MONTREAL — The owners of a private long-term care home in suburban Montreal where dozens of residents died during the COVID-19 pandemic in March and April displayed “organizational negligence,” according to a new report. The Quebec government released the report into Residence Herron on Wednesday, as well as a separate report that looked into a public […]
HALIFAX — The centre of post-tropical storm Teddy made landfall in eastern Nova Scotia on Wednesday morning, delivering another round of punishing winds and heavy rain — almost a day after its outer bands started lashing the Maritimes. Bob Robichaud, a meteorologist at the Canadian Hurricane Centre in Halifax, said the sprawling, ragged storm came ashore […]
Shortly following Sen. Susan Collins’ (R-Maine) announcement that she plans to vote against the latest iteration of Trumpcare—likely dealing a death blow to deeply unpopular legislation that was already teetering on the edge of collapse—Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) piled it on the GOP Monday night in a CNN-hosted debate against the […]
With an explosive interview to the New York Times that dominated national headlines on Monday, Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee unleashed on his party’s leader as he accused President Donald Trump of treating his office like “a reality show” and said his reckless behavior could lead to World War III. “He concerns me,” Corker […]
A federal judge refused to erase history Thursday, stating that former Sheriff Joe Arpaio is still guilty of criminal contempt of court for defying orders to stop racially profiling Latinos—despite President Donald Trump’s pardon of Arpaio in August. The pardon did not “revise the historical facts of this case,” said U.S. District Judge Susan Ritchie […]
Animal-protection advocates were outraged on Thursday over the Trump administration’s decision to reverse a ban on imported elephant trophies from Zambia and Zimbabwe. The Elephant Project called the move “reprehensible” and declared, “One hundred elephants a day are already killed. This will lead to more poaching.” Although elephants are endangered species, hunters can pay government […]
With the release of its National Climate Assessment on Friday, the U.S. government has released a report—which states the current period is “now the warmest in the history of modern civilization”—that critics say directly and irrefutably undermines the climate denialism and inaction of President Donald Trump and his administration. “Even as this report sounds the […]
A day ahead of the one-year anniversary President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday sharply criticized the president’s performance during his first year in office, calling him “an international embarrassment” in an interview on MSNBC. “Has it really only been one year? I thought it was about 16 years,” Sanders joked, before […]
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by Amazon Polly It has fallen to a technocratic, deadpan former Latvian prime minister to reset the world’s biggest economic relationship. In a speech last week, the EU’s new trade chief-designate Valdis Dombrovskis said he had already spoken to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and cast himself […]
VANCOUVER — Health care workers in Canada made up about 20 per cent of COVID-19 infections as of late July, a figure that was higher than the global average. In a report released earlier this month, the Canadian Institute for Health Information said 19.4 per cent of those who tested positive for the virus as […]