LONDRES – La organización benéfica de conservación fundada por el Príncipe William, segundo en la línea del trono británico y quien lanzó el Premio Earthshot, mantiene sus inversiones en un banco que es uno de los mayores patrocinadores de combustibles fósiles del mundo, según supo The Associated Press. La Fundación Real también coloca más de […]

Expect delays or adjust your route: The Ministry of Transportation has scheduled 33 closures in Peel on August 19 for roadworks on Highway 401, Highway 403, Highway 410, Highway 427 and the Queen Elizabeth Way. 401 Freeway Eastbound between 407 and Winston Churchill Boulevard: Two left lanes closed until 5 a.m. Aug. 20 Highway 401 […]

Explosions erupted overnight near military bases deep within Russian-held areas of Ukraine and in Russia itself, an apparent display of Kyiv’s growing ability to wreak havoc on Moscow’s logistics far from front lines. Ukraine also issued a new warning about a frontline nuclear power station where it said it believed Moscow was planning a “large-scale […]

Plan your trip before you get in your car: The Ministry of Transportation scheduled 58 closures in Toronto on August 19 for road works on Highway 400, Highway 401, Highway 404, Highway 409, Highway 427 and Queen Elizabeth Way. Northbound 400 Freeway between Maple Leaf Drive and Canal Road: One alternate lane closed until 5 […]

Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local news File photo. Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images . Many Albertans struggle to find family doctors and face long wait times for medical care, according to a new survey from the Alberta Medical Association. Announcement 2 This ad has not been uploaded yet, but its article continues below. . Results […]

There are a lot of ways to get around downtown Peterborough, Ont., but none quite like PedalBoro. The 15-person party bike is back. Hillary Flood and Pete Rellinger own and operate the business and said they had to pump the brakes during the pandemic, but Flood said she is happy things are rolling again. “It […]

Ceilidh Fear is typically a bargain shopper. But the mother of two is planning to splurge a little on a back-to-school shopping trip. “It’s the one time of year other than Christmas that I do believe in buying them brand new outfits,” said the Victoria, B.C.-based mom of kids aged nine and 11. “Otherwise I […]

WASHINGTON- Last week’s attack on author Salman Rushdie and the indictment of an Iranian national for plotting to assassinate former national security adviser John Bolton have given the Biden administration new headaches as it tries to negotiate a return to the 2015 nuclear deal with the United States. Iran. A resolution may be tantalizingly close. […]

As of Friday, individuals and businesses are no longer able to import restricted handguns into Canada, with limited exceptions. The move announced earlier this month is aimed at expediting a key pillar of the federal effort to cap the number of handguns in the country. In May, the Liberal government announced a plan to implement […]

Expect delays or plan an alternate route: The Department of Transportation scheduled 34 closures in Simcoe on August 19 for roadworks on Highway 11, Highway 12, Highway 26, Highway 400, Highway 89 and Highway 93. Northbound 11 Freeway between Goldstein Road and Simcoe Road 169: One alternate lane closed until 9 a.m. Aug. 22 Highway […]

Lab Grown Diamonds have become so popular with consumers that some couples ask jewelers to exchange the natural diamond on their rings for a lab-created flare. “Just last week we had three or four couples who have been married for a few years come to us about upgrading the diamond in the engagement ring,” […]

Breadcrumb Trail Links columnists The net effect of threats and violence is to discourage women, particularly from minority groups, from participating in public affairs. Publication date: August 19, 2022 • 30 minutes ago • 3 minute read • join the conversation Senator Bernadette Clement, who before her appointment was Cornwall’s first black female mayor, says […]

OTTAWA- The federal diversity minister says he is taking action over “disturbing” tweets from a senior consultant about an anti-racism project that received $133,000 from his department. Ahmed Hussen has asked Canadian Heritage to “take a close look at the situation” after what he called “unacceptable behaviour” by Laith Marouf, a senior consultant involved in […]

Breadcrumb Trail Links Opinion Cities like Paris, London and Copenhagen are opening municipal rivers and lakes for recreational swimming, with surprising benefits Publication date: August 19, 2022 • 14 minutes ago • 3 minute read • join the conversation Author and former MP Catherine McKenna crosses the line for the 2022 4K Riverkeeper Open Water […]

BESTIA: 3 ESTRELLAS Esta imagen difundida por Universal Pictures muestra a Leah Jeffries, en el sentido de las agujas del reloj desde la izquierda, Idris Elba e (Iyana Halley en una escena de “Beast”. (Lauren Mulligan/Universal Pictures vía AP) “Beast”, una nueva película sobre la naturaleza enloquecida protagonizada por Idris Elba y un gran león […]

