CLINT, Tex. — Children as young as 3 pressed their faces against the windows of one crowded cell holding nearly 20 migrant girls, some sprawled on the floor. Boys gazed through the fencing of a containment zone exposed to the 101-degree heat. Customs and Border Protection authorities on Wednesday allowed a group of journalists on […]
Hours before it was to become a flash point in the modern gay rights movement and a landmark visited with awe and reverence half a century later as if a shrine, it was just a dark, dingy bar called the Stonewall Inn, just another Friday night in June. A mobster named Fat Tony with the […]
Ontario’s Prince Edward County is an isolated place. Geographically speaking, the county is surrounded by water except for an isthmus at Carrying Place, Ont. The county is a spot for Torontonians to take a day trip, looking for wine or a sandy beach. But for the most part, what happens in Prince Edward County tends […]
NY Times reports Trump’s emergency declaration allows Raytheon to work with Saudi Arabia to build hi-tech bomb parts. When US President Donald Trump bypassed Congress last month to approve a multibillion-dollar arms deal to Saudi Arabia, he also allowed the kingdom to develop complex precision-bomb parts, according to the New York Times. Trump’s emergency declaration […]
The first US Democratic debate kicked off on Wednesday, with 10 candidates on stage. What did they say? The first of back-to-back nights of debate took place on Wednesday with 10 of the 20 US Democratic presidential candidates who qualified for the debate going head-to-head on a range of issues, including healthcare, immigration and US […]
WARNING: This post contains content some viewers may find disturbing. Discretion is advised. The heart-wrenching image of a drowned Central American migrant and his 23-month-old daughter in the Rio Grande this week has sparked an outcry around the world. For Coquitlam resident Tima Kurdi, it brings back painful memories of another haunting image: that of […]
San Francisco has become the first major city in the United States to effectively ban the sale of e-cigarettes, reacting to a dramatic rise in the number of young Americans who vape. The city’s legislature has approved an ordinance which will bar the sale, manufacture or distribution of e-cigarettes. The ban will come into effect […]
A growing number of littered cigarette butts in Calgary’s Hillhurst neighbourhood has prompted action from some of the city’s youngest activists. Grade 1 and 2 students at Hillhurst School hit the streets in an educational campaign to raise awareness about the negative impacts of improper cigarette disposal. The students picked up hundreds of dirty and […]
It’s no secret École St. Pius X is in a state of disrepair, but plans to combine the Lakeview school with Argyle elementary school into one join-use facility aren’t sitting well with some. In March, the province announced funding for joint-use schools and building new facilities in the province as part of its budget. In […]
An Okanagan woman was duped into believing she was helping a fraud investigation, but the people who convinced her to help turned out to be fraudsters themselves. Now she’s out nearly $40,000. “It’s been hard to live with this,” she told Global News. “Knowing that I was scammed big time.” The Kelowna woman, who wants […]