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Canada to compensate 718 gay-purge victims in class-action settlement
OTTAWA - A lawyer says some victims of the federal government's gay purge were so devastated by the experience that even decades later they needed the help of a therapist to fill out forms to receive ...
Jul 13, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Plastic-bag fiasco proves need for recall law for city councils
DO YOU EVER WISH there was a way to throw the rascals out without waiting for the next election?There is at the provincial level, but not municipal. Maybe it's time for an overhaul of the municipal el...
Jul 13, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Judge approves new Weinstein legal team led by #MeToo critic
NEW YORK - A judge gave Harvey Weinstein the green light Thursday to shake up his defence team yet again - this time a mere two months before the disgraced movie mogul whose case inspired the #MeToo m...
Jul 13, 2019
UK Labour Party in turmoil over new anti-Semitism claims
LONDON - Britain's main opposition Labour Party was in turmoil Thursday after a television documentary renewed allegations that anti-Semitism is rife within its ranks. In the BBC program, former staff...
Jul 13, 2019
Trump abandons bid to include citizenship question on census
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump abandoned his controversial bid to inject a citizenship question into next year's census Thursday, instead directing federal agencies to try to compile the informat...
Jul 13, 2019
Millions in line of punishing rain from Tropical Storm Barry
NEW ORLEANS - People boarded up buildings, stocked up on water and braced for torrents of rain and punishing wind from a strengthening Tropical Storm Barry that threatened millions as it churned a pat...
Jul 13, 2019
Toxic lake in Russia's Siberia becomes selfie sensation
MOSCOW - Residents of a city in Siberia don't need to fly off to tropical locales for picturesque selfies taken by pristine turquoise waters. Thousands of Novosibirsk residents - ranging from scantily...
Jul 13, 2019
Aftermath of Canadian submarine fire: PTSD, asthma and depression
HALIFAX - The Canadian sailors who fought a deadly fire aboard the submarine HMCS Chicoutimi in 2004 suffered from significantly elevated levels of post-traumatic stress, depression and...
Jul 13, 2019
'Frustration and alienation:' Jason Kenney tells premiers national unity threatened
SASKATOON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he still believes national unity is under threat despite two days of collaborative discussions with the country's leaders. Kenney said his ...
Jul 13, 2019
Train collision in Pakistan kills 20
MULTAN, Pakistan - A passenger train rammed into a freight train at a railway station in southern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 20 people and injuring 74 others, hospital officials said. The ...
Jul 12, 2019
