VANCOUVER — Former New Democrat MP Kennedy Stewart has won a neck-and-neck mayoral race to lead Vancouver, as local government saw shakeups across the region. Supporters chanted, “Kennedy, Kennedy,” and broke out in dance as results came in early Sunday morning, heralding Stewart in as the first Independent mayor of Vancouver in more than 30…

The Russian parliament will soon pass an amendment introducing criminal responsibility for executing sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States, a high-ranking member of the parliamentary majority caucus has said. The idea was proposed by State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin last week, when the parliament discussed legislation to counter the latest round of anti-Russian…

It seems the ever-popular TV adaption of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones fantasy series and the remaining books will potentially have some important discrepancies from each other, according to the writer. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Martin explains that he actually doesn’t yet know how the show will end. “I haven’t read the…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – National champion Virginia Wesleyan University was the pick of its peers as the 2017 NFCA’s NCAA Division III National Coaching Staff of the Year, the Association revealed on Monday. Head coach Brandon Elliott and assistants Jim Insana, Jim Quinn and Josh Freeman had previously been selected as the NFCA Division III Atlantic…

MONTREAL — Criticism of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by the wife of Coalition Avenir Quebec Leader Francois Legault raised questions Wednesday about how a possible Coalition government would get along with the federal Liberals. In a newly emerged recording, Isabelle Brais, Legault’s wife, can be heard telling a party meeting last month that while Trudeau’s…

The Upper House Commission for the Protection of State Sovereignty has registered more than 1,000 incidents of the western mass media meddling in the recent Russian presidential polls. The overall number of negative reports relating to the election was some 55 times bigger than ones with a positive outlook. “Over the period of our monitoring…

In an alleged e-mail that went out to various Microsoft employees, Xbox head Phil Spencer reportedly said the Google Stadia announcement had “no big surprises,” and that Xbox in turn will “go big” at E3 2019. Thurrott, a website known for reporting on and leaking Xbox news, claims it got hold of this e-mail. “We…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Texas Lutheran’s Maitlin Raycroft and Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Mallory Klotz captured Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division III National Pitcher and Player of the Week honors. Raycroft, a junior right-hander for the 19th-ranked (22-4) Bulldogs, set the Division III record for no-hitters in a season with her sixth in Sunday’s twinbill nightcap against Austin College. In the…

OTTAWA — In a sobering new report, the head of the United Nations says the security situation in Mali has sharply deteriorated over the past three months even as demand for more food aid and other humanitarian assistance has skyrocketed. The assessment by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres coincides with the presence of Canadian peacekeepers…