Almost 400 classic cars and even more people came out to the annual Vernon Cruise-in (formerly the SunValley Cruise-in) on Sunday. Today’s show was part of a weekend-long event that started on Friday. “The reason we wanted to do a weekend event was to bring people from other parts of the world to this area,” […]
Donald Trump has hit back after being accused of making “racist and disgusting” remarks about Democratic congresswomen from black and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds. The US president wrote on Twitter: “So sad to see the Democrats sticking up for people who speak so badly of our country and who, in addition, hate Israel with a […]
BATON ROUGE, La. — Tropical Storm Barry’s second day on land brought waves of both relief and worry on Sunday. The slow-moving storm continued to kick up funnel clouds, tornadoes and sheets of heavy rain in parts of Louisiana, leaving some coastal communities with waterlogged homes and flooded roads. But the state’s largest metropolitan areas, […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US may approve licenses for companies to re-start new sales to Huawei in as little as two weeks, according to a senior US official, in a sign US President Donald Trump’s recent effort to ease restrictions on the Chinese company could move forward quickly. Huawei, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker, […]
MARACAIBO, Venezuela — Zimbabwe’s collapse under Robert Mugabe. The fall of the Soviet Union. Cuba’s disastrous unraveling in the 1990s. The crumbling of Venezuela’s economy has now outpaced them all. Venezuela’s fall is the single largest economic collapse outside of war in at least 45 years, economists say. “It’s really hard to think of a […]
Volunteers and OPP are continuing their search for two missing teenage girls in the western section of Algonquin Provincial Park. Marta Malek and Maya Mirota, both 16 and from Kitchener, were reported missing Friday around 10:00 p.m. The teens were reportedly last seen on Thursday on the Western Uplands Trail between Rainbow Lake and Susan […]
About 1,000 unionized employees from 10 private seniors’ residences across Quebec walked off the job on Sunday, demanding better working conditions and a $15 per hour minimum wage. Nine of the residences are expected to be affected by the strike for about a week, while one establishment could be disrupted for three days. The residences […]
US President Donald Trump has been accused of racism after posting tweets attacking Democratic congresswomen. He claimed the women “originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe”, before suggesting they “go back”. He then said Speaker Nancy Pelosi “would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements”. It comes […]
Here’s what you need to know: The rain forecast is down, but flood warnings are up. The center of the storm was about 15 miles southeast of Shreveport, La., on Sunday afternoon, and not going anywhere in a hurry. All of southeast Louisiana remains under a flash flood watch until 7 p.m. Sunday because of […]
OTTAWA — Some MPs are warning the high-stress, high-stakes environment of politics coupled with relentless work schedules and bouts of politically motivated marathon voting and debating sessions are one day going to kill someone. Winnipeg MP Kevin Lamoureux, who has been an MP for nine years and served as the Liberal’s deputy house leader since […]