A social media ban for children under 16 passed the Australian Senate Thursday and will soon become a world-first law. The law will make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars (C$45.5 million) for systemic failures to prevent children younger than 16 from…
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…
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,…
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…
“Shocking, unexpected and terrified,” is how the CEO of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Deborah Yedlin, described her reaction to incoming U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to sign an executive order on his first day in office (January 20, 2025) to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all products coming into the U.S. from…
The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders to residents in areas of an eastern Gaza City suburb, setting off a new wave of displacement on Sunday, and a Gaza hospital director was injured in an Israeli drone attack, Palestinian medics said. The new orders for the Shejaia suburb posted by the Israeli army spokesperson on…
A DHL cargo plane crashed on approach to an airport in Lithuania’s capital and skidded into a house Monday morning, killing a Spanish crew member but not harming anyone on the ground. The cause is under investigation. A surveillance video showed the plane descending normally as it approached the airport before sunrise, and then exploding…
If you are soon travelling abroad, experts are urging vigilance after six tourists recently died, several of them from confirmed methanol poisoning — a nearly invisible killer that’s hard to spot in tainted alcohol. Methanol is a clear, colourless alcohol used in all kinds of everyday products like industrial cleaners, solvents, paint, cosmetics and anti-freeze….
Canada is on a “clear path” to hit NATO’s defence spending target over the coming years, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, as pressure ramps up on Ottawa in the wake of the U.S. election. Addressing the annual NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Montreal on Monday, Trudeau said Canada has so far made sure that its investments in targeted…
