Sandy Silver says he intends to form the next Yukon government and be sworn in in a new cabinet, regardless of Monday’s landmark recount in Vuntut Gwitchin constituency. In a statement Monday morning, the Liberal leader said he had spoken to the Territorial Commissioner and informed her of his intention “to form the next government and to demonstrate that I […]
Did ex-Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin act reasonably and within his authority when he used force in the arrest of George Floyd? And did those actions, including his knee resting on the 46-year-old black man’s neck and back, result in his death? These are the two main questions that the jurors will have to ask themselves during their retirement to deliberate […]
The federal government tabled its first budget document in two years on Monday, a 739-page monster that outlines Ottawa’s plan to spend $ 354 billion beyond its means as the Canadian economy struggles to recover from COVID -19. With his vows to spend $ 30 billion on a national subsidized child care program and $ 18 billion on a “green […]
Meng Wanzhou’s lawyers want to delay final weeks of extradition proceedings against Huawei executive so they can review documents they say will prove the US has misled Canada about the strength of the allegations of fraud against their client. In documents filed with the BC Supreme Court, defense attorneys for Meng say they need time to sift through reams of […]
Hospitals move critically ill patients in search of an empty bed. Nurses and doctors work overtime that defies exhaustion. Some provinces are opening new intensive care unit capacity. But that may not be enough to avoid a point no one wants to reach in the pandemic – when there are only a handful of ICU beds left but more patients […]
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in the third week of a hunger strike, will be admitted to a hospital in another prison, the Russian state prison service said on Monday, after the politician’s doctor said he could be close to death. The prison service, FSIN, also said Navalny had agreed to undergo vitamin therapy, but an ally of […]
The last: New Delhi was locked out for a week on Monday evening as an explosive outbreak of coronavirus cases pushed the Indian capital’s health system to its limits. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal told a press conference that the nation’s capital faces shortages of oxygen and medicine. “I am not saying the system has collapsed, but it has reached its […]
CBC’s Susan Ormiston reflects on 14 days of testimony at the murder trial of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin accused of killing George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died after Chauvin pinned him to the ground by kneeling on his back and neck for about nine minutes while two other officers held him down.
A passenger train derailed north of Cairo on Sunday, killing at least 11 people, Egyptian authorities said. It was the last of several train accidents to hit the country in recent years. Four cars left the tracks in the city of Banha in Qalyubia province just outside Cairo, the railway authority said in a statement. Videos on social media showed […]
It was his dream since he was a young adult to change his name to a name that had belonged to his family for generations but was obscured by the first settlers. And now his official: the grand chief of the Gwich’in Tribal Council will be called Ken Kyikavichik. “I decided after I was elected this was something that I […]
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