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OTTAWA - The federal government is reducing but not banning outright the use of single-use plastics at the G7 summit this week in Quebec. Thousands of politicians, staffers, security officers, sp...
News Jun 07, 2018
UCLUELET, B.C. - They arrived at the dump ready to dig up a grey whale’s grave, carrying shovels, rakes, brushes and small garden tools, hoping the decomposition process had done the job of...
News Jun 07, 2018
LOS ANGELES - Two of the world’s best rock climbers coped with frightening falls and the deaths of two fellow climbers on the same rock in a monthlong quest to shatter a mythical record in Yosem...
News Jun 07, 2018
TORONTO - Billy-Ray Belcourt sobbed as he accepted the $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize on Thursday night, sharing his hopes that his writing can help bring about a world that Indigenous pe...
News Jun 07, 2018
EDMONTON - Human beings are a “tectonic force” shaping nearly every facet of the planet we depend on and our failure to realize that is at the heart of most ecological disputes, environmen...
News Jun 07, 2018
GUANGZHOU, China - A U.S. medical team was screening more Americans who work at the consulate in southern China as the State Department confirmed evacuating a number of government employees who experi...
News Jun 07, 2018
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have held the first-ever meeting of their Saudi-Emirati Coordination Council, created amid a diplomatic dispute now affecting a wider r...
News Jun 07, 2018
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A woman whose life sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump thanked him on Thursday for “having mercy” and said reality TV star Kim Kardashian West saved her life. ...
News Jun 06, 2018
CHICAGO - A Chicago police officer fatally shot a 24-year-old black man who authorities said pulled a gun while running away, prompting questions from the man’s family about why the encounter tu...
News Jun 06, 2018
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Saint Laurent decamped from Paris to New Jersey for a menswear show with a shine that matched the glittery Manhattan nightscape Wednesday just across the downtown harbour. Creative...
News Jun 06, 2018