Throw a coin over your shoulder into Rome’s Trevi Fountain, the legend says, and it will bring you good fortune and you will one day return to the Eternal City. It is an essential tradition for millions of tourists. But few will have suspected their loose change would also spark a bitter row between Rome’s…
MONTREAL — Canada is more advanced than the United States regarding its approach to cannabis, world-famous rapper and weed entrepreneur Snoop Dogg said Friday to a crowd of hundreds at Montreal’s C2 technology conference. The entertainer lamented that in the U.S., some states such as Colorado and California have legalized weed, while others continue to…
WASHINGTON ― After initially apologizing and accepting responsibility for failing to protect user data, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared support for some vague form of regulation as 44 senators questioned him during his first congressional testimony. “My position is not that there should be no regulation,” Zuckerberg said. “I think the real question, as the…
Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro on Sunday rejected an ultimatum from the UK and four other European countries giving him eight days to call new elections, describing the move as "complete insolence". On Saturday, the UK, France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands said that if Mr Maduro did not call a vote within that time-frame, they would…
As Canadians, we constantly pay higher prices than Americans for almost everything from apparel to alcohol to air travel. But at least it turns out we get a break on one item: marijuana. According to Wikileaf, a website that tracks cannabis prices at dispensaries in the U.S. and Canada, Americans typically pay US$40 for an…
MONTREAL — A former executive of engineering giant SNC-Lavalin has been charged by Canada’s election watchdog with helping to orchestrate illegal political donations paid to federal political parties between 2004 and 2011. Normand Morin, 76, faces five charges related to soliciting employees to make political contributions and concealing their identities. Morin couldn’t be immediately reached…
Saudi Arabian wives can no longer be divorced without their knowledge, after a court ruling came into effect on Sunday requiring courts to notify women by text message of the end of their marriages. The ruling takes aim at divorces registered at courts by men who have not informed their wives that the union is over….
On March 20, I was arrested protesting the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline that will greatly increase the amount of oil transported from Alberta’s tar sands to the west coast of Canada. I’ve never been arrested before. I haven’t even considered it. This was not a decision I took lightly. I now face…
Click:ecolchi hair mask When Imran Khan was asked this month why he did not criticise China’s alleged mass detentions from its Uighur Muslim minority, Pakistan’s prime minister was uncharacteristically coy. The former cricketer said he did not know much about the situation in China’s neighbouring Xinjiang province, where Beijing is allegedly holding hundreds of thousands…
CALGARY — The developer of a nearly empty new mall just north of Calgary says he’s confident it will become the bustling Asian-style bazaar it is meant to be despite having to delay its late-October grand opening until sometime next year. Only nine of 517 retail spaces in the mall have opened for business since…