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 […]
Researchers backed by the San Diego Zoo are scrambling to save koalas threatened by the rampaging brush fires in Australia. Officials said a team working in the Blue Mountains — home to the most genetically diverse population of koalas in the world — was able to find and capture a dozen of the marsupials as […]
EDEN, Australia — Thousands of people fled their homes and helicopters dropped supplies to towns at risk of nearby wildfires as hot, windy conditions Friday threatened already fire-ravaged southeastern Australian communities. The danger is centered on New South Wales and Victoria, Australia’s most populous states, where temperatures and winds spiked after a few days of relatively […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Further deadlock and heightened pressure from China are the likely outcome if Taiwan’s independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen wins a second term this weekend, as is widely predicted. Tsai, of the Democratic Progressive Party, was leading by a comfortable margin in most polls before the standard blackout period on surveys was imposed 10 days […]
Here’s a look at what roughly $625,000 buys right now in Rancho Santa Margarita, Santa Ana and Mission Viejo in Orange County. RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA: A gazebo adjoins a swimming pool and spa behind this Mediterranean-style home with mountain views. Address: 11 Via Becerra, Rancho Santa Margarita, 92688 Listed for: $610,000 for two bedrooms, two […]
ROKiT Williams Racing has added another Canadian sponsor to its portfolio of partners, the Grove-based outfit welcoming the Royal Bank of Canada to its team for 2020. Williams ended 2019 – the worst season in its modern history – with a depressed sporting track record, but the British outfit’s finances also took a hit following […]
TORONTO — HuffPost Canada and HuffPost Québec collected six Canadian Online Publishing Awards (COPA) at a ceremony in Toronto on Thursday. The COPA recognize outstanding achievement in Canada’s digital media landscape. Nominees included large outlets like Radio-Canada International, Postmedia, and CTV News as well as niche publications like The Lawyer’s Daily and SavvyMom. From continuing coverage of […]
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 […]
OTTAWA — Iran’s civil aviation authority says it has invited Canadian investigators from the Transportation Safety Board to join a growing team probing the plane crash outside Tehran that killed 138 people believed bound for Canada. The statement posted online said representatives from Ukraine International Airlines, the plane’s operator, arrived in Tehran today to begin the […]
OTTAWA — Canadian wildfire experts say Canada is very vulnerable to the kind of devastating wildfires ravaging Australia right now. More than 12.5 million hectares of bushland have burned in Australia since October and prime forest-fire season is just now getting underway. Multiple heat waves and a lengthy and widespread drought left much of the […]