WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Donald Trump warned Iran on Sunday (July 7) over its imminent breach of a uranium enrichment cap. “Iran better be careful, because you enrich for one reason, and I won’t tell you what that reason is. But it’s no good. They better be careful,” he told reporters in Morristown, New […]
It was a family affair in more ways than one at the National Harbor as fans gathered at the Maryland waterfront to watch their team win the World Cup. There were children with their parents and grandparents, and even one yet-to-be-born fan, whose name is going to carry a reminder of the USA victory. “So […]
A candlelit memorial was held on Saturday night at the Penticton Skate Park on Riverside Drive in honour of a 16-year-old Okanagan boy who was fatally stabbed in downtown Kelowna last month. Elijah Beauregard, known to many as Eli, was stabbed on June 27. The incident happened in the parking lot behind the Bank of […]
A little white box, the size of a kitchen cupboard, with a glass door sits atop a post in Melissa Rafael’s front yard in Toronto. Sometimes people stop by to stock it with food and sometimes visitors leave with some boxes, cans or toiletries tucked in a bag or under their arm. Rafael erected her […]
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] They say you can never go home again, but some of New York’s most infamous Democrats are hoping that’s wrong. For six years, an ever-flexible number of Democratic state senators — sometimes five, sometimes nine, sometimes just one — […]
A 20-year-old man is in hospital with serious injuries following a single-vehicle crash in the Stellarton, N.S., area early Sunday morning. Nova Scotia RCMP say they responded to the 1000 block of Mclellans Brook Road just after 2 a.m. Police say officers, along with EHS and the Thorburn Volunteer Fire Department, arrived to find a […]
The treatment of migrants has recently been thrust into the spotlight as accounts emerge of overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in American border detention facilities. Here’s a look at how Canada deals with immigration detainees. Immigration holding centres, sometimes jails The Canada Border Services Agency can detain foreign nationals and permanent residents under certain conditions _ […]
A worker who was injured as a result of an industrial accident at Halifax’s Irving Shipyard has died from his injuries. Unifor Local 1, the union for the shipyard, says Trevor O’Neil passed away in hospital on Friday night. The 40-year-old man was struck in the head by a highly pressurized cover from a sandblasting […]
With Parliament adjourned for the summer, elected officials are back in their ridings and most — but not all — will spend the summer hitting the pavement and meeting with constituents whose votes they need for re-election. But dozens of the MPs who left Parliament Hill last month did so for the very last time […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire New York financier long accused of molesting dozens of young girls, was arrested on Saturday (July 6) and charged with sex trafficking by federal prosecutors, an extraordinary turn of events in a long and sordid legal saga. Two people with knowledge of the case said on Saturday […]