CALGARY — WestJet says it is indefinitely suspending operations to Moncton, N.B, Fredericton, Sydney, N.S., and Charlottetown, while significantly reducing service to Halifax and St. John’s, N.L. The airline is also suspending operations between Toronto and Quebec City. WestJet says the suspension eliminates more than 100 flights weekly starting Nov. 2. Watch: Airline COVID-19 testing […]
OTTAWA — Canadians appear to be turning against mandatory COVID-19 inoculations whenever a vaccine becomes available, with a new poll suggesting the number of people opposed to the idea is growing. The poll by Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies is the latest to take the public’s temperature during the COVID-19 pandemic, and comes […]
British Columbia held its only debate of the snap election campaign Tuesday night, and those looking for the fireworks of the recent U.S. presidential debate were likely disappointed by the relatively polite and calm discourse on stage. Where the Donald Trump-Joe Biden battle was full of interruptions, outrage and very little substance, Tuesday’s event, broadcast […]
Israel has detained six individuals on Sunday who may have ties to the murder of a Palestinian teenager, Mohammad Abu Khdair, who was abducted near his home in East Jerusalem earlier this week and later found burned to death in a wooded area outside the city. According to Al-Jazeera: Also on Sunday, an Israeli court […]
Click:cheap geotextile manufacturer Nearly thirty Palestinians were killed overnight after Israel escalated its ongoing barrage of the Gaza Strip with a ground invasion that included IDF troops and tanks crossing the border, new waves of heavy artillery fire, and a surge in airstrikes from above. According to the Ma’an news agency, twenty-eight people are confirmed […]
It’s estimated that 9 million barrels of crude oil are moving over the rail lines of North America at any given moment. Oil trains charging through Virginia, North Dakota, Alabama, and Canada’s Quebec, New Brunswick, and Alberta provinces have derailed and exploded, resulting in severe environmental damage and, in the case of Quebec, considerable human […]
The medical needs and therefore constitutional rights of Chelsea Manning continue to be ignored during her incarceration, a fact that has prompted the threat of a lawsuit by her lawyer and the American Civil Liberties Union. Manning is currently serving a 35-year sentence at Ft. Leavenworth for releasing a trove of government and military documents, […]
A decade of records from four U.S. appeals courts and one bankruptcy court were lost earlier this month when the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) quietly deleted a massive amount of data that was “incompatible” with an impending upgrade. “As of August 10, the following information will no longer be available on PACER,” […]
A Yemeni man who lost two family members to a U.S. drone strike is suing the German government for its role in the attacks through its hosting of a U.S. military installation—Ramstein Air Base— which is critical to the covert drone war. “Were it not for the help of Germany and Ramstein, men like my […]
Fernando Alonso offered his first impressions on his return behind the wheel with Renault on Tuesday, insisting the Enstone outfit’s R.S.20 predictably outperformed him in the shakedown run. Alonso completed 100km at the Circuit de Catalunya at Barcelona as Renault took advantage of a remaining filming day to provide the Spaniard with an opportunity to […]