The US surgeon general has urged an aggressive clamp down on e-cigarettes, recommending punitive taxes and bans on them being used at indoor public venues. It followed an explosion in "vaping" – inhaling e-cigarettes – among teenagers, with figures showing one in five high school pupils were using them. Jerome Adams, America’s top doctor, said…
Thousands of demonstrators marched in Hong Kong on Tuesday to demand full democracy, fundamental rights, and even independence from China in the face of what many see as a marked clampdown by the Communist Party on local freedoms. Over the past year, countries such as the United States and Britain have expressed concerns about a number of incidents…
OTTAWA — Finance Minister Bill Morneau has said science, gender equality and preparing Canadians for the jobs of the future will be key themes in Tuesday’s federal budget. Here are some more details on what it is expected to contain. PATERNITY LEAVE The federal budget is expected to include a five-week, “use-it-or-lose-it” incentive for new…
Click:cnc routing machines A suspect has been arrested in Morocco after two young Scandinavian women were found murdered with their throats cut in the Atlas Mountains, the interior ministry said. Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, a 24-year-old from Denmark, and an unidentified 28-year-old woman from Norway were found dead in a remote mountain area on Monday. Morocco’s…
Canadians are losing faith in the country’s food retailers in the wake of the bread price-fixing scandal, a new survey finds. That’s especially true for Loblaws, the brand whose parent company blew the whistle on the scheme late last year, and has become most closely associated with it. Between November of last year and March…
Australia has decided to formally recognise west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but won’t move its embassy until there’s a peace settlement between Israel and Palestinians, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Saturday. He said in a speech that Australia will recognise east Jerusalem as Palestine’s capital only after a settlement has been reached on a two-state…
OTTAWA — The Liberal government will consider withdrawing federal funding for Canadian universities if they fail to adequately address reports of sexual assault on campus. The threat was levied in the federal budget on Tuesday, as the government noted that 41 per cent of sexual assaults in Canada are reported by students. Citing a need…
A court in Singapore has ruled that a gay man will be allowed to adopt a son he fathered through a surrogate in the United States. Monday’s landmark ruling overturns an earlier decision last year that rejected the 46-year-old pathologist’s request for legal parental rights to his biological child, who is now five. The man,…
Nine people have been injured after a man deliberately ploughed his car into crowds celebrating New Year’s Eve along a famous street in Tokyo, police and media said on Tuesday. With an "intent to murder", a man identified as 21-year-old Kazuhiro Kusakabe drove a small vehicle into Takeshita Street in Tokyo’s fashion district of Harajuku at 10…
It’s the Canadian way these days: Land a reasonably well-paying job in a major city, move there, and contend with a lifetime of high living costs and stressful commutes. But a new study suggests we may not be doing ourselves any favours living like this. Researchers at McGill University and the University of British Columbia’s…