This drama queen Husky refuses to sit in the back seat and tries everything to get to the front seat! What a funny doggo!
After weeks of being closed, restaurants, theatres and cinemas will soon be allowed to reopen in Quebec. The Quebec government announced a loosening of several restrictions Tuesday, as hospitalizations slowly begin to come down from all-time pandemic highs. Restaurants will once again be allowed to reopen at half capacity as of Monday, Jan. 31. Up to four people from four different addresses or a maximum of two family bubbles will be allowed to share a table. However, restaurants will have to st
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has nominated a diverse group of six lawyers to run U.S. attorney’s offices across the country, his latest picks for the top law enforcement positions. The nominees, announced by the White House on Wednesday, would run the federal prosecutors’ offices in Alaska, Connecticut, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Utah. They would include the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney in Utah and the first Black woman to serve as U.S. attorney in Connecticut. The
The 'Conference on the Future of Europe is seeking to strengthen the European Union by allowing citizens to have their say on how they think the European project is going. To find out more, Euronews spoke to Vice-President of the European Commission, Dubravka Suica. View on euronews
A look at what’s happening in European soccer on Wednesday: FRANCE Last-place Saint-Etienne travels to Angers looking to snap a miserable run of seven consecutive league losses. The match was initially planned earlier this month but had to be rescheduled because of a COVID-19 outbreak at Angers. Saint-Etienne, the most decorated club in French football with 10 titles, has the league’s second-worst defense ahead of its trip to 12th-place Angers. And Pascal Dupraz's team has not scored away from h
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Officials have dropped the trespassing charge filed against a Black community activist who was handcuffed prior to the start of a news conference held by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis earlier this month, his attorney said. Ben Frazier, 71, had tried to attend the Jan. 4 briefing that DeSantis held in Jacksonville, hoping to discuss the “shoddy job” he believed the governor and state had done in response to the pandemic, according to a statement this week from Jacksonville a
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas doctor-lawmaker who has prescribed a parasitic worm treatment for COVID-19 symptoms acknowledged Wednesday that the state medical board has been investigating him since the summer of 2020. Conservative Republican state Sen. Mark Steffen disclosed the Kansas Board of Healing Arts' investigation of him during a Senate committee hearing. He was testifying in favor of a bill that would require pharmacists to fill prescriptions for both the anti-worm treatment ivermectin
A Yukon government department once again refused to cooperate with the territory's information and privacy commissioner. The Office of the Yukon Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) — which recently completed an investigation report into a complaint against the Department of Justice about an access request — says the office was forced to do more work than necessary to resolve the matter. Last April, a person requested information related to a Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) Act
From an early age Elisabeth started to work in an unusual genre of the "Living Art". Her art form is now becoming famous all over the world.
REGINA — Saskatchewan's chief medical health officer says the province is considering whether to lift some COVID-19 measures but emphasized that booster shots will remain critical in reducing serious illness and preserving the health-care system. Dr. Saqib Shahab said conversations are ongoing with the Saskatchewan Party government about which public health orders will be needed as society learns to live with the virus. He said there needs to be a long-term plan as the pandemic will soon enter i
MUNICH (AP) — Germany defender Niklas Süle is leaving Bayern Munich at the end of the season. Bayern chairman Oliver Kahn said Wednesday that the 26-year-old Süle is not extending his current contract. “It took a long time and we made him an offer. He didn’t accept that offer,” Kahn said. Süle switched to Bayern from Hoffenheim in 2017 for around 20 million euros ($22.5 million) and has since made 158 appearances across all competitions for the Bavarian powerhouse. He won four Bundesliga titles,
Fire heavily damaged a Saint John landmark and tourist attraction on Tuesday. Barbour's General Store, an authentic building from the late 1860s, was given to the city in 1967 by the founder of G. E. Barbour as part of Canada's Centennial celebrations, said company president Sylvia MacVey. "Heartbreak was my first reaction," she said of hearing the news of the fire. The Saint John police major crime unit and the fire department are investigating the fire in the building at the bottom of King Str
CHARLOTTETOWN — Residents of Prince Edward Island will see public health measures begin to ease next week, including a return to in-class learning for the province's students, officials announced Wednesday. This comes amid signs that the largest wave of the disease to hit the province since the pandemic began is beginning to subside. "We’ve been able to avoid a lot of the dire effects and impacts of COVID, but this last five-week wave has hit us especially hard," Premier Dennis King told a news
TORONTO — Ontario child-care operators and staff are calling on the provincial government to take steps to make daycares safer during the COVID-19 pandemic and to ensure the sector's long-term viability. One immediate step urged by the dozens of operators, labour groups and public health experts who signed a letter to the premier that was released Wednesday was to reinstate eligibility for PCR testing. Late last year in response to a surge in Omicron cases, the province limited access to PCR tes
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy laid out an optimistic vision of the state's future Tuesday during an election year address to lawmakers that comes amid a period of higher oil prices and follows a year marked by drawn-out, bruising legislative sessions. The Republican, giving his fourth State of the State speech since taking office in late 2018, said he envisioned a state that is a leader in renewable energy, with energy costs among the lowest in the U.S. He also wants Alaska to
A week-long lockdown in Old Crow, Yukon, paid off, says Paul Josie, the deputy chief of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation — there are no known COVID-19 cases there at the moment. On Monday, after doing three days of rapid tests in the community, the lockdown was lifted. Josie said the lockdown was triggered by two positive COVID-19 cases, confirmed by PCR tests, and was done out of precaution and to give the community time to get testing done. "We wanted to make sure that we respond carefully," h
Jessica Jumbo, her two young children and her niece had their hands up on her sliding doors watching a storm roll in. "The winds got so strong we could feel the door pushing inwards," said Jumbo, who has lived in Sambaa K'e, N.W.T., her whole life and is the environment and lands coordinator for the Sambaa K'e First Nation. She said there was some extreme lightning before the storm hit, and so much rain, it looked like a wall. "It was just nonstop flashes and the winds started picking up really
BERLIN (AP) — The far-right Alternative for Germany party on Tuesday presented a member of former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union as its long-shot candidate to become the country’s next president, prompting his own party to call for him to leave or face possible expulsion. Max Otte, a right-wing economist who was previously involved with a think-tank close to Alternative for Germany, last year became the head of the Werte-Union — a group that describes itself as representin
Nova Scotia RCMP are investigating after shots were fired toward a vessel in Richmond County last month. Mounties say the fishing vessel was in Lennox Passage on Dec. 8 when there were reports of four gunshots near its bow. Lennox Passage is approximately 35 kilometres east of Port Hawkesbury. All shots missed the boat and no one on board was injured. RCMP do not believe the vessel was fishing at the time of the incident. The gunshots came from the land near Lennox Passage Provincial Park. Cpl.
A truck driver rammed his semi-trailer through a support post in front of a downtown Quesnel, B.C. store, narrowly missing two pedestrians on the sidewalk. The store that was struck on Jan. 1, Cariboo Keepsakes Local Arts and Crafts, has now released video surveillance footage in the hopes of identifying the driver of what they describe as a Peterbilt fuel truck. "It's a nightmare … how easy it would have been to hit the pedestrians on the sidewalk," said Veronika Kregel, president of the Quesne
New research from the University of British Columbia (UBC) shows the same molecules that produce the ultraviolet bull’s-eye patterns in sunflowers can help the plants adapt to stresses such as drought or extreme temperatures.
