By Jack Farrell The Canadian Press Posted November 27, 2024 2:47 pm Updated November 27, 2024 10:01 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Alberta’s plan to make greenhouse gas emissions data the property of the provincial government could lead to oil and gas…
Israel approved a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement with Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Tuesday, setting the stage for an end to nearly 14 months of fighting linked to the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip. In the hours leading up to the Cabinet meeting, Israel carried out its most intense wave of strikes in Beirut and its southern suburbs…
An angry Rudy Giuliani lost his cool in the courtroom Tuesday, lashing out at the judge overseeing his defamation payout, saying “I can’t pay my bills.” The former New York mayor and lawyer to Donald Trump was captured in a now-viral courtroom sketch by Jane Rosenberg, pointing furiously at Judge Lewis Liman. This courtroom sketch artist…
Russia’s ruble has fallen to its lowest level against the U.S. dollar since the beginning of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a potential result of new U.S. sanctions and the latest sign of a struggling wartime economy. Russia’s central bank said on Wednesday it would stop foreign currency purchases for the rest of the year…
A Ukrainian girls’ hockey team is in Canada for a few days of peace and hockey in an arena that doesn’t have a missile-sized hole in its roof. After a 56 hours of travel to Calgary, including a 24-hour bus ride from Dnipro to Warsaw, Poland, that required army escort for a portion of it,…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size As Canada prepares for the threat of tariffs once Donald Trump takes office, the question remains on if the federal government would issue retaliatory tariffs like they did during the previous trade spat between the two countries. In 2018, Trump imposed a 25-per cent tariff on steel and…
Millions of Americans with obesity would be eligible to have popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy or Zepbound covered by Medicare or Medicaid under a new rule the Biden administration proposed Tuesday morning. The costly proposal from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services immediately sets the stage for a showdown between the powerful pharmaceutical…
A nationwide shutdown of Canada Post is set to have major implications for the biggest shopping weekend of the year, experts warn. Workers at the national postal service remain on strike for a second week, with the Crown corporation reporting that “limited” progress was made on talks over the weekend. The union representing striking postal…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Vancouver residents will have to wait to find out whether the city will allow the use of natural gas to heat homes — or re-instate a ban on fossil fuels in new builds. More than 140 people registered to speak at Vancouver City Hall on Tuesday. But…
Money laundering, disinformation, electoral interference, economic security, drug trafficking and espionage. It’s not the plot to the latest Mission Impossible. It’s the agenda for a major international conference in Vancouver this week that’s drawn experts from around the world, many of whom say Canada isn’t doing enough to protect itself. More than 70 specialists from…
