VICTORIA — A Vancouver businessman banned for life from entering the United States over his investments in American marijuana companies says he plans to seek a waiver that permits him to cross the border. Canadian Sam Znaimer said he was recently denied entry at a Washington state border crossing by officials who said his investments…
Malta has reached a deal with other EU member states to allow 49 migrants aboard two rescue ships off the coast of the island nation to disembark, Joseph Muscat, the prime minister, said Wednesday. "An ad hoc agreement has been reached," Mr Muscat told journalists, adding that it also included a decision on the fate of 249…
OK, so is there actually anything Tessa Virtue can’t do? She’s a gold medal ice dancing champion (and the most decorated figure skater in Olympics history, alongside her skating partner Scott Moir), which, honestly, is enough. We could stop here and we’d all be suitably impressed. But we won’t, because since the Olympics Virtue has…
A Swiss MP has accused the Turkish government of passing off olive oil plundered from Syria as Turkish in order to sell it in European Union countries, including Spain. Bernhard Guhl of Switzerland’s Conservative Democratic Party has alerted the Swiss government to the possibility of olive oil seized as loot from the conflict in Syria entering…
So much for the honeymoon! Just three days after they got married, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are back at work. On Tuesday, the newly minted Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended a garden party at Buckingham Palace to celebrate Prince Charles’ forthcoming 70th birthday. This will be the newlyweds’ first royal public engagement since…
Italian police have arrested the French flight instructor who survived a deadly mid-air collision that killed seven people in Italy’s Val d’Aosta region on Friday. Prosecutors believe Philippe Michel, 63, was on a training flight with two passengers and attempting to land on the Rutor glacier when their ultralight aircraft collided with a helicopter, which was…
Craig McLachlan, the former Neighbours star, has been charged with multiple counts of indecent assault, believed to be connected to his role in an Australian stage production of The Rocky Horror Show. Police in the state of Victoria said detectives from a sexual offences and child abuse investigation team had charged a 53-year-old man from New South…
The leaders of France and Germany met on Tuesday to deepen a 1963 treaty of post-war reconciliation in a bid to show that the European Union’s main axis remains strong and counter growing eurosceptic nationalism among some other members. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron signed the extension to the Elysee Treaty in…
TORONTO — U.S. entertainment company CBS Television Studios will open a television and film production hub just outside Toronto next year. The company says the hub will include six sound stages, production offices and other support facilities. CBS says the 260,000 square-foot facility will be located in Mississauga and is due to open in mid-2019….
TORONTO — An Ontario court has ruled in favour of the Canadian arm of Tesla Inc. in its petition that it had been treated unfairly in the provincial government’s cancellation of an electric vehicle rebate program. Ontario Superior Court judge Frederick L. Myers said the decision to exclude Tesla from a grace period for the…