Albert Wagner 
Federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says she stopped at a recently built downtown Victoria rental apartment building Monday before meeting with British Columbia Premier David Eby, where housing was slated to top the agenda. Freeland says her stop at the 23-storey Hudson House helped her highlight Canada’s need to build more homes expeditiously. … Read more
RUSHVILLE, Ill. – Five people, including three children, were killed in western Illinois when a school bus and semitruck collided on a highway Monday, authorities said. The bus was traveling eastbound when it crossed the center line on U.S. Route 24 into the westbound lanes “for an unknown reason” and into the path … Read more
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday announced an additional US$100 million to finance the deployment of a multinational force mission to Haiti following a meeting with Caribbean leaders in Jamaica to halt the country’s violent crisis. Blinken also announced another US$33 million in humanitarian aid and the creation of a joint … Read more
Marine researchers on a mission to record life hidden in the world’s oceans have reported they found about 100 potential new species — including one mystery starlike creature. The expedition team focused its investigation on the 500-mile (800-kilometre) long Bounty Trough, a little-explored part of the ocean off the coast of New Zealand, east of … Read more
Ukraine’s foreign ministry summoned the papal nuncio on Monday to express “disappointment” with Pope Francis’ comments that Ukraine should “show the courage of the white flag” and open talks with Russia to end the two-year-old war. The pontiff made the comments in an interview with Swiss broadcaster RSI that is due to be … Read more
A longtime Mar-a-Lago employee who is a central witness in the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents is now speaking publicly because he believes that voters should hear the truth about his former boss and the case before the November election. Brian Butler, who is referenced as “Trump Employee 5” in … Read more
The United States and Canada have agreed to launch a joint probe into a long-running cross-border dispute involving pollution from coal mines in British Columbia flowing into American waters. “Our two countries are committed to a collaborative, science, and Indigenous knowledge based, action-oriented path forward,” said a joint statement from U.S. ambassador to … Read more
Wedne Colin says he feels like he’s leading a “double life,” living in Montreal but constantly worrying for his family in Haiti. Colin says his family members have had to flee their homes several times to find a place that’s safe from the armed gangs he says have seized control of the capital … Read more
Archaeologists in Turkiye have discovered groundbreaking evidence connecting prehistoric facial piercings to the bodies of the people who wore them. Personal adornment — including earring-like objects thought to be worn as piercings — has been documented among Neolithic or late Stone Age peoples in multiple locations across southwest Asia, with evidence from as … Read more
Bereaved families who lost loved ones to Covid have accused the former Welsh health minister of incompetence and arrogance after he revealed that all his WhatsApp messages from the time had been lost. Vaughan Gething, who is standing to be the next Welsh first minister, said the messages had been a way of “blowing off … Read more
