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DETROIT — Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U.S. from Minnesota to New York and Kentucky on Wednesday, prompting warnings to stay inside and exacerbating health risks for people already suffering from industrial pollution. The impacts are particularly hard on poor and minority communities that are more likely to live near […]
The US has charged an Iranian drug trafficker with intelligence ties to Tehran, a Canadian Hells Angel and another Canadian man in an alleged plot to carry out assassinations in the US. According to statements by the justice department and the Treasury on Monday, the alleged drug smuggler Naji Sharifi Zindashti, ran an assassination ring […]
Yet another Canadian community newspaper chain is going to court under our bankruptcy laws, but again it has nothing to do with it going out of business. This time it is more a legal power play to force its sale to largely American interests over the objections of its minority owner. Surrey, BC-based Black Press, […]
U.S. Consul General Roger C. Rigaud and Canadian Consul General Sandra Shaddick today joined UNHCR’s Head of Sub-Office for northern Mexico and local business, educational and political leaders in La Laguna for a productive discussion on how integrating asylum seekers and refugees into the regional economy can strengthen U.S.-Mexico-Canada nearshoring initiatives. Consuls General Rigaud and […]
Muriel Prichard, who owns Sun of a Beach in Sylvan Lake, received the award in Mississauga Local Sylvan Lake business owner Muriel Prichard was named as one of the Canadian International Black Women of Excellence at a ceremony in Mississauga. For Prichard being recognized means many things. “I have always had the mantra it doesn’t […]
Calgary-founded Bennett Jones has elected two new firm leaders, splitting the job held by outgoing chairman and chief executive officer Hugh MacKinnon. Current Toronto managing partner Dominique Hussey becomes the firm’s new CEO and John Mercury will be the next executive chair. Their terms begin Jan. 1. Source link
Liberal MP Greg Fergus stands during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Dec. 2, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick Liberal member of Parliament Greg Fergus has been elected the House of Commons Speaker in a historic mid-session vote, becoming the first Black person to hold the position in […]
Published Sept. 15, 2023 5:56 a.m. ET People walk the closed off streets at the Toronto International Film Festival, in Toronto, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette Ongoing strikes by Hollywood actors and writers have kept discussions about fair compensation and job protection at the forefront of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, […]
TAIPEI, Sept 9 (Reuters) – A U.S. and a Canadian warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Saturday, the U.S. Navy said, marking the second such joint mission since June and coinciding with the leaders of both countries attending the G20 summit in India. The U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet said the guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson and Canada’s HMCS Ottawa […]
Canadians will soon be able to access and apply for more federal government services online — from passports to payments, says Canada’s first minister of citizens’ services. From a report: Terry Beech says he’s also open to innovation and using new technologies like artificial intelligence to improve the way the government delivers services to Canadians. […]