OTTAWA – The Conservatives moved Wednesday to make carbon pricing the ballot box question in the next federal election, seizing on public anxiety about affordability and seeing a crack in the Liberal government’s carbon-price armour. “A carbon tax election,” Leader Pierre Poilievre proposed in a speech to his caucus in Ottawa. Last week, the Liberals … Read more
Taxes on tunnel-smuggled goods and international donors make Hamas the second-richest terror group in the world after the Islamic State Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, right, with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, arriving for the corner-stone laying ceremony of a new residential neighbourhood in the Gaza Strip in 2012. Photo by Mohammed … Read more
Republicans are cheering the cancellation of two offshore wind farms that would have been built off the coast of New Jersey. The company Orsted announced Tuesday it was canceling its planned Ocean Wind 1 and 2 projects, which would have generated electricity via wind in the Atlantic Ocean. The move was met with cheers from … Read more
Lucy Allard, 5, and her brother Zeke Allard, 8, set up crosses Saturday in honor of the victims of the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine. (Matt Rourke / Associated Press) A history of mental illness. An array of weapons. Law enforcement knew about his potential for violence. But he was still able to own guns … Read more
Rajkot (Gujarat) [India], June 21 (ANI): At least 200 women in Gujarat’s Rajkot performed ‘Aqua yoga’ in a swimming pool to mark the 9th International Yoga Day celebrations. on Wednesday. All woman yoga practitioners were seen performing underwater yoga at ease. In a similar attempt, a group of Yoga practitioners performed ‘Jal Yoga’ in Tamil … Read more
TORONTO – The federal government says it expects the flow of foreign nationals leaving the war-torn Gaza Strip to Egypt will continue in the coming days, even as Canadians had been warned that their safety could not be guaranteed if they chose to make the trip. Global Affairs Canada said Wednesday night that it was … Read more
Mayors of five large American cities are pressing President Biden for a meeting on migrants coming into their cities. The mayors of Denver, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and New York City told Biden in a letter obtained by The Associated Press that they require federal help in handling an influx of migrants in their cities. … Read more
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video King Charles has issued a chilling warning about artificial intelligence as the AI Safety Summit began today. He hailed AI as ‘one of the greatest technological leaps in the history of human endeavour’ but warned of the … Read more
New York [US], June 21 (ANI): People have gathered in huge numbers ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading the International Day of Yoga celebration at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The people could be seen celebrating before the event by raising the tricolour and chanting ‘Modi Modi’ slogans outside the UN Headquarters. … Read more
OTTAWA – Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says the central bank held its key interest rate at five per cent in part because of the effect a wave of upcoming mortgage renewals is expected to have on the economy. Macklem appeared before a Senate committee alongside senior deputy governor Carolyn Rogers on Wednesday following … Read more