Business owners in Montreal’s Gay Village have expressed concern over a new winter emergency shelter that opened earlier this week at Hotel Place Dupuis. The downtown hotel, located near the intersection of St-Hubert and Ste-Catherine streets in downtown Montreal, was transformed into a temporary shelter due to the increased need for services brought on by […]
Donald Trump has blamed a burst pipe for helping Joe Biden narrow his lead in Georgia’s electoral count. The President of the United States told a White House press conference Thursday: ‘In Georgia a pipe burst in a faraway location totally unrelated to the location of what was happening, and they stopped counting for four […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – US President Donald Trump’s campaign is planning a Thursday morning (Nov 5) press conference in Las Vegas to announce the filing of a lawsuit alleging that at least 10,000 people voted illegally in Nevada, Fox News reported. The lawsuit will claim that the ballots were cast in Nevada by people who no […]
WASHINGTON – In a binary world of winners and losers, heroes and suckers, US President Donald Trump’s personal victory over Covid-19 enhanced his personal myth to an adoring base. “Covid, covid, covid” he has taken to saying recently, casting it as overblown phenomenon, amplified by a hostile media to crash the economy and make him […]
HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA (NYTIMES) – It was just after 2am on Wednesday (Nov 4) and President Donald Trump was speaking from the White House, declaring both victory and voter fraud. Mr Dan Hensley, a lifelong Republican whose reservations about Mr Trump had given way to strong support for former vice-president Joe Biden, was sitting alone in […]
In an important win for the prosecution, a judge in Minneapolis on Thursday ruled that the four officers charged in the killing of George Floyd, a Black man who took some of his last breaths under the knee of a white officer on a Minneapolis street corner in May, will stand trial together. The judge […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – After an election that failed to deliver the powerful gains that Democrats had hoped for, results from statehouses painted a similar picture, with the lowest number of chambers changing hands in more than half a century. Democrats had hoped for a “Blue Wave” to sweep statehouses that Republicans had controlled for years, […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – President Donald Trump and Fox News have a complicated relationship. Election Day did not help. The cable news channel that kick-started Mr Trump’s political career was suddenly in the position of signalling its potential end. The network’s early call of Arizona on Tuesday night (Nov 3) for Mr Joe Biden infuriated Mr […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – President Donald Trump and Fox News have a complicated relationship. Election Day did not help. The cable news channel that kick-started Mr Trump’s political career was suddenly in the position of signalling its potential end. The network’s early call of Arizona on Tuesday night (Nov 3) for Mr Joe Biden infuriated Mr […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The United States set a one-day record for new coronavirus cases on Wednesday (Nov 4) with at least 102,591 new infections and as hospitals in several states reported a rising tide of patients, according to a Reuters tally. Nine states reported record one-day increases in cases on Wednesday: Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Maine, […]