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…
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe decided to start a hunger strike today after Iranian interrogators tried to pressure her into becoming a spy for Iran, her husband has revealed. Richard Ratcliffe said his wife had been asked by Revolutionary Guard officers who visited her in prison on December 29 to pass on information about Department for International Development…
BRUSSELS — Donald Trump boasted Thursday of singlehandedly winning commitments from his fellow NATO leaders to meet and exceed a defence spending target of two per cent of GDP — even though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke only of continuing with Canada’s existing military plan. At a news conference wrapping up the two-day NATO summit…
Giuseppe Conte, the Italian prime minister, said five European Union nations have stepped forward to help resolve the latest impasse involving migrants stuck at sea on a humanitarian ship. But he bemoaned the lack of a systematic EU way to deal with migrant rescues. Mr Conte said that the crisis over the Sea-Watch 3, which has…
A British man who was arrested in Somalia earlier this month after suspected Islamist inmates tried to cut his throat, Somali authorities have said. Anthony Thomas Cox, who had been working for a private security company in Mogadishu, suffered minor injuries after he was set upon by fellow prisoners said to be loyal to al…