News bulletin 2023/01/08 07:36
News bulletin 2023/01/08 07:36
News bulletin 2023/01/08 07:36
The First Nations University of Canada (FNUniv) is receiving more than $2 million for new outdoor education centre that it is calling its fourth campus. The funding is being provided by both the provincial and federal governments. It is part of more than $19.7 million in joint funding for 25 infrastructure projects across the province. FNUniv's outdoor education location, which is already in use for students, is 22 acres. It's located along the South Saskatchewan River near the town of St. Louis
Ten civilians were killed in Ukraine, including three in Konstantynivka, as Russian artillery targeted homes. Ukraine's army says it has been exacting a heavy toll against Russian soldiers on the battlefield.View on euronews
Environmentalists in Nova Scotia have long warned of the dangers invasive species of plants and animals can pose to native ecosystems. The European starling is a case in point, according to Kristen Noel, council supervisor at the Nova Scotia Invasive Species Council. The boisterous European starling, a common sight across Nova Scotia with its dark iridescent plumage, is — as its name suggests — not native to North America. Predatory aquatic species like the chain pickerel and smallmouth bass wer
TORONTO — When Brandon Cronenberg started writing the script for "Infinity Pool" back in 2014, he didn't know "resort satire" would become a popular theme in screen entertainment by the time his film came out. A recent wave of hits including films such as “Triangle of Sadness” and "The Menu" and the TV series "The White Lotus" take an eat-the-rich tone as they display wealthy tourists unleashing their most privileged impulses. "Infinity Pool" is a horror flick that similarly follows an emotional
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mass shootings have commanded public attention on a disturbingly frequent basis across the U.S. But rather than provoking a unified response from elected officials, each additional shooting seems to be widening the political divide on gun policy among states. “It’s wash, rinse and repeat with these mass shootings,” said Michael Anderson, a bartender who survived a mass shooting at a Colorado nightclub. “They happen, and then they happen, and then they happen — and then
TORONTO — When Brandon Cronenberg started writing the script for "Infinity Pool" back in 2014, he didn't know "resort satire" would become a popular theme in screen entertainment by the time his film came out. A recent wave of hits including films such as “Triangle of Sadness” and "The Menu" and the TV series "The White Lotus" take an eat-the-rich tone as they display wealthy tourists unleashing their most privileged impulses. "Infinity Pool" is a horror flick that similarly follows an emotional
Every weekend, the playground at Tokyo's Setagaya Park overflows with kids, and parents trying to give them space to move. Space is always at a premium in this notoriously crowded city, but it's hard for many to imagine moving to a roomier part of Japan. Giving people cash to abandon Tokyo is one way Japan's government has been trying to deal with the issue of overcrowding in the capital and a shrinking population in most of the rest of the country. Past incentives meant to reverse the trends ha
A Ukrainian teacher has turned his living room into a classroom after his school was damaged by Russian strikes. View on euronews
CAIRO (AP) — Italy’s prime minister held talks in Libya on Saturday with officials from the country’s west-based government focusing on energy and migration, top issues for Italy and the European Union. During the visit, the two countries' oil companies signed a gas deal worth $8 billion — the largest single investment in Libya’s energy sector in more than two decades. Libya is the second North African country that Premier Giorgia Meloni, three months in office, visited this week. She is seeking
The former chief administrative officer of Placentia has discontinued her defamation lawsuit against the town and a former mayor, just a month before it was scheduled to go to trial. Charlotte Hickey had sued over public statements made in relation to her departure from the job as top bureaucrat inthe Avalon Peninsula town in 2018. In court filings, Hickey said she resigned from the position on "terms mutually agreed between her and council." But Hickey said then mayor Bernard Power announced in
JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday night, killing seven people, including a 70-year-old woman, and wounding three others before he was shot and killed by police, officials said. It was the deadliest attack on Israelis in years and raised the likelihood of more bloodshed. The attack, which occurred as residents were observing the Jewish sabbath, came a day after an Israeli military raid killed nine Palestinians in the West Bank. Friday's s
John de Ruiter, the self-appointed leader of an Edmonton-based spiritual group, was granted bail Friday after being charged earlier this week with sexually assaulting four women. Edmonton provincial court Judge Randal Brandt released the 63-year-old de Ruiter on strict conditions, including that he surrender his passport and provide a $30,000 cash deposit. He is not to contact any of the complainants or their family members, either directly or indirectly through his followers. He can't be within
A retired army general and a populist billionaire are battling it out in a runoff election for president of the Czech Republic. View on euronews
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mass shootings have commanded public attention on a disturbingly frequent basis across the U.S., from a supermarket slaying in Buffalo, New York, to an elementary school tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, to a recent shooting at a California dance hall. Rather than provoking a unified response from elected officials, each additional shooting seems to be widening the political divide among states on who should be allowed to have guns and what types are OK. “It’s wash, rinse and
It took just a few minutes for Jennifer Strangeway to get her Pap test done in July. But it took six months to get the results — and they weren't good. "I've got abnormal cervical cells," said the Vancouver woman, who has now been waiting a month for more test results. Strangeway is one of many B.C. women facing the stress of long waits — in some cases six months or longer — for results of their Pap tests, which screen for cervical cancer. Pap tests, also known as Pap smears, are cervical screen
Property owners in Windsor are looking at a tax increase in 2023 — but a slightly smaller one than originally proposed — after a committee of councillors took a deep dive into a draft of budget and found some savings. After meeting for four days, council's budget committee unanimously agreed to $2.8 million dollars in cuts they say won't affect services. If those changes are passed, there would still be a tax increase of 4.59 per cent. That's down, however, from the 5.23 per cent tax hike contai
OTTAWA — As Ottawa marks one year since the "Freedom Convoy" arrived in the national capital, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he understands the anger and concerns protesters have while also promising "good, long-term jobs" as a way to relieve pressures Canadians are facing. Dozens gathered outside Parliament on Saturday to mark the anniversary as members of the Liberal party were attending their caucus retreat discussing their upcoming priorities for when the House of Commons resumes Monday.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The interim manager appointed by the U.S. Department of Justice to reform the troubled water system in Mississippi's capital city released a new financial plan Friday to change the way Jackson bills for water and spend hundreds of millions of federal relief funds paying down the system's debt. The plan would relieve the water system of its debt and introduce a new billing model that would become effective in the budget year that begins on Oct. 1. The proposed reforms would