Author Archives: Syndicated Content

UN's top official in Syria is stepping down after 7 years of conflict and tumult
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The official who steered the U.N.'s diplomacy in Syria for nearly seven turbulent years announced Thursday that he is resigning. Geir Pedersen, who has held diplomatic posts for ...
Sep 18, 2025

Champagne defends budget investments as he sets out to deepen European ties
OTTAWA - The financial returns from Ottawa's capital spending plans in the upcoming fall budget will help Canada pay down the deficit in later years, Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne said o...
Sep 18, 2025

Conservatives push for a 'three-strikes' law, tougher sanctions for domestic violence
OTTAWA - The Conservatives introduced a law in the House of Commons on Thursday that would classify the killing of an intimate partner as a first-degree murder. The private members' bill was introduce...
Sep 18, 2025

Gunman kills 2 at Israeli-run crossing between West Bank and Jordan. 4 soldiers killed in Gaza
JERUSALEM (AP) - A Jordanian aid truck driver opened fire and killed two people at an Israeli-run border crossing in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, officials said. The Israeli military also said ...
Sep 18, 2025

Republican alleges FBI has names of Epstein clients, including 'billionaire' Canadian
WASHINGTON - A Republican lawmaker on Wednesday alleged the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has the names of some of the late Jeffrey Epstein's clients, including a "billionaire from Canada." Rep...
Sep 18, 2025

Quebec follows Alberta's move to stop offering COVID vaccine for free to most people
Quebec is now the second province after Alberta to announce it will no longer offer free doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to its entire population, starting this fall. The decision matches a similar poli...
Sep 18, 2025

Quebec politician to close Facebook page, unable to filter hate-filled posts, spam
MONTREAL - A member of Quebec's legislature says she will take down her professional Facebook page, unable to filter the hateful comments and spam it regularly attracts. Christine Labrie of leftist pa...
Sep 18, 2025

Nova Scotia's Donald Oliver, first Black man named to Senate, dies at 86
HALIFAX - Donald Oliver, the first Black man appointed to the Senate of Canada, has died at the age of 86. Oliver's family in Nova Scotia confirmed the retired senator died Wednesday from a chronic he...
Sep 18, 2025

Judge blocks Trump administration from immediately deporting Guatemalan migrant children
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from immediately deporting Guatemalan migrant children who came to the U.S. alone back to their home count...
Sep 18, 2025

Prosecutor says stalking suspect ambushed Pennsylvania police officers, killing 3
NORTH CODORUS, Pa. (AP) - A suspected stalker armed with a rifle hid inside his ex-girlfriend's home in the rolling farmland of southern Pennsylvania and ambushed police officers who came to arrest hi...
Sep 18, 2025