Elon Musk is using his social media platform to promote misinformation about the U.S. presidential candidates in the lead up to the November election, amplifying false claims Wednesday about a Trump rally bomb threat and immigrants eating pets in Ohio. While Musk’s posting of provocative, incendiary content on X is nothing new, the speed with which he has promoted false … Read more
Health Minister Mark Holland is urging senators not to tweak the pharmacare bill he carefully negotiated with the NDP earlier this year. The bill would underpin a national, single-payer pharmacare program and allow the health minister to negotiate with provinces and territories to cover some diabetes and contraceptive medications. It was the … Read more
WASHINGTON – Warning: This article contains disturbing content. Reader discretion is advised A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Wednesday after an emotional hearing in which victims described being deceived by a … Read more
The transition from summer to fall signals the start of school, cooling weather and, unfortunately, the beginning of flu season. Health Canada and the World Health Organization recommend getting a flu shot every year, as flu viruses learn to evolve and the effectiveness of a shot decreases over time. But following the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines … Read more
NEW YORK CITY – MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions, including sexual harassment, and misrepresenting contestants’ odds at winning his new Amazon reality show’s US$5 million grand prize in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by five unnamed participants. The filing alleges that the multimillion-dollar company behind YouTube’s most popular channel failed to … Read more
Toronto Pearson International Airport has among the lowest customer satisfaction rankings among North America’s biggest airports once again, a new survey has found. J.D. Power published its annual North American Airport Satisfaction survey on Wednesday and ranked Canada’s busiest airport 20th out of 21 mega-sized airports when it comes to customer satisfaction. The Toronto airport … Read more
Boeing said on Wednesday the planemaker will temporarily furlough tens of thousands of employees after about 30,000 machinists went on strike on Friday, halting production of its 737 Max and other airplanes. “We are initiating temporary furloughs over the coming days that will impact a large number of US-based executives, managers and employees,” … Read more
In what appears to be a sophisticated, remote attack, pagers used by hundreds of members of militant group Hezbollah exploded almost simultaneously in Lebanon and Syria Tuesday, killing at least 12 people — including two children — and wounding thousands more. An American official said Israel briefed the U.S. on the operation — … Read more
LISBON, Portugal – More than 100 wildfires stretched thousands of firefighters to the limit in northern Portugal on Wednesday, with seven deaths since the worst spate of fires in recent years spread out of control over the weekend. Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro declared a state of calamity for the hardest-hit areas late … Read more
For 10 months, rumblings, lawsuits, law enforcement raids and mounting allegations of widespread sexual abuse had surrounded Sean “Diddy Combs. The business empire, cultural cachet and fatherly image he had cultivated in the decades since he became a hot young hip-hop mogul in the 1990s had begun to erode. On Tuesday, those ripples … Read more
