Empire star Terrence Howard showed support for his fellow co-star Jussie Smollett against claims that he orchestrated a fake hate crime against himself, declaring that the man he knows could never “even conceive of something so unconscious and ugly.” Smollett turned himself into police on Thursday morning on charges of filing a false police report, after investigators concluded […]
Pressure is growing on Theresa May to set out her Brexit plan. The EU’s insistence that for the duration of any transition phase Britain will remain subject to the bloc’s regulations and have no say over any new rules has enraged Brexiteers. Now the prime minister has to come up with an outline for a […]
Daily Show host Trevor Noah took aim at former Vice President Joe Biden’s over recent allegations he inappropriately touched several women, declaring that such behavior is “definitely not OK” and “sounds super creepy.” Having already developed a reputation for being overly touchy-feely with women, Biden has recently been subject to two separate allegations from women claiming […]
The Bayern Munich star had an offer from Manchester during his Borussia Dortmund days and he was keen on the move Bayern Munich star Robert Lewandowski says he considered joining Manchester United when he received a call from Sir Alex Ferguson. Lewandowski got the call in 2012, when he was 23 and had just scored […]
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar | Kamil Zihnioglu/AFP via Getty Images Varadkar ‘surprised and disappointed’ at Brexit talks failure Irish PM said a deal had been agreed. By Ken Murray 12/4/17, 7:28 PM CET Updated 12/4/17, 7:29 PM CET DUBLIN — Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar expressed major disappointment at U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May […]
OTTAWA — Canadian medical experts say the country’s already overstretched emergency rooms would find it difficult to cope if a true outbreak of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, were to take hold in Canada. So far, the virus has been relatively contained to mainland China, thanks in part to one of the largest quarantines in […]
ST-LAMBERT, Que. — A blockade south of Montreal that halted rail traffic and frayed nerves since Wednesday was abandoned late Friday after riot police arrived to enforce a court injunction. The roughly two dozen protesters, acting in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs contesting a British Columbia natural gas pipeline, had begun dismantling the encampment earlier in […]
TORONTO — Tim Hortons is overhauling its popular Roll Up the Rim to Win campaign after 35 years, leaving some customers with a bitter taste in their mouth. The coffee and doughnut chain says it’s trying to keep up with the times by modernizing the program with a new focus on being environmentally friendly while […]
MONTREAL — As the rail blockades that have paralyzed cross-country transportation enter their third week, a growing number of commentators are drawing comparisons with the spectre of the Oka crisis. Thirty years after that dark period in Canada’s relationship with Indigenous Peoples, what have governments learned? “It’s obvious that political authorities are traumatized, with reason, […]
OTTAWA — No one should construe the co-operation between Canada and China on the novel coronavirus outbreak as a sign that relations between them are returning to normal, Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said Friday. Canada has been able to repatriate 550 Canadians since the outbreak with the help of Japanese and Chinese officials, Champagne […]