OTTAWA — A Commons committee that spent over a year looking at economic barriers facing Canadian women has released a sweeping list of recommendations it believes could provide a path toward full equality for women. The standing committee on the status of women tabled its report Thursday following a 15-month study of women’s economic security….
Americans are facing a potential Christmas tree shortage this year in a lingering effect from the financial crisis a decade ago. Some tree growers went out of business as the economy buckled in 2008. Because trees take seven to 10 years to reach an acceptable size for buyers the effect is only being felt now. Jane Waterman, of Uptown Christmas Trees which sells festive firs…
A US passenger plane was forced to turn back in mid-air because a human heart had been left on board. The Southwest airlines flight from Seattle to Dallas was in the air for three hours before the organ was discovered. It had been due for collection in Seattle, but was never removed from the cargo-hold. …
TORONTO — The Canadian Transportation Agency is investigating a complaint from a Toronto lawyer who claims he was racially profiled by WestJet. Selwyn Pieters, who is black, says the incident happened when he was trying to check in for a WestJet flight to Toronto on July 2, at the conclusion of a weeklong trip to…
A feared hard Left guerrilla group operating in the mountains that border Venezuela and Colombia has vowed to respond to any military intervention by the US to topple Nicolas Maduro. In a rare interview from temporary exile in Cuba, leaders of Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) told the Sunday Telegraph they were drawing up a…
China’s military is on the leading edge of some of the world’s most advanced weapons systems according to a Pentagon report published this week, as the US and Britain announced they had conducted their first joint naval drills in the disputed South China Sea. The Pentagon found that China, the world’s second-largest economy, is now…
UPDATE: Apple’s latest media event is over, and the tech giant has formally unveiled its latest iPhone models. Alongside the iPhone XS and XS Max, which leaked earlier today, Apple also announced the iPhone XR. In terms of general functionality, the device is similar to the higher-end X range, featuring the A12 Bionic processor, similar…
Russia reportedly made a secret offer to North Korea last year to dismantle its nuclear weapons programme in exchange for a nuclear power plant. According to the Washington Post, the deal was proposed last autumn as a potential solution to an ongoing diplomatic impasse between the US and North Korea over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile arsenal….
MONTREAL — Some of Canada’s largest banks, engineering firms, retailers and other companies pay their female British employees substantially less than their male counterparts and give out lower bonuses, according to gender pay disclosures filed in the United Kingdom. The Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank and Toronto-Dominion said the mean hourly rate for their U.K.-based…
The head of one of France’s most prestigious Champagne houses has weighed into a centuries-old debate about the origin of the sparkling wine by saying that “it was invented by the English". Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, head of the illustrious family-owned producer, Taittinger Champagne, made the comment in an interview with Le Figaro newspaper. “I love England, it’s a big…