Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Natural Resources Minister Amarjeet Sohi will meet with workers at the Trans Mountain Edmonton Terminal on Friday morning. The meeting is part of a two-day visit to Edmonton, which saw the pair hold a “Team Trudeau 2019” campaign rally in the city’s southeast on Thursday night. Related Several B.C. First […]
WASHINGTON — Disgraced hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein was attending on-campus meetings as recently as 2014 with professors at Harvard University, a school he had supported with at least one multimillion-dollar donation, even though the registered sex offender’s ties to the school had already raised questions. Epstein, who donated $6.5 million to Harvard’s Program for […]
Fifty-two people and one dog were evacuated from a Super 8 motel in Winnipeg Tuesday morning after a carbon monoxide (CO) leak was detected in the building. As a result, 46 people were taken to hospital for CO exposure, 15 considered to be in critical condition. Everyone had been discharged from hospital as of Wednesday. […]
When one of the deadliest storms ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere roared through Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe in March, it was called Cyclone Idai. But the big blow that sideswiped Guam in February was Typhoon Wutip. And if the swirl of nasty weather coalescing over the Gulf of Mexico strengthens as expected this week, […]
The singer R. Kelly, already under indictment in Chicago on state charges of aggravated sexual assault and abuse, was arrested Thursday night by federal agents on charges related to child pornography and other federal crimes, officials said. Mr. Kelly was taken into custody over a 13-count indictment that includes enticement of a minor and obstruction […]
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] From a tidy glass office in Midtown Manhattan, Darren Walker gives away $650 million a year of other people’s money, and is paid nicely to do so. When he got this job in 2013, as president of the Ford […]
Morgan City’s motto is “Right in the Middle of Everywhere.” On Saturday morning, the Louisiana city of 12,000 people may find itself right in the middle of a hurricane. Forecasters expect Tropical Storm Barry, now out in the Gulf of Mexico, to develop into a Category 1 hurricane and land right on the city, which […]
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG, AFP) – US President Donald Trump complained that China hasn’t increased its purchases of American farm products, a promise he said he had secured at a meeting with Chinese President, Xi Jinping, at the Group of 20 summit last month. Mr Xi and Mr Trump agreed to restart trade talks between their countries […]
WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) – As he tries to tackle the greatest challenges to American power in Asia, US President Donald Trump is overturning policy toward China and North Korea that for decades was as canonical as Confucian ritual. With North Korea, he is engaging with the enemy in hopes that negotiations will yield a surrender of […]
The Lethbridge Intermediate AAA Bisons may have entered Thursday’s provincial match-up against Medicine Hat as underdogs, but they put on a show for the home crowd in Lethbridge. It took just five innings for the Bisons to beat Medicine Hat, as they decisively took Game 1 of the Little League Intermediate Divisional Championships by a […]