Author Archives:
![](https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2311/files/2019/05/5cd159a6023d16784b50de7cjpeg.jpg)
Police find body in Cyprus lake, tie rape to serial killings
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Police in Cyprus recovered a second suitcase containing human remains Sunday from a contaminated lake where a military officer who confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls ...
May 07, 2019
![](https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2311/files/2019/05/5cd159a5023d16784b50de6ajpeg.jpg)
Israel steps up strikes as Gaza rocket attacks intensify
JERUSALEM - Gaza militants fired hundreds of rockets into southern Israel on Sunday, killing at least four Israelis and bringing life to a standstill across the region in the bloodiest fighting since ...
May 07, 2019
![](https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2311/files/2019/05/5cd159a4023d16784b50de58jpeg.jpg)
Pompeo meeting with Merkel cancelled over 'pressing issues'
BERLIN - The U.S. State Department says a planned meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Chancellor Angela Merkel has been cancelled. Pompeo was due to meet Merkel and German Foreign ...
May 07, 2019
![](https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2311/files/2019/05/5cd159a4023d16784a50df74jpeg.jpg)
Maximum Security owner weighs options after disqualification
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Maximum Security co-owner Gary West criticized race stewards' disqualification of his horse's Kentucky Derby victory as "egregious" and said he was pondering his next step, including...
May 07, 2019
![](https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2311/files/2019/05/5cd15710023d16784950de91jpeg.jpg)
Pope urges migrant-skeptic Bulgarians to open hearts, homes
SOFIA, Bulgaria - Pope Francis urged Bulgarians on Sunday to open their hearts and homes to migrants, arguing that a country like Bulgaria, which is losing so much of its population to emigration, sho...
May 07, 2019
![](https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2311/files/2019/05/5cd1570f023d16784950de7fjpeg.jpg)
Kim oversees missile firing drills, tells troops to be alert
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korean state media on Sunday showed leader Kim Jong Un observing live-fire drills of long-range multiple rocket launchers and what appeared to be a new short-range ba...
May 07, 2019
![](https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2311/files/2019/05/5cd13fec023d16784b50dd39jpeg.jpg)
In the news today, May 7
Five stories in the news for Tuesday, May 7 --- UN REPORT HAS MESSAGE FOR CANADA: CO-AUTHOR A UN report that concludes a million species are threatened with extinction and that "fundamental,...
May 07, 2019
![](https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2311/files/2019/05/5cd13c17023d16784b50dd03jpeg.jpg)
Inside the Met Gala: Feathers, bling and ideas about 'camp'
NEW YORK - The cocktail bar was shutting down, and guests were being encouraged to commence the elegant trek to dinner through the majestic halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. But Joan Collins ha...
May 07, 2019
![](https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2311/files/2019/05/5cd13c13023d16784a50de19jpeg.jpg)
Exam question on climate change draws anger, memes from Quebec students
MONTREAL - Quebec high school students are criticizing a question on a government-administered French exam that asked them if society can adapt to the effects of cli...
May 07, 2019
![](https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2311/files/2019/05/5cd13c12023d16784a50de07jpeg.jpg)
MPs are no Einstein when it comes to misattributing famous quotes
OTTAWA - Canadian parliamentarians love to quote Albert Einstein's definition of insanity. No one more so than Liberal Sean Casey, who's cited the famous quotation purportedly from the accla...
May 07, 2019
![](https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/application/theme/images/loaders/indicator-big.gif)
Our Community
One Man's Opinion
COLLINS: October election campaign is getting fired up
23h ago
![](https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/2311/files/2024/04/1-pregnancy-test-150x150.jpg)
First Steps
First Steps provides a vital pillar of support
Week in Review
Week in Review: Week of July 1
Jul 06, 2024
Two and Out
PETERS: Head-scratching fringe ideas still linger in 'common sense' BC Conservative platform
Jul 05, 2024
![](https://d2ksr9467jthww.cloudfront.net/20240517180520/aeed8c40-38fd-4fd1-b8ea-d1f68b1a857d.jpg)
ART OF GARDENING
Art of Gardening - Special May Long Weekend Edition
One Man's Opinion
COLLINS: If the right one don't get you, then the left one will
Jul 04, 2024
Question of the Week
Do you support the $275 million Build Kamloops plan?
Jul 02, 2024