MOSCOW — Vladimir Bukovsky, a prominent Soviet-era dissident who became internationally known for exposing Soviet abuse of psychiatry, has died. He was 76. Bukovsky died of cardiac arrest on Sunday after a period of ill health in Cambridge, England, where he had settled after being deported from the Soviet Union in 1976, according to the Bukovsky […]
ARIHAL, India — At this time of year, the fruit and vegetable wholesale markets of Kashmir are usually packed with people and overflowing with crisp red apples, the prize harvest of this rugged agricultural region. But the markets, or mandis, stand deserted. A nearly three-month crackdown by Indian authorities has brought Kashmir’s economy to a standstill […]
Click:hanfu dress male femaleBEIRUT — Syrian Kurdish forces killed the right-hand man and spokesman for the Islamic State group in a joint operation with U.S. troops in northern Syria, just hours after U.S. special forces killed the extremist group’s leader Abu Bakr Baghdadi, a Kurdish commander said Monday. The comments came a day after President Trump […]
EDMONTON — A window-washer dangling from rigging on the side of a downtown Edmonton skyscraper had to be rescued and carried to an ambulance on a stretcher Friday. A video taken by a witness showed the platform swinging wildly, at one point crashing through a pane on the Stantec Tower, two or three floors above […]
Click:批量检测手机号码微信开通 MONTREAL — Protesters against Quebec’s secularism law said Sunday that they aren’t giving up the fight to overturn Bill 21, with or without politicians on their side. As a cold rain fell, dozens gathered in Montreal’s Parc-Extension neighbourhood on Sunday to march against the law and systemic racism. As the crowd huddled under the […]
VANCOUVER — A young plaintiff in a lawsuit against the federal government says she has suffered the debilitating consequences of Lyme disease because climate change has expanded the habitat of disease-carrying ticks. Sierra Robinson of Vancouver Island is one of 15 young Canadians suing the federal government for individual injuries they allege are the result […]
As results rolled in for Monday’s federal election, it became quickly obvious that Alberta and Saskatchewan would be a sea of blue. Save for the NDP taking Edmonton Strathcona, every riding in the two provinces elected a Conservative MP. That shutout of the Liberal party forced Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to acknowledge the work facing […]
The Northwest Territories will soon be led by the only female premier in the country. Caroline Cochrane, a two-term member of the legislature, beat three other candidates after three rounds of secret-ballot votes in the legislature Thursday to win the top political job in the territory. A former social worker of Metis descent, Cochrane previously […]
OTTAWA — Perhaps Heather McPherson should keep her phone close and charged. The new NDP MP for Edmonton–Strathcona is the only non-Conservative elected to the House of Commons Monday from the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border to the Okanagan — and that might make her candidate No. 1 for a cabinet position. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saw his […]
OTTAWA — Newly re-elected Liberal MP Catherine McKenna says she has notified police after someone spray-painted a vulgar slur on the front of her Ottawa Centre campaign office. Staff arriving at the office Thursday morning found the four-letter obscenity scrawled in red paint over a photo of the environment minister. A visibly shaken McKenna held […]