Breadcrumb Trail Links Opinion Columnists ‘I can explain the situation (of Afghan refugees in Pakistan), but I can’t express their pain.’ Three Afghan women in Islamabad, Pakistan, who hope to come to Canada: Rokhshana, Zuhal, Tahmina (left to right). Photo by Corey Levine /jpg Article content One year ago this week, the fundamentalist Taliban re-entered […]

ZOLOCHIV, Ukraine – Dr. Ilona Butova almost looks out of place in her neatly pressed lavender gown as she walks through a door frame hanging from a crumbling wall into what used to be an administrative office at her hospital in Zolochiv. No building at the facility in the northeastern Ukrainian city near the Russian […]

KWANONGOMA, South Africa (AP) — The ethnic Zulu nation of South Africa is preparing to host a coronation event for its new traditional king amid internal divisions that have threatened to tear the royal family apart. King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini, son of the late King Goodwill Zwelithini, who died in March last year, will undergo […]

Breadcrumb Trail Links columnists Writer Bob Chartier celebrates the joys and noise of life in downtown Inglewood. Photo by Darren Makowichuk /post media . It’s an old downtown situation that happens every summer: the tree-lined streets aren’t necessarily very quiet, like most other neighborhoods. The downtown neighborhoods have movement, energy and sound. Sometimes the sound […]

Nell Toussaint knew what was at stake. Diagnosed with diabetes and other chronic ailments, she understood that if left untreated, the day might come when she would lose a limb, her vision, and even her kidneys. That is why she had pleaded with the Canadian government as early as 2010 to grant her and other […]

From virtual classes to daily COVID-19 checks and mandatory masks, children across Canada have weathered enormous changes in their learning since schooling was disrupted in March 2020.  Over the course of seven waves and numerous variants and subvariants, more than five million elementary and high school students have also had to grapple with […]

A banner bearing a phrase coined by one of America’s most famous white supremacists hung over a busy Calgary street one August weekend. The image popping up around the internet is the only thing that remains. And that might have been the point. The banner that hung over Macleod Trail used a phrase penned by […]

OTTAWA- Starting today, individuals and businesses can no longer import restricted handguns into Canada, with limited exceptions. The measure announced earlier this month is intended to accelerate a key pillar of the federal effort to limit the number of firearms in the country. In May, the Liberal government announced a plan to freeze the import, […]

After more than two years, Ontario’s temporary layoff measure put in place in the early days of COVID-19 has ended. Now, experts say there could be a new wave of lawsuits from workers who were “left in limbo” during a temporary layoff. When the pandemic hit in 2020, many workers were temporarily laid off as […]

Kyiv, Ukraine – Residents of two villages in Russia’s Belgorod region on Ukraine’s northeastern border were evacuated after a fire broke out in an ammunition depot near the village of Timonovo, the region’s governor said on Friday. There were no casualties in the Thursday night fire, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. The fire came days after […]

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the climatic table collaboration. Scientists from Australia and the US have launched an ambitious multi-million dollar project to bring back the thylacine, a marsupial that became extinct in the 1930s, and reintroduce it to its natural habitat. Tasmanian. The thylacine, also […]

BANGKOK- China’s response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan was anything but subtle, sending warships and military aircraft to all sides of the self-governing democratic island and firing missiles. ballistics to nearby waters. The dust has yet to settle, with Taiwan this week holding its own drills and Beijing announcing that it […]

Residents of Kemptville, south of Ottawa, are taking their fight against plans to build a jail on farmland to court. Earlier this week, Victor Lachance and Kirk Albert sought a judicial review of Ontario’s proposal to build a 235-bed correctional facility in the city of 4,000 people, about 50 kilometers south of Canada’s capital, in […]

A Chinese-born Canadian tycoon who disappeared from Hong Kong in 2017 was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for a multibillion-dollar string of financial offenses and his company was fined $8.1 billion, a court announced. Xiao Jianhua was convicted of misusing billions of dollars of deposits from banks and insurers controlled by his Tomorrow […]

Seoul, South Korea – The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said her country would never accept South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s “foolish” offer of economic benefits in exchange for denuclearization measures, accusing Seoul of recycling proposals Pyongyang has already rejected. In a comment published by state media on Friday, Kim Yo […]