Travelers wait in Terminal 1 for check-in at Hamburg Airport, in Hamburg, Germany, (Bodo Marks / Associated Press) A global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks offline and media outlets off air on Friday in a massive disruption that affected companies and services around the world and highlighted dependence on software from a handful of … Read more
More Chinese students are electing to study at home, where China’s universities are out-ranking Canadian schools Chinese students at the presitigous Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.Photo by Getty Images When 19-year-old Ricky Liu was applying for universities in the fall of 2022, one thing occupied his mind: how to score a seat at a top-ranked … Read more
Police found the men lying on 25th Ave. near Robert Blvd. around 1:50 a.m. An ambulance in Montreal.Photo by Dave Sidaway /Montreal Gazette Montreal police have set up a crime scene perimeter on 25th Ave. near Robert Blvd. in the city’s St-Michel district after two men were wounded by gunfire early Friday. Police said they … Read more
The incident happened on Henri-Bourassa Blvd. near Hébert St. around 11:50 p.m. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette files A man who collided with a car as he drove an electric bicycle in the borough of Montreal North late Thursday remained in hospital in critical condition on Friday. Montreal police said they were informed of … Read more
About 30 Montreal Chest Institute employees donned straw cowboy hats and learned line dancing to prep for the MUHC’s Got Talent show. Marie-Hélène Laramée, President and CEO of the MUHC Foundation, takes part a in line dancing activity outside the hospital on Thursday July 18, 2024.Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Montreal Gazette When she completed medical … Read more
Less construction but more traffic? Only in Quebec. Traffic winds its way through construction on the Concorde Bridge toward downtown Montreal in June.Photo by Dave Sidaway /Montreal Gazette Quebec’s unique construction holiday begins Sunday, giving most of the province’s construction workers a summer vacation. This year, the annual vacation starts on July 21 and runs … Read more
Anti-Israel protester disrupts live taping of Harley Finkelstein’s podcast to accuse guest Heather Reisman of genocide FILE: Shopify President Harley Finkelstein is pictured at the company’s headquarters in Ottawa, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022.Photo by Sean Kilpatrick /The Canadian Press An anti-Israel protester disrupted a podcast hosted by the Jewish president of Shopify, to accuse a … Read more
A downtown L.A. street during the 1938 flood. (Los Angeles Times) Book Review The California Sky Watcher: Understanding Weather Patterns and What Comes Next By William A. SelbyHeyday Books: 384 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The winter before … Read more
In this historic Black neighborhood in Milwaukee, the Biden question is met with indifference Lisa Collins sat in the shade of a green ash tree Wednesday in the Milwaukee neighborhood of Lindsay Heights handing out free hot dogs and hamburgers as part of a “joyful rebellion” against the nearby Republican National Convention. Though she plans … Read more
An oft-abused law prevents a lot of home construction in California and drives up the cost of each new home by hundreds of thousands of dollars. (Paul Sakuma / Associated Press) Latinos in California face significant disparities in income, homeownership and education compared with their counterparts in other states with substantial Latino populations such as … Read more
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