After a long election season, there is just one House race where the result remains in serious doubt: North Carolina’s Ninth Congressional District. The state’s Board of Elections has refused to certify the narrow 905-vote lead that the Republican, Mark Harris, holds over the Democrat, Dan McCready, and is investigating allegations of absentee ballot fraud. […]
A former teammate of a Canadian Football League player who was shot to death identified the accused as the man who pulled a gun outside a nightclub two years ago. Nelson Lugela, 21, is on trial for second-degree murder in the death of Calgary Stampeder Mylan Hicks outside the Marquee Beer Market in September 2016. The […]
In 14 US states, there are already schools in which some teachers carry guns. Before they can be armed in the classroom, teachers in one of those states, Ohio, go through a three-day training course. An estimated 400 more teachers have gone through that training there this year. I joined the latest group of Ohio […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) – Several women have come forward in Brazil to accuse an internationally known self-proclaimed spiritual healer of sexually abusing them under pretext of trying to “cure” them of depression or other problems. The allegations against Joao Teixeira de Faria, 76, better known as “Joao de Deus” (“Joao of God”) were made […]
The Edmonton International Airport is bracing for the holiday travel season, as it prepares for 25,000 people to pass through its doors on the busiest day of the year – Friday, Dec. 21. Approximately 50,000 additional people are expected to drop off or pick up travellers, so the airport is reminding people to plan ahead […]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Heather D. Heyer, the woman run down during violent clashes here, was remembered on Wednesday for a quality that friends and relatives described as her most frustrating, and most admired — a passion for fighting injustice that was so relentless, it often spilled into her work and personal life. Hundreds of mourners […]
Quebec Premier François Legault plans to press Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Friday’s first ministers’ meeting for $300 million in federal compensation to cover the cost of asylum seekers arriving in the province. Related More than half of Quebec asylum seekers had some kind of ‘legal status’ in U.S. before crossing to Canada Ottawa to […]
The head of the Bank of Canada says the negative impacts of low oil prices that have struck Western Canada will reverberate across the entire national economy. But governor Stephen Poloz says the sting of weaker crude prices will likely have a smaller impact across Canada than the 2015 oil-price crisis, which contributed at the […]
Analysts say citizens will be the ‘biggest losers if politicians put their party’s interest over the will of the public’ Republican-controlled legislatures in Wisconsin and Michigan this week sought to curb the power of recently-elected Democratic governors and others, eliciting howls of protest from critics who called it a power grab after President Donald Trump’s […]
A week-long inquest into the death of Brydon Whitstone, 22, has concluded with the six-person jury making one recommendation to RCMP. Whitstone was shot and killed following a brief police pursuit in North Battleford, Sask., Oct. 21, 2017. Related Inquest into police shooting death of Brydon Whitstone starts in Battleford The jury suggested police use a […]