OSHAWA, Ontario — General Motors has been making cars in Oshawa, Ontario, for more than a century in factories that once employed upward of 40,000 people, so the company’s announcement on Monday that it would stop production brought recriminations from across the Canadian political spectrum. But for Eva McKeen, an inspector in the paint shop […]
The company that wants to build the Keystone XL pipeline is asking a judge to change his order blocking the project to allow pre-construction work to continue, such as purchasing materials and finalizing contracts. Attorneys for the company will argue in a Wednesday telephone conference that U.S. District Judge Brian Morris should clarify or amend […]
When Jimmy Lee Durocher, a 17-year-old in otherwise perfect health, went into the operating room Jan. 14 at a hospital in St-Charles-Borromée, Que., his family expected it would be a routine appendix removal. But less than four hours later, Durocher was in cardiac arrest, and he would never recover. In a report to be made […]
As thousands of migrants from Central America try to reach the US to seek asylum, many others are already waiting for a chance to cross the border from Mexico, the first step of an unpredictable and often traumatic process. In a cold morning this month, Rogerio Baltazar and his family arrived in Ciudad Juárez, in […]
A Florida man has been charged after he was allegedly overheard raping a teenage girl on a PlayStation stream, US media report. Reports say Daniel Enrique Fabian, 18, was playing Grand Theft Auto earlier this year when he allegedly assaulted a 15-year-old girl during a game break. Another player alleged to police that Mr Fabian […]
In the photograph, a woman clutches two children in diapers, one of them barefoot, as they run from a smoking tear gas canister fired by American border officials. That arresting image, taken in Tijuana, Mexico, by the photojournalist Kim Kyung-Hoon of Reuters, spread rapidly online. It prompted outrage after a peaceful march by Central American […]
Many students in Oshawa, Ont., who had their “hopes quite high” that they’d find work at the city’s General Motors plant, will have to look for other options after Monday’s announcement that the plant will be shutting down. Students like Priya Shastry, who is an automotive engineering masters student at the University of Ontario Institute of […]
Ever since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, the two countries have been locked in escalating tensions and conflict. Those tensions have prompted international troops, including Canadians, to set up in Ukraine and Eastern Europe to both train the Ukrainians to protect themselves and help deter Russia from trying to annex further territories in […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Donald Trump said Monday (Nov 26) he doesn’t believe his own government’s report last week warning of massive economic losses if carbon emissions continue to feed climate change unchecked. “I don’t believe it,” Trump said at the White House, adding that the United States would not take measures to cut emissions […]
The City of London issued nearly 300 parking tickets and seized 40 parking permits during a week-long enforcement blitz. Between November 19 and 25, 2018, there were 289 tickets issued for accessible parking violations and 40 permits seized, which is an increase over the amount of tickets and permit seizures made during the July 2018 […]