A nuclear expert helping with the clean-up at the crisis-stricken Fukushima plant has joined a chorus of voices saying that all the accumulating radioactive waste water must eventually be dumped into the ocean. Speaking with Australia’s ABC, Dale Klein, former head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and current head of the Nuclear Reform […]
WASHINGTON – For the first time since the end of the Vietnam War, both the U.S. public and the foreign policy elite see Washington as playing a less important and powerful role in the world than it did a decade before, according to the latest quadrennial survey released here Tuesday by the Council on Foreign […]
In Egypt, the interim appointed government of Prime Minister Hazem Biblawi, backed by the military junta that made the coup of July 3, on Wednesday formally categorized the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. The decree was published by the feared Interior Ministry (kind of like US FBI but with torture) on its Facebook page. […]
Charles Leclerc has so far set himself up for a productive race in Portugal, the Ferrari driver qualifying P4 on Saturday, just 0.438s adrift from poleman Lewis Hamilton. Ferrari’s recent updates to its SF1000 car have undeniably improved the Scuderia’s level of performance, with the Italian outfit steadily moving back up the pecking order in […]
Federal regulators have approved the first HIV self-test in Canada in a long-awaited move that experts have called critical to reaching people who don’t know they have the virus. Health Canada granted a medical device licence on Monday to a one-minute, finger-prick blood test manufactured by bioLytical Laboratories, which is based in Richmond, B.C. Canada […]
America went to the polls Nov. 3, 2020 in a combative election that captivated the attention of the whole world. Click Here: cheap all stars rugby jersey Democratic nominee and former vice-president Joe Biden ran against current President Donald Trump against a backdrop of a pandemic that has seen more than 230,000 Americans lose their lives […]
OTTAWA — Canada’s diplomats will be ready to help Canadians living south of the border if there’s trouble in the United States after election day, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Tuesday. “It is absolutely a responsibility of our government to be there for Canadians outside our country, and we will be there for them, […]
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh jumped into America’s political fray Tuesday, urging U.S. voters in that country’s presidential election to send Donald Trump packing. “VOTE HIM OUT,” tweeted Singh, who has long been a vocal Trump critic, as Americans across the country were casting ballots. In a post on Twitter and Facebook, Singh blasted the incumbent […]
WINNIPEG — Grand Chief Arlen Dumas shook his head in shock when he saw the line indicating new First Nations infections on a chart during the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs most recent COVID-19 meeting. “Up until today the average was usually slightly below the provincial rates, but today is quite alarming,” Dumas said Friday. Indigenous […]
OTTAWA ― An economic rebound that leaves behind parts of the Canadian labour force in the short term could end up jeopardizing the recovery from COVID-19 in the long run, Canada’s top central banker says. Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says the pandemic has widened divides in the country that could worsen further without the […]