This is part two in a three-part Global BC series examining the Site C dam. Read part one here and read part two here. Imagine a remote job site where the steak dinners are unlimited and the bed is made for you. It does exist — in northeastern B.C. The work camp at the Site C dam […]

VALLETTA (Reuters) – Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Friday he was ready to resign if implicated by official inquiries into a mystery Dubai firm and its links to companies set up in Panama by his chief of staff and former energy minister. Asked about related revelations in articles by Reuters and the Times […]

Over a million children under five suffered from severe malnutrition in six worst-hit countries in the Sahel. The number of hungry children in West Africa’s Sahel region has reached a 10-year high in 2018 due to a lack of rain, conflict and increasing food prices, a United Nations agency said on Friday.   More than […]

Workers argue that the government is ‘not listening’ to their concerns but minister says special committee formed. Ramallah, occupied West Bank – Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have continued to protest against a controversial social security law, which came into effect at the start of the month. The latest of several demonstrations against the law was […]

The Los Angeles Times has hired two restaurant critics to replace Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic who died of pancreatic cancer in July, at 57. The job will be split between Bill Addison, 46, who has been the national restaurant critic for the website Eater since 2014, and Patricia Escárcega, 38, a food reporter […]

LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s bullfighting tradition has stirred a row inside the Socialist government after the new culture minister refused to cut value-added tax (VAT) on tickets to events in line with other cultural shows. Many Portuguese back the practice, arguing that it is more humane than in neighboring Spain because bulls are not killed […]

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s president has rejected a second no-confidence motion passed on Friday against Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, appointed late last month in place of Ranil Wickremesinghe, a loyalist lawmaker said. Maithripala Sirisena will also not reappoint Wickremesinghe to the post, Lakshman Yapa Abeywardene, from Sirisena’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party, said. “The president […]

Even if my shopping is planned with military precision, the days leading up to Thanksgiving always require emergency trips to the store. Once I’m there, the single bunch of sage I came for somehow turns into yet another full bag of groceries. Surrounded by ingredients, I am seized by both anxiety and ambition. Did those […]

DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia is defying U.S. calls to mend ties with Qatar despite signs that pressure to end another regional crisis, the Yemen war, has had an impact on Riyadh since the killing of a prominent journalist. Jamal Khashoggi’s murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 caused a global outcry, […]

Searching for jobs and a ‘better life’, African migrants brave the dangerous journey to Morocco hoping to reach Spain. Tangier/Rabat/Casablanca, Morocco – Nine months ago, Hadj arrived in Morocco from Burkina Faso with one single goal: reach Europe and change his and his family’s life. Unable to find a job at home, the 29-year-old political […]