CN Railroad locomotives move on track past freight containers sitting on idle train cars in Vancouver Harbor on Friday, February 21, 2020. DARRYL DYCK / The Canadian Press Signal and communications workers have gone on strike at Canadian National Railway Co. in a development that threatens to aggravate transportation bottlenecks across the country amid the …
June 20, 2022 – The Thunder Bay District Health Unit (TBDHU) and the City of Thunder Bay announce that the outbreak at Pioneer Ridge, Plaza 1, Thunder Bay is over. Prior to the outbreak, there were already significant measures in place to reduce the likelihood of transmission of the virus within the facility. Extended precautions …
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Northeast India and northern Bangladesh have been particularly affected by bad weather, which has caused some of the worst flooding in the region in years and left some cities isolated. Lightning struck 17 people in the northeastern Indian state of Bihar on Saturday, according to their chief minister Nitish Kumar. In the southern state of …
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The Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack on a Sikh temple in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, which killed at least one worshiper and wounded seven others. ISIS made the claim in a statement posted on its Amaq website on Saturday afternoon. He said the assault on the …
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Canadian director and Oscar winner Paul Haggis is under house arrest in Italy after a woman accused him of sexual assault on Sunday. Haggis, 69, is in Italy for a film festival that begins Tuesday in Ostuni, a town in the Puglia region of southern Italy. The office of prosecutors Antonio Negro and Livia Orlando, …
The minerals needed to drive the green transition from fossil fuels could become the “21st century version of the” oil weapon, “warns an internal study commissioned by the Canadian Department of National Defense. There is widespread agreement among scientists that drastic cuts in fossil fuel consumption are needed to prevent catastrophic climate change, and a …
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In a 4,000-meter-long laboratory facility more than a mile below the Caucasus mountains in Russia, an experiment with nearly two dozen metal disks composed of a rare radioisotope has revealed an anomaly that could reshape our understanding of physics. While the above description may seem to come from a scene in The X Files, what …
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The minerals needed to drive the green transition from fossil fuels could become the “21st century version of the” oil weapon, “warns an internal study commissioned by the Canadian Department of National Defense. There is widespread agreement among scientists that drastic cuts in fossil fuel consumption are needed to prevent catastrophic climate change, and a …
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TORONTO- A new study shows that Canadian employers are willing to hire workers with no work-related experience due to a tight job market. Research published today indicates that experience and education, once crucial to many positions, are becoming less important in the midst of labor shortages. The findings are based on an online survey of …
Jennifer Lopez and Emme Muñiz see each other in Los Angeles, California on January 15, 2022. Bellocqimages / Bauer-Griffin / GC Images Jennifer Lopez introduced her daughter Emme Muñiz using pronouns “they” in a performance on Thursday. López and Muñiz performed a duet of “A Thousand Years” during the show, according to The Independent. The …