WASHINGTON — A new era in North American free trade dawned in the dead of night Sunday as a 14-month NAFTA modernization effort between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico finally came to fruition with just hours to spare before an end-of-weekend deadline. What began as a marathon in the summer of 2017 ended in a…
The CEO of Vancouver-based Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) is acknowledging the company’s historic exclusion of people of colour from its campaigns, website and catalogue, and his intention to address whitewashing in Canada’s outdoor industry as a whole. “White athletes hold the spotlight in advertising, while the diversity that exists and continues to grow in outdoor…
In a stinging rebuke to President Donald Trump, the House of Representatives on Tuesday brushed aside veto threats and passed legislation to terminate the emergency he declared at the US-Mexico border in order to build a wall there. By a vote of 245-182, the House passed the resolution, setting up a vote in the Republican-controlled Senate where…
June is stroke awareness month in Canada. The third leading cause of death in this country is also the leading cause of long-term disability here and around the world. In Canada, 62 000 individuals experience a stroke every year, which works out to be one stroke every nine minutes. There are currently more than 400,000…
A group of prisoners in Florida put their criminal skills to good use on Valentine’s Day – breaking into a car, to free a baby locked inside. The prisoners, on work-release, were repairing parking meters in Pasco County, north of Tampa, when they spotted the family in distress. The one-year-old child was trapped inside the…
Being a fan of something or someone requires a lot of dedication. Being a superfan is an entire other level. The Royal Family has a vast number of fans, but an exclusive few are at every event supporting the royals in every way they can, and try to get their hands on every souvenir they…
OTTAWA — Canada’s telecom regulator says the average household spent nearly $223 every month on communications services, including mobile phones, landlines, internet and cable TV in 2016. But low-income households are spending exponentially more than higher income earners as a percentage of their income, according to the CRTC’s latest Communications Monitoring Report. The snapshot of…
According to her older sister Sahima, Shamima Begum was like any other 15-year-old girl, with the same hobbies, the same worries and infatuations which preoccupy the minds of most British teens. “She was into normal teenage things,” Sahima said. “She used to watch Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” At 15, Shamima’s young mind was filled…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his office did not leak details of a reported split between himself and his former justice minister over a Supreme Court appointment. But Trudeau would not say Thursday if he would support an investigation into how the media obtained confidential information about the appointment process — a probe Jody Wilson-Raybould…
When a lottery scammer based in Jamaica targeted a 90-year-old American man, he thought he had hit the jackpot. It just so happened that fraudster Keniel Thomas’ would-be victim was none other than William Webster, the only man to lead both the FBI and the CIA. When Mr Webster, who is now 94, and his…