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[ad_1] Renowned editorial cartoonist Michael de Adder may have lost his job, but he promises he hasn’t lost his voice. The author and illustrator, who is a member of the Order of Canada and has won multiple national newspaper awards, says he was let go by The Chronicle-Herald newspaper this week after nearly 30 years … Read more

[ad_1] Hospitals across the United States are scrambling to manage a shortage of IV fluids after Hurricane Helene forced the shutdown of a key facility that produces most of the nation’s supply, which also supplies to health-care providers in Canada. Baxter International Inc., a medical technology company that supplies 60 per cent of the U.S. … Read more

[ad_1] The convenience store giant behind Circle K is not giving up its hope of taking over the Japanese owner of its international rival, 7-Eleven. Seven & i Holdings Co. Ltd. said in a Wednesday statement that it had received a revised confidential, private and non-binding proposal from Alimentation Couche-Tard. The Laval, Que.-based business, which … Read more

[ad_1] When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lands in Laos on Wednesday, he will have spent almost a full day in the air and yet, despite spending 24 hours to get to the Laotian capital of Vientiane, he won’t even spend 48 hours there. But senior government officials travelling with the PM this week say the … Read more

[ad_1] The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their breakthrough work predicting and designing the structure of proteins, the building blocks of life. Heiner Linke, Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said the award honored research that made connections between amino acid sequence and … Read more

[ad_1] Brothers convicted in the United States of helping Iran evade sanctions were allowed to legally adopt new identities in Ontario, records released to Global News show. Amin and Arash Yousefijam were sentenced in Michigan in the fall of 2021 for using shell companies to illegally export sensitive manufacturing equipment to Iran, where they were … Read more

[ad_1] Australian airline Qantas has apologized to passengers after an R-rated movie was broadcast to every in-flight entertainment screen during a trip from Sydney to Tokyo. Travellers on board the plane Saturday were told technical difficulties meant individual movie selection was not available for the international flight. Crew members took requests from flyers for one … Read more

[ad_1] By Chuck Chiang The Canadian Press Posted October 8, 2024 4:29 pm Updated October 8, 2024 8:24 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Political leaders are condemning what they describe as “hateful rhetoric” from a speaker at a pro-Palestinian rally in Vancouver who told the crowd that “We … Read more

[ad_1] The Dominican Republic said Tuesday it has deported or repatriated nearly 11,000 Haitians in the past week, fulfilling a pledge to do so weekly as neighboring Haiti scrambles to handle the influx while besieged by gang violence and poverty. The Dominican government announced last week that it would deport up to 10,000 Haitians a week, … Read more

[ad_1] The Brazilian Supreme Court’s Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday authorized the restoration of social media platform X´s service in Brazil, over a month after its nationwide shutdown, according to a court document that was made public. Elon Musk’s X was blocked on Aug. 30 in the highly online country of 213 million people … Read more