Four Democratic congresswomen call Trump’s racist tweets a ‘distraction’, instead focus attention on issues. Washington, DC – The four Democratic congresswomen who were attacked by US President Donald Trump in racist tweets over the weekend said on Monday they will “not be silenced”, and instead turned their attention to the treatment of immigrants detained at the […]
Congress approved a humanitarian aid plan for migrants at the US-Mexico border, but the political crisis over how to deal with migrants attempting to reach the US continues. Migrants continue to die en route to the border, including a Salvadorean father and daughter whose bodies were photographed lying face down in a river near the […]
Michael Shelver and Patrick Mertes both have a love of the outdoors and climbing. Neither has a functioning pancreas. How is type one diabetes affecting their bid to climb to the highest point in each of the 50 states in just 50 days? Being halfway up a mountain when you have a hypo – a […]
On a September morning two years ago, Abel Cedeno put on a pink Kylie Minogue shirt, and then tossed his books and inhaler into his backpack. Just before leaving for school that day, he took a switchblade knife he had bought online from the top of his dresser and placed it in his pocket. Within […]
US President Donald Trump has sparked racial controversy this weekend with tweets calling on several Democratic congresswomen of colour to “go home”. The congresswomen, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, all American citizens, accused the president of being racist. Mr Trump did not explicitly name the women, but the context and references […]
Air travel for Canadians got a little sweeter on Monday as a host of new protections came into play, but travellers will have to wait five more months to see the full picture. The first phase of the so-called passenger “bill of rights” focused primarily on remedying travel mishaps like tarmac delays, lost or damaged […]
A US judge has sentenced a self-professed neo-Nazi to a second life prison term for killing a demonstrator when he drove his car into a crowd protesting against white supremacists in Charlottesville two years ago. Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Richard Moore sentenced James Fields, 22, to life plus 419 years, as recommended by the jury […]
A longtime B.C. search-and-rescue volunteer who’s saved countless lives is appealing for the public’s help after his six-month-old puppy bolted after a crash in West Vancouver earlier this month. Garry Mancell was travelling eastbound on the Upper Levels highway near the Caulfield exit around 8:30 p.m. on July 3, when he said he got distracted and drove […]
US President Donald Trump has redoubled his attack on four Democratic congresswomen, accusing them of “hating our country”. “If you are not happy, if you are complaining all the time, you can leave,” he told a heated news conference outside the White House. On Sunday Mr Trump called on the women, who are from ethnically […]
“Why don’t you go back to where you came from?” Racist insults do not come more hackneyed or crass. But those were the words of the president of the United States, tweeting about four congresswomen from ethnic minorities. He tweeted: “Why don’t they go back?”, before adding: “You can’t leave fast enough”. Disgraceful by any […]