Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Plane that crashed with fugitives was overweight, heading for Toronto: Witness
VANCOUVER - A woman who knew the pilot of a fatal flight that killed two men wanted in separate murder plots says he told her he was heading for Toronto and was concerned about the plane’s weigh...
May 12, 2022
Jan. 6 panel subpoenas McCarthy, four other GOP lawmakers
WASHINGTON (AP) - House investigators said Thursday they have issued subpoenas to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers as part of their probe into the violent Jan. 6 ins...
May 12, 2022
B.C. mine environment safeguards whittled down by amendments, university study says
Some environmental safeguards built into British Columbia mine approvals are being gradually whittled away without enough public or scientific oversight, says new university research. A recently publi...
May 12, 2022
Mediated talks collapse, strike continues in lengthy Sea-to-Sky transit dispute
VANCOUVER - A quick return of bus service in B.C.’s Sea-to-Sky corridor from Squamish to Pemberton isn’t expected after mediated talks broke down between transit workers and their employer...
May 12, 2022
White House, senators have ‘sympathy’ for Canada’s position on Line 5, says Wilkinson
WASHINGTON - Canada’s natural resources minister says he is hearing “significant sympathy” from U.S. officials for the plight of the Line 5 pipeline. Jonathan Wilkinson is in Washing...
May 12, 2022
Latvia seeks Canadian support for expanded, permanent NATO presence in Baltics
OTTAWA - Latvia’s prime minister is in Ottawa today seeking Canada’s support for an expanded, permanent NATO force in his country and fellow Baltic states Lithuania and Estonia. In an inte...
May 12, 2022
Delayed Southeast Asian Games begin in Vietnam’s capital
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - The Southeast Asian Games officially kicked off Thursday with a mask-optional opening ceremony in Vietnam’s capital, the first major gathering in the country since the star...
May 12, 2022
Family of Montreal man killed by police in 2017 reaches settlement with city
MONTREAL - The family of a man shot dead by Montreal police has reached a settlement with the city in connection with a lawsuit they filed over his death. Pierre Coriolan died on June 27, 2017, when p...
May 12, 2022
Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Way’s huge black hole
WASHINGTON (AP) - The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies, inc...
May 12, 2022
Wickremesinghe chosen Sri Lanka PM in effort to end crisis
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Five-time former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was reappointed Thursday in an effort to bring stability to the island nation, engulfed in a political and eco...
May 12, 2022