More than 100 migrants stormed the Calais ferry terminal in a coordinated push to board a Dover-bound ferry, forcing the authorities to delay its departure while they rounded them up yesterday. About half of the migrants managed to scramble onto the ferry and conceal themselves on board. Two fell into the sea and were rescued….
Ontario’s new government will cancel the province’s experiment with a basic income program, minister Lisa MacLeod announced Tuesday. The pilot project, which reached full enrollment in April, was supposed to last three years. “I don’t know if I should feel anger or despair right now,” participant Jessie Golem told HuffPost Canada. “I feel like the…
A national strike to demand higher pay has paralysed airports, sea ports and rail traffic in Belgium, with all flights in and out of the country cancelled because air traffic controllers could not guarantee safety with a skeleton staff. Hundreds of factories are shut down for the day as trade unions protest limits on wage increases during times…
Meghan Markle will soon add another royal first to her list. Shortly after the Duchess of Sussex returns home from her honeymoon at a top-secret location — which is not Alberta’s Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge — she will make her first solo appearance with the Queen in Cheshire, a county located roughly 4.5 hours northwest…
TORONTO — U.S. real estate website Zillow is expanding to offer listings for homes in Canada for sale. Zillow says it has agreements to receive more than 50,000 listings from Canadian brokerages and franchisors. Users will be able to use the popular U.S. site and mobile app to search for Canadian for-sale properties by postal…
In the Greater Toronto Area, South Asian restaurants have garnered the public’s attention not just because of their distinct flavours and dishes, but because Torontonians are big-time foodies. Stephanie Lau, a Toronto food blogger, told HuffPost Canada: “Particularly in the suburbs, away from downtown core, there is a wealth of authentic family-run South Asian restaurants,…
Hideo Kojima has confirmed the highly-anticipated Death Stranding has moved into a “critical phase” of development but as yet, the disparate sections of the game have not been connected “into one game”. In a tweet early this morning, Kojima updated his followers on where Death Stranding was in terms of development, intimating it had not…
Venezuela was yesterday in a state of anxious expectation as the country braced for the return of Juan Guaidó, the self-declared president locked in a deepening leadership standoff with Nicolas Maduro. Mr Guaidó has vowed to re-enter the country after slipping out to neighbouring Colombia to lead the attempted passage of aid just over a…
HALIFAX — A new $10 banknote featuring Viola Desmond’s portrait will go into circulation in a week, just over 72 years after she was ousted from the whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, N.S. The civil rights pioneer and businesswoman is the first Canadian woman to be featured on a regularly circulating…
It just might be the most Canadian music video of all time (don’t @ us), and it stars two Canadian sweethearts, Céline Dion and Ryan Reynolds. The Quebec chanteuse released her new single and the video for “Ashes” today on “Good Morning America,” and it’s the perfect fusion of Canadiana. The song is from the…