Lt.-Gen. Jennie Carignan has been tapped as Canada’s next Chief of the Defence Staff, sources have confirmed to Global News, making her the first woman to hold the job. Carignan takes over from Gen. Wayne Eyre.
The Atlantic's first hurricane of the season developed into a Category 4 storm Sunday and barreled toward the Windward Islands and Barbados, packing winds of 130 mph.
On Friday night, Global News discovered that there is a new chief for the defence staff of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) – the first woman, in fact, to ever do so. Lt.-Gen. Jennie Carignan is the soldier in question and is a combat engineer by trade. Mercedes Stephenson reports.
The Fleetwood Mac singer was spotted in the floor VIP tent on Sunday night.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday that Iran's message of an "obliterating war" made it worthy of destruction. "A regime that threatens destruction deserves to be destroyed," Katz said in a post on X. He also said Israel will act with full force against Iran-backed Hezbollah if it does not stop firing at Israel from Lebanon and move away from the border. Iran's UN mission said on Friday that if Israel embarks on a "full-scale military aggression" in Lebanon, "an obliterating war will ensue."
The trail showcasing the singing star’s history will run from July 27 and is free for visitors.
The few steps required to walk across the stage to accept her high school diploma were ones Hala Najm envisioned for years.Not just the two years it took for her complete her course load — the 61-year-old says receiving her diploma is an idea that's tugged on her for decades, having come to Canada from Lebanon in 1977 at a young age."I always felt I had a void in my life," Najim told CBC Radio's Ottawa Morning on Monday. She came to Canada when she was 14, married young and had six children by t
Doug Parkman remembers a time before Prince Edward Island's roads were filled with traffic."We didn't have a family car when I was a young lad, and my aunt used to truck us around quite a bit for little outings and whatnot in a 1931 Pontiac," he said.That was in the 1940s. But now, decades later, Parkman has many cars, including some from that earlier era."I guess I was intrigued with the wheel," he said. "I had quite an interest in vehicles all the way through."His garage, on what's been dubbed
BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.N. cultural agency has discovered five bombs hidden within the walls of the historic al-Nouri Mosque in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, a remnant of the Islamic State militant group’s rule over the area, UNESCO said in a statement Saturday.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina trial judges have dismissed a lawsuit challenging redrawn legislative and congressional district lines on the argument that they run afoul of an indirect constitutional right to “fair elections." The judges said a recent affirmation still applies — that redistricting policy decisions are left to the General Assembly, not the courts.
Ukraine's battle to repel Russia is a fight for the country’s survival as a Western-facing democracy, but the demands of war mean some aspects of democracy have been put on hold. Elections have been postponed, the media operates under restrictions, corruption is doggedly persistent and military conscription curbs the freedom of millions of citizens to decide their own fate. (Associated Press journalists Illia Novikov and Alex Babenko in Kyiv contributed to this story. Production: Luke Garratt. This story, supported by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, is part of an ongoing Associated Press series covering threats to democracy in Europe.)
Daniel Lynch was jailed for life with a minimum of 16 years for arranging an acid attack on the former model.
A British Columbia cattle company and a contractor have been fined $545,000 for destroying habitat along the Chilcotin and Kleena Kleene rivers, says Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO).The fines followed a six-year DFO investigation and three court cases that determined Altherr & Schellenberg Cattle Co. of Williams Lake, B.C., and Bayliff Enterprises altered land to increase its area for farming. "We hope the message is sent loud and clear to everyone," Chief Joe Alphonse of the Tsilhqot'in First
The Transportation Safety Board is sending a team to investigate an aircraft accident at a fire-threatened Northwest Territories community.
While many are focused on President Biden’s debate performance, Dean Obeidallah says it was former President Trump’s statements during the event that gave offense.
NEW YORK (AP) — A sense of concern is growing inside the top ranks of the Democratic Party that leaders of Joe Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee are not taking seriously enough the impact of the president’s troubling debate performance earlier in the week.
Several U.S. military bases across Europe are now operating under a heightened state of alert, ABC News has confirmed. The alert level of Force Protection Condition (FPCON) "Charlie" was put in place over the weekend, according to two U.S. officials. According to the U.S. Army, Charlie is the second highest state of alert that "applies when an incident occurs or intelligence is received indicating some form of terrorist action or targeting against personnel or facilities is likely."
Ukraine has long coveted more of the $1 billion US-manufactured Patriot air defense systems.
The editorial comes the day after the New York Times called on Joe Biden to drop out The post The Philadelphia Inquirer Calls on Trump to Drop Out of Presidential Race: ‘He Mainly Spews Raw Sewage’ appeared first on TheWrap.
Some of Russia's deadly Su-34 fighter bombers lie exposed on the tarmac of a military airfield just 100 miles from the border with Ukraine.
When someone tried – and failed – to burn down a bus garage in Prague earlier this month, the unsuccessful arson attack didn’t draw much attention. Until, that is, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala revealed it was “very likely” that Moscow was behind it.
