KLEIN: Manitoba NDP’s misleading hydro rate freeze campaign wastes taxpayer dollars
The Manitoba government’s recent advertising campaign promoting a “Hydro rate freeze” is a blatant misuse of public funds and a gross misrepresentation of the truth.
Rupert Murdoch's UK tabloids offer a rare apology in a legal settlement with Prince Harry
LONDON (AP) — Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. tabloids made a rare apology to Prince Harry in settling his privacy invasion lawsuit and will pay him a substantial sum, his lawyer said Wednesday.
The Taliban say a Chinese national has been killed in northeastern Afghanistan
A Chinese man was killed in northeastern Afghanistan, a Taliban police spokesman said Wednesday. The killing of foreigners is rare in the country, especially since the withdrawal of foreign troops in ...
Sunfish that began ailing after aquarium's closure recovers after human cutouts set up outside tank
TOKYO (AP) — A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in southwestern Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fishtank and appeared unwell days after the facility closed last month for ...
Witnesses at a Turkish ski resort stood helpless as people leaped out of a burning hotel
KARTALKAYA, Turkey (AP) — As flames tore through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey, friends Esra Karakisa and Halime Cetin stood helpless, paralyzed by the horror ...
Ireland is finally set to get a new government, led by a familiar face
DUBLIN (AP) — Veteran politician Micheal Martin is set to become Ireland’s prime minister for a second time on Wednesday when lawmakers formally approve him as head of a coalition government. The ...
In the news today: Ottawa fails Afghan interpreters, CAF updates medical standards
In an interview with The Canadian Press, Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan said the four medical conditions that will now be evaluated when people apply are attention deficit ...
University of Guelph to lead national network focused on agri-food innovation
The University of Guelph is leading the creation of a network meant to spur investment in Canadian agri-food innovation, ...
Mittens the cat becomes an accidental frequent flyer after getting mistakenly left on a plane
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A Maine coon cat named Mittens became an accidental jetsetter this month when her cage was overlooked in a plane cargo hold and she made three trips in 24 hours between ...
Struggling Vancouver Canucks lack execution in 'key moments': coach
His best sequence of the night came with seconds left on the clock when Vancouver’s Brock Boeser blasted a shot on net from ...
Search resumes after deadly flooding and landslides in Indonesia
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers retrieved two more bodies after they resumed their search Wednesday for people missing after floods and landslides on Indonesia’s main island of Java, ...
China and US partners are moving closer as Trump returns to the White House
Biden reinvigorated a grouping known as the Quad — the United States, India, Japan and Australia. China’s relations with all three of those U.S. partners are improving, as are its ties with Britain.