NEWSWORTHY
Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal Sep 21, 2018
Canada declares Myanmar treatment of Rohingya to be genocide
Canada's Parliament has unanimously adopted a motion declaring crimes committed against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar to be genocide. The motion Thursday also endorsed the findings of a United Nations mission that outlined how crimes against humanity have been committed by the Myanmar military against Rohingya ...
World / Crime & Legal Sep 17, 2018
An anti-Kremlin activist lost his sight, hearing and ability to walk in a suspected poisoning last week but is doing better since he arrived in Berlin for treatment, two friends said Sunday. Pyotr Verzilov, publisher of a Russian online news outlet and affiliated with the ...
World / Science & Health Sep 14, 2018
A lonely narwhal that strayed far from its Arctic habitat has apparently found a new family in a pod of belugas in Canada's Saint Lawrence River, a marine conservation group said Thursday. The juvenile narwhal — identifiable from its tusk and gray spots — was ...
Business / Tech Sep 14, 2018
Uber revs up Canadian operations with new AI funding for Toronto self-driving car lab
American ride-sharing service Uber said Thursday it would spend 200 million Canadian dollars ($154 million) over five years to expand its Toronto lab dedicated to developing artificial intelligence for self-driving cars. The company also will open a new engineering office in Canada's largest metropolis in ...
Entertainment News Sep 10, 2018
Search on after German pop star apparently leaps from cruise liner off Labrador
Search and rescue workers were actively seeking Sunday a German pop star who went missing while on a cruise off Canada's coast, the Royal Canadian Navy said. The 33-year-old pop singer, Daniel Kueblboeck, was believed to have jumped off the AIDAluna cruise ship about 200 ...
World / Crime & Legal Sep 7, 2018
Britain, France, Germany, Canada and the United States pledged on Thursday to work to disrupt "the hostile activities of foreign intelligence networks" and called on Russia to disclose its nerve agent program. In a joint statement, the other four countries said they backed Britain's assessment ...
Business Sep 4, 2018
President Donald Trump started his Labor Day with an attack on a top union leader, lashing out after criticism from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Trump tweeted Monday that Trumka "represented his union poorly on television this weekend." He added: "it is easy to see why ...
Editorials Sep 3, 2018
Donald Trump has created substantial uncertainty regarding trade in North America and that will unnerve businesses.
World / Politics | ANALYSIS Sep 3, 2018
When President Donald Trump pulled the plug on an upcoming trip to North Korea by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, he pointed a finger of blame at China and the global superpower's trade practices. In his recent trade breakthrough with Mexico, Trump praised the country's ...
Business Sep 2, 2018
Toronto Star reporter says Trump was wrong to blame Bloomberg for leak about NAFTA
The Toronto Star journalist who reported brash remarks apparently made by U.S. President Donald Trump off the record to Bloomberg says that news agency was not his source. The Canadian daily had quoted Trump as boasting in an interview with Bloomberg that he was playing ...
Business Sep 1, 2018
U.S. starts clock ticking on reaching trade pact with Mexico
U.S. President Donald Trump notified Congress on Friday that he plans to sign an agreement with Mexico in 90 days to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, and hopes Canada can be brought on board. Under U.S. trade rules, the American team doesn't have ...