Rising cases of common respiratory illnesses in China and elsewhere around the Northern Hemisphere are within the range expected for winter, with no unusual outbreaks reported, the World Health Organization said. Reports of a surge of cases in China of human metapneumovirus (hMPV), a common respiratory infection, have drawn headlines worldwide, with reports of overwhelmed hospitals recalling the beginning…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday there “isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States” after U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatened to compel a merger through “economic force.” Trump, in a wide-ranging press conference from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida with less than two weeks before he takes…
President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his hush money case in New York. Trump’s lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court on Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial and conviction last May on…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted January 7, 2025 12:00 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size TORONTO – The Toronto Raptors have waived centre Bruno Fernando, the NBA team announced Tuesday. Fernando averaged 3.4 points, 3.0 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 8.6 minutes in 17 games (two starts) this season….
A Quebec father says he had to take his son to the United States for care after alleging doctors in Montreal wrote off his son’s chances at survival. In October 2024, two-and-a-half-year-old Arthur Tetrault was found in the pool of a home his family was renting in Ile-Bizard, Que., a Montreal suburb. Nicolas Tetrault said…
The federal government has provided some clarity on how proposed changes to capital gains taxes will work after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prorogued Parliament without passing legislation to put the new tax rules into law. But tax experts warn that until it’s clear which party will form government this year in Canada’s upcoming federal election,…
Twenty-three metres below the surface of Barkley Sound, a sea sponge named Belinda is telling researchers about changing ocean conditions. “Honestly, it was very opportunistic,” Dominica Harrison, one of the study’s authors told Global News. “They just turned on the cameras, and there Belinda was. Just hanging out.” 2:01 Timelapse of sea sponge ‘Belinda’ sneezing,…
Hamas stood by its demand on Tuesday that Israel fully end its assault on Gaza under any deal to release hostages, and said U.S. president-elect Donald Trump was rash to say “all hell will break out” unless they go free by his Jan. 20 inauguration. Officials from the Islamist group and Israel have been holding…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office says he will attend former U.S. president Jimmy Carter’s funeral in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 9. Carter died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. He was the 39th president of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981. A public funeral will take place Thursday at the National Cathedral in…
As Donald Trump continues to talk about taking control of Greenland, his oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., travelled to the autonomous Danish territory on Tuesday — but Greenlandic and Danish officials are making it clear they want nothing to do with what the Trumps are proposing. “Don Jr. and my Reps landing in Greenland,” Trump…
