine […]
Nearly four years ago, I began following six people over age 85 to see what their lives were like: what kept them going, what they hoped for or feared. This past year, I asked Jonas Mekas, now 96, about death and the afterlife. The question had particular resonance. In summer Mr. Mekas had been hospitalized […]
WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) – Cod fish was cooking on the stove when 11-year-old Cameron Jean-Pierre arrived at his grandmother’s home in New York. Cameron, who had a known allergy to seafood, started to wheeze during the visit this week, so his father said he reached for his son’s asthma medication. But this time, the nebuliser […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – Tesla chief executive officer Elon Musk reiterated that Singapore has been “unwelcome” to the company, doubling down on his previous assertions that the Government is not supportive of electric vehicles. Responding to a tweet inquiring why Tesla is not in Singapore yet, Mr Musk said the Government has been “unwelcome”, without elaborating. […]
TORONTO (REUTERS) – Canada said on Thursday (Jan 3) that 13 of its citizens have been detained in China since Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested last month in Vancouver at the request of the United States. “At least” eight of those 13 have since been released, a Canadian government statement said, […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday (Jan 3) sent a letter to President Donald Trump inviting him to deliver the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Jan 29. Pelosi, a Democrat, sent the letter to the Republican president hours after being elected speaker […]