LAUDERHILL, Fla. — Recount mania overtook Florida on Friday, harkening to the national drama of the 2000 presidential election as lawyers marched into court on two ends of the state, protesters demanded the ouster of a local elections official in the state’s second-largest county and a trickle of ballots continued to be tallied. Protesters, many […]
When Tiannie Paul walked across the stage at Cape Breton University over the weekend to receive her diploma, she never expected to also receive a standing ovation. But as the first Mi’kmaw woman to complete the engineering diploma program, the school decided to honour her achievements. READ: Eagle feathers now an option for legal affirmations in […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Former US first lady Michelle Obama says she can “never forgive” Donald Trump for questioning her husband’s American citizenship, saying the president and other “birthers” put her family at risk, in her hotly anticipated new memoir. Obama also says she was surprised that so many American women voted for the “misogynist” Trump […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – President Donald Trump said on Friday (Nov 9) he had not discussed the probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 US presidential election with Matt Whitaker before appointing him as acting attorney-general, and it was up to Whitaker whether he wanted to be involved with the investigation. Speaking to reporters at the […]
A local non-profit wants to connect artists with business opportunities, patients with positive experiences, and the rest of us with a space to create. “We want to help people share their work. It gives them a sense of purpose,” says Lindsay Knox with the Art Mentorship Society of Alberta. “What are the barriers for you to […]
Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.) It was Nellie Wong’s 21st birthday, so drinks and country music were in order. She and her friends from California State University, Channel Islands packed into the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks. They went there to unwind several times a week, […]
Members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) in Collingwood and Muskoka are among the latest group of employees to walk off the job and take part in the ongoing rotating strikes. According to a tweet from the union, the workers walked off the job at 8 a.m., Friday. CUPW represents more than 54,000 […]
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Firefighters in opposite ends of California fought back fast-moving blazes on Friday morning as wildfires raged out of control near major cities, forced tens of thousands of residents to flee their homes and damaged hundreds of buildings. In Northern California, firefighters in Chico lined up on the outskirts of the city […]
The Satanic Temple filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Warner Bros. and Netflix, alleging copyright violation of its goat-headed statue, which appears in the new “Sabrina” series. The temple objected to the use of the statue’s likeness in the “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” which features a much darker portrayal of the teenage half-human, half-witch immortalized […]
Sandra Spannan is an architectural fine artist, gilder and art restorer; she bundles those occupations together at See. Painting, the company she founded after moving to New York from Germany in 1993. Ms. Spannan, 47, has done private interiors for Anderson Cooper and Tom Hanks and gilding work for Balthazar and the Ace Hotel. Most […]