“This is a red alert type of situation.” A wildfire burns 13 kilometres outside the townsite of Jasper, inside Jasper National Park, on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. Zachary Delaney/PostmediaPhoto by Zachary Delaney /mon HALIFAX — As Canada’s premiers reckoned with housing, health care and their contentious relationship with Ottawa during meetings last week in Halifax, … Read more
Former Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police officer Adrian Gonzales arrives at the Uvalde County Courthouse on Thursday in Uvalde, Texas. Gonzales made his first court appearance on charges of abandoning and failing to protect children. (Eric Gay / Associated Press) A former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer who was part of the slow law … Read more
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman reportedly donated $7 million to Vice President Kamala Harris — and then promptly demanded that she fire Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan. Hoffman — who sparked controversy for saying he wished Donald Trump was an “actual martyr” days before the July 13 assassination attempt on the former president — claimed … Read more
The owner of building the city of Montreal planned to buy is now refusing to sell it to the city, but Mayor Valérie Plante’s office says negotiations are continuing. A building in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough in Montreal that the city wants to use as a homeless shelter is seen Thursday, July 11, 2024.Photo by John … Read more
Army officers stand guard as police officers patrol in Lashio, Myanmar, on May 29, 2013. Lashio houses the regional military headquarters. (Ain Khaing Myae / Associated Press) Ethnic armed groups claimed on Thursday to have captured two strategically important towns in northeastern Myanmar: Lashio, which houses the major regional military headquarters, and Mogok, the center … Read more
She wanted weight loss — but instead, she lost money and self-esteem. UK mother Julia Lanni, 58, says she bellied up about $155 last summer for 16 fat-dissolving Aqualyx injections in her stomach in the hopes they would boost her body confidence. What she got was a 2.75-inch hole in her stomach that required emergency … Read more
These three titles help make even the very young aware of Indigenous culture and accomplishments. Freddie the Flyer tells the life story of the first Indigenous commercial pilot in the Arctic.Image: Tundra Books Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through our links on this page. Indigenous authors and illustrators have contributed a … Read more
In this 2005 photo, a B-1 bomber takes off from Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota. (Nati Harnik / Associated Press) A fiery January crash of a B-1 bomber in South Dakota was caused by multiple crew failures, terrible winter weather and a last-minute brush with wind shear that resulted in all four members … Read more
A Paramount Global investor has sued to block its merger with Skydance Media, saying the deal would cost its shareholders $1.65 billion, according to a lawsuit filed in Delaware’s Chancery Court on Wednesday. David Ellison’s Skydance Media bagged a deal to acquire Paramount early in July, ending months of discussion and speculation about the future of one of Hollywood’s oldest … Read more
Stylish stars are toting the latest “It” bag on the market: the Courrèges Holy Bag. Last month, trendsetter Hailey Bieber clutched the toffee-hued handbag while hitting the streets of New York, and both Dua Lipa and Emma Chamberlain have also sported the satchel. At Courrèges’ Paris Fashion Week runway show — during which the Holy Bag … Read more
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