A brother and sister from New York state have been rescued from a Jewish “cult”, after police found them in a small town 30 miles south of Mexico City. Chaim Teller, 12, and his sister Yante Teller, 14, were taken from their home in Woodridge, New York, on December 8. On Friday they were found…
From the Occupy Wall Street protests to the recent Fight for $15 movement, income and wealth inequality has been a hot topic in recent years. This development is unsurprisingly given that an increasing share of the wealth generated globally has for years been making its way into the pockets of a smaller percentage of the…
The European Parliament is attempting to stamp out the use of words such as “mankind” and “manpower” and have them replaced with more gender neutral terms such as “humanity” and “staff”. Officials and MEPs in the parliament, which has seats in Brussels and Strasbourg, have been sent a guidebook on using gender-neutral language in…
NEW YORK — Amazon’s website ran into some snags quickly Monday on its much-hyped Prime Day, an embarrassment for the tech company on the shopping holiday it created. Shoppers clicking on many Prime Day links got only an abashed-looking dog with the words, “Uh-oh. Something went wrong on our end.” Many took to social media…
The phone call came a mere 30 minutes after Juan Moreno had spectacularly, but reluctantly, become the new star of German journalism. An excited publisher wanted to talk to him about options for a book, a documentary, or a movie about the biggest media scandal to hit Germany in decades, a scandal brought about by…
OTTAWA — Canada’s annual inflation rate continued creeping higher last month to hit 2.3 per cent. The March figure from Statistics Canada shows the pace of inflation inched a little farther past the midpoint of the central bank’s ideal range of between one and three per cent. By comparison, inflation was 2.2 per cent in…
Robert Mueller has almost finished his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, the acting attorney general has said. Matthew Whitaker announced on Monday that Mr Mueller’s inquiry is “close to being completed” – the first indication from the justice department that Mr Mueller could deliver his report soon. He added that he has been…
The shutdown of Syncrude’s oilsands facility last week could lead to a shortage of oil in North America, investment bank Goldman Sachs has warned. Syncrude’s facility has a capacity of 350,000 barrels of oil per day, but it shut down production on Friday after a transformer blew, the Globe and Mail reported. The company says…
A European Union naval operation against migrant trafficking in the Mediterranean was cast in doubt on Wednesday after Germany announced it was withdrawing one of the task force’s three remaining ships. German MPs blamed the decision on Italy’s refusal to allow rescued migrants to land at its ports. But Matteo Salvini, the Italian deputy prime…
It’s 9 a.m. on a Monday in September of 2008. I should be sitting behind a worn wooden desk, trying to stay awake in my Grade 8 social studies class, worrying about whatever 13-year-olds worry about. Instead, I’m sitting at the far end of a glossy new conference table in a downtown Calgary boardroom, my…