Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will be sworn-in for a second, six-year term on Thursday despite his country’s continued economic spiral that has sparked the region’s worst ever migration crisis. Maduro’s new term will bring further international presssure on Caracas as dozens of countries have called his May re-election fraudulent and pledged not to recognise…
The Trudeau government and the Trump administration have found a rare patch of common ground at the NATO summit in Brussels — shared concern about a proposed Russian pipeline that would cross through the Baltic Sea into Germany. Canada has “significant concerns” with the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, which would bring gas from Russia…
The King of Malaysia renounced the throne on Sunday after weeks of speculation over his ill health and rumours that he had married a former Russian beauty queen in a secretive ceremony. The abdication of Muhammad V was announced by Malaysia’s National Palace, which mysteriously gave no hints as to why the monarch had taken…
The CEOs of three of Canada’s major grocery chains doubled down on their expectation that food prices will soon rise at their stores. Recent cost pressures on the industry, including rising minimum wages in some provinces, increased fuel and transportation costs and an ongoing trade war with the U.S., will soon result in some price…
If you’re not a die-hard royal fan, it can be hard to keep up with all the buzz about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding, let alone remember who is who in their respective families. Markle’s family, in particular, has only just been thrust into the spotlight and are not as well-known to the public….
A stone building in Pompeii that was used for training by gladiators has been reopened to the public after a painstaking three-year restoration, becoming an emblem of the renaissance of the ancient site. The House of the Gladiators collapsed eight years ago after days of heavy rain, with many of its precious frescoes damaged or…
TORONTO — Electric scooters are rolling into Waterloo, Ont., as Lime enters the Canadian market for the first time. The California-based company said its e-scooters became available in the city west of Toronto on Tuesday and it hopes to expand to other markets across the country eventually. Lime doesn’t use docking stations and instead allows…
Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison after being found guilty on a charge of subversion of state power, three years after he was detained in a crackdown on lawyers and activists. Mr Wang, 42, was the last case awaiting a verdict after Chinese authorities…
With new mortgage rules and higher interest rates putting the squeeze on Canadian homebuyers, some have found a new approach: Get the parents (or grandparents) to bankroll your purchase. The number of mortgages issued to people in the pre-war generation — aged 73 to 93 — jumped by a whopping 63 per cent in the…
I am a Pakistani Canadian. I live in Toronto but grew up in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, which is where I spent Eid. With my family scattered in Canada, we always make an effort to meet at our parent’s home in this beautiful city. I moved here from Pakistan in 2000. When my parents…