On Friday afternoon, the city of Kingston officially instated its first female police chief. “It’s a great time to be chief,” Antje McNeely said after her swearing-in ceremony on Friday afternoon at Kingston City Hall. When asked about breaking barriers as the first woman to take the role, McNeely brushed away the distinction. “It’s great to […]
Three months ago, lawyers for Harvey Weinstein released hundreds of emails shared between the Hollywood movie mogul and a woman who accused him of rape. The emails, they said, suggested the relationship was consensual and continued long after the alleged attack. This week, the lawyers went further in their campaign to undermine the credibility of […]
An unprecedented amount of donations and service calls came into the London Abused Women’s Centre during this year’s Shine the Light on Woman Abuse campaign. Officials celebrated the results of the 9th edition of the campaign during a wrap-up event on Friday. People, businesses, and community groups in London and across the globe went purple […]
BUENOS AIRES – Argentine president Mauricio Macri opened the G-20 leaders’ summit in Buenos Aires on Friday (Nov 30) with a call for international cooperation, urging the world’s 20 largest economies to come together to tackle common challenges even as he acknowledged growing doubts about multilateralism. “In the last few years, current multilateral mechanisms, including […]
President Trump declared victory on Friday at a ceremonial signing of the new North American Free Trade Agreement in Buenos Aires, predicting that gaining congressional approval needed to enact the pact with Mexico and Canada would not be “very much of a problem.” In reality, it is a problem. The trade pact’s political fate — […]
After a lull around the mid-term elections, Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is accelerating again. But where does it go from here? Former Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen’s plea deal was the exclamation point at the end of a week that gave numerous hints and indications of where the special counsel’s office may be focusing its […]
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — In September, at the Long Island cul-de-sac where two years ago her teenage daughter was found murdered by the transnational gang MS-13, Evelyn Rodriguez saw that the memorial she had placed there that day was gone. The woman who had dismantled it — because she was trying to sell the house […]
A Canadian Forces plane is heading to the storm-battered Îles-de-la-Madeleine Friday carrying supplies and personnel to help residents who were cut off from the rest of the province when a fierce winter storm struck Wednesday. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale tweeted that a Hercules aircraft is en route with up to 250 Canadian Forces members […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged U.S. President Donald Trump to drop his steel and aluminum tariffs on Canadian imports Friday, at the signing of the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) in Argentina. Trudeau said the tariffs remain a major obstacle to U.S. and Canadian prosperity, even under the new USMCA deal that both leaders signed […]
The latest episode of the Simpsons has addressed controversy surrounding Indian character Apu for the first time. Indian-American comic Hari Kondabolu made a documentary last year, saying the character was founded on racial stereotypes. Sunday’s episode made a nod to the accusations, but some viewers found it insufficient. Others defended the show and said all […]