BOSTON — Actress Felicity Huffman has agreed to plead guilty in the sweeping college admissions cheating scam that has ensnared wealthy parents and athletic coaches at some of the nation’s most selective universities, federal authorities said Monday. The “Desperate Housewives” star and 12 other prominent parents will admit to charges in the scheme, which authorities […]
OTTAWA — Canada’s electricity providers say they need to appeal to a younger and more diverse workforce if they’re going to keep the country’s lights on. A new report on the industry’s labour needs from Electricity Human Resources Canada suggests at least 20,500 new workers will be needed in power plants and transmission systems before […]
Julian Assange, the controversial founder of Wikileaks, was arrested Thursday in London on charges of breaching bail conditions in a Swedish rape case that’s no longer under investigation. He was further arrested in relation to an extradition warrant on behalf of the United States, Metropolitan Police said. The 47-year-old computer programmer was arrested after his […]
OTTAWA — The Liberal government is taking steps to stem the tide of asylum seekers who’ve been crossing into Canada from the U.S. at unofficial border crossings. Tucked into this year’s 392-page omnibus budget bill, which arrived in the House of Commons Monday evening, is a provision that would prevent anyone who has made a […]
OTTAWA — Rob Nicholson, the longest-serving Conservative member of Parliament, isn’t running for re-election in the fall. Nicholson, who was first elected in 1984 in Niagara Falls and held cabinet posts for more than a decade, says it’s time for him to focus on his family. The 66-year-old has spent 24 years as an MP […]
Yesterday, HBO released a new teaser video for Season 7 of Game of Thrones, and while it showed us not a single frame of the actual season, one thing is clear: Winter is here. There's a chill in Westeros, as Cersei Lannister’s visible breath shows, and things are only going to get colder. But climate […]
Frank Ockenfels 3 In 1990, American TV viewers were introduced to the bucolic town of Twin Peaks, Washington—and to creator David Lynch’s creepy-campy propensity for distorting the mundane. In its short two-season run, the neonoir series netted a pile of awards, earned a cult following, and reset expectations for what a TV show could be, […]
Ever since the first trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi hit the internet, fans have sensed a great disturbance in the Force. In its final moments, Luke Skywalker, whose path to Jedi-hood filled an entire trilogy, proclaimed the one truth he had learned: "It's time for the Jedi to end." It's nice to see […]
One of the biggest news stories this week is a cover-up, a deception manufactured by hyper-partisan ideologues trying to distract from a burning, uncomfortable truth. That truth—the one those biased muckrakers won’t tell you about—has implications for national security. It shows the corruption and self-interest eating away at the United State’s most hallowed institutions. And […]
After an endless wait that felt like being trapped in a time loop, Doctor Who finally returned last night. But while the Season 10 premiere featured plenty of the usual time-traveling madness, it paid fealty to another major sci-fi influence—one that Who fans might already be familiar with, but establishes a surprising direction for the […]