If you have a plant-related class, garden tour or other event you’d like us to mention, email [email protected] — at least three weeks in advance — and we may include it. Send a high-resolution horizontal photo, if possible, and tell us what we’re seeing and whom to credit. Through Jan. 12 Moonlight Forest: A Magical […]
Mexico City — After then-candidate Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed at a Brazilian presidential campaign rally in 2018, some of his allies advanced a perplexing theory. Despite widespread evidence that a Brazilian man with a history of mental health problems had carried out the attack alone, they suggested it had actually been planned by Hezbollah, the Lebanese […]
HOUSTON — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the state will reject the resettlement of new refugees, becoming the first state known to do so under a recent Trump administration order. In a letter released Friday, Abbott wrote that Texas “has been left by Congress to deal with disproportionate migration issues resulting from a broken federal immigration […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwanese voters go to the polls Saturday to pick a president and legislature in an election shaped by ever-shifting threats from political and military rival China. About 18 million people are eligible to vote in a democracy that emerged from authoritarian rule more than two decades ago. Incumbent Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic […]
They met as graduate students in Montreal, drawn there by Concordia University’s well-regarded engineering program. They had both landed good jobs in the industry. They recently bought a house in Montreal. They had flown home to Iran for their wedding, attended by family. “They were going to invite us for a housewarming party this new […]
Former F1 driver David Coulthard believes that Lewis Hamilton won’t be moving to Ferrari for 2021 and will remain with Mercedes for the foreseeable future. News that Hamilton had met with Ferrari’s top brass in recent months induced a whirlwind of speculation about the six-time world champion’s plans once his contract with Mercedes runs out […]
TORONTO — Hundreds of thousands of Ontarians will soon have to say goodbye for good to their old, red-and-white health cards. The government has set July 1 as the date the cards will no longer be accepted — more than 25 years after the province first announced those cards would be phased out. There are […]
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says intelligence from multiple sources indicates that an Iranian missile downed the Ukraine International Airlines flight that crashed near Tehran on Wednesday. He says the strike might have been unintentional. Trudeau was providing an update amid multiple reports earlier Thursday that pointed the finger at Iran for the downing […]
OTTAWA — Nearly 100 Canadian fire experts have been sent to Australia to help battle one of the worst wildfire seasons the country has ever seen, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told his Australian counterpart Wednesday the country is ready to do more. In a phone conversation with Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Trudeau “expressed […]
OTTAWA — If there’s a sign of how Canada’s Iranian diaspora has grown just over the last decade in Canada, consider the story of a festival held in Toronto to mark the Persian New Year, known as Nowruz. Toronto has long had among the country’s larger Iranian communities and in 2006, when a group of […]