If you’re feeling particularly lazy today, you can basically get the full benefit of this column by just finishing the next fragment of a sentence: the Canadian government is epically screwing up yet another military procurement and we should all be ashamed of ourselves for letting it happen. Seriously. That’s it. If you’re slammed for […]
Animal welfare advocates have long warned against buying a pet during the holidays, but what about adopting one? While some animal shelters are encouraging families to adopt this holiday season, dozens in Germany are reportedly instituting a Christmas ban. According to The Independent in the U.K., shelters in Berlin and other German cities are putting […]
Ottawa firefighters had to rescue several residents from their balconies after a three-alarm fire broke out in an apartment high-rise east of the downtown core early Wednesday. Twenty-five people were assessed and eight people were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation, a spokesperson for Ottawa paramedics said. The fire occurred at an apartment building at […]
Ontario’s Office of the Fire Marshal is investigating an east mountain house fire. The Hamilton Fire Department was called to 162 Broker Dr. at around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Officials say the home was vacant and there were no injuries. Damage is estimated at $200,000. Related One person dead in apartment fire in downtown Hamilton Fire […]
A huge earthquake has rocked two states in the US after striking in the early hours of the morning. Tennessee and Georgia were both hit by the large tremor measuring 4.4-magnitude that struck shortly after 4am. Thousands of people took to social media after being woken by the powerful seismic event. People reported their houses […]
The International Crisis Group (ICG) said on Wednesday it had received no information from Chinese officials on the detention of its employee, former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig, and said it was seeking consular access to him. ICG, a policy forum focused on conflict resolution, said in a statement sent to Reuters Kovrig was detained by state security officials […]
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou was released from custody Tuesday night following a bail hearing earlier in the day. Meng was escorted to a black Cadillac Escalade SUV by Scot Filer, the CEO of Lions Gate Risk Management, which is handling her security while she’s out on bail, as she left the B.C. Supreme Court building […]
ANCHORAGE — Monica Bradbury stood bundled in her coat in the hall of the elementary school where she was dropping off her daughters, ages 7 and 10. It was close to 9 a.m. on Monday, still coal-dark in the nation’s far north, and this was the first morning back to school after the biggest earthquake […]
The Trump administration has taken aim at removing environmental federal protections for wetlands and isolated streams from pollution. The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a proposal redefining US waters under the Clean Water Act. Farm and agriculture lobbyists have pushed for these changes since 2015. But environmentalists say they could result in contaminating millions of acres […]
The chief financial officer of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has been granted bail by a Canadian court. Meng Wanzhou was arrested on 1 December and could be extradited to the US to face fraud charges linked to the alleged violation of sanctions on Iran. A judge in Vancouver set bail at C$10m (£6m; $7.4m). She […]