OTTAWA, Ontario — Hugs under the falling snow, dancing in the street, people warming themselves around fires. For more than three weeks, semitrucks, cars and pickups sat idle along streets in downtown Ottawa, as hundreds of truckers and other protesters parked side by side and bumper to bumper to oppose vaccine mandates and other COVID […]
By midafternoon, at least 70 people had been arrested, mostly on mischief charges, and more than roughly two dozen vehicles had been towed, including all of those blocking one of city’s major streets, authorities said. Tow truck operators — wearing neon-green ski masks, with their companies’ decals taped over on their trucks to conceal their […]
Busloads of police arrived near Ottawa’s Parliament Hill, and workers put up extra fences around government buildings. The biggest, most damaging of the blockades at the border took place at the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit. Before authorities arrested dozens of protesters last weekend and lifted the siege, it disrupted the flow of […]
Yet whatever impact the protests have on Canadian society and the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, experts say the outside support is really aimed at energizing conservative politics in the U.S. About 44 percent of the nearly $10 million in contributions to support the protesters originated from U.S. The GiveSendGo data listed several Americans […]
The Irrawaddy dolphin, also known as the Mekong River dolphin, is classified as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The tail of the dolphin that died Tuesday was seen tangled in a fishing net about a week earlier, the Cambodian state news agency AKP reported. …Read the full story
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainians defied pressure from Moscow with a national show of flag-waving unity Wednesday, while the U.S. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signaled that he wants a peaceful path out of the crisis, and U.S. Russian Defense Ministry video showed a trainload of armored vehicles moving across a bridge away from Crimea, the […]
PETROPOLIS, Brazil — Rio de Janeiro state’s government has confirmed 94 deaths from floods and mudslides that swept away homes and cars in the city of Petropolis. More than 24 hours after the deadly deluge early Tuesday, survivors were digging to find lost loved ones. Footage posted on social media showed torrents dragging cars and […]
OTTAWA, Ontario — Ottawa’s police chief was ousted Tuesday amid criticism of his inaction against the trucker protests that have paralyzed Canada’s capital for over two weeks, while the number of blockades maintained by demonstrators at the U.S. Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly lost his job after failing to move decisively against the bumper-to-bumper demonstration […]
MADRID — A Spanish fishing boat sank early Tuesday in rough seas off Newfoundland in eastern Canada, killing at least seven people, an official in Spain said. Brian Owens, a spokesman for the rescue center, said high winds, heavy seas and fog were hampering the search, centered on the debris field from the sunken vessel. […]
Invoking the Emergencies Act would allow the government to declare the Ottawa protest illegal and clear it out by such means as towing vehicles, Wark said. “At this point, it would not help the social climate. “He’s got protests right around the country, and now he’s dropping in the polls, desperately trying to save his […]
On Monday, as criticism of his hands-off approach mounted, Trudeau finally took forceful action against the truckers and other protesters who have laid siege to parts of Ottawa, the capital, for more than two weeks. “Many will cheer the Trudeau government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act,” the Star said. The protests have been depicted […]
31 on the daytime talk show where she said the Holocaust was not about race, but rather about man’s inhumanity to others. “I want to thank everybody who reached out while I was away,” Goldberg said at the opening of Monday’s show. Jewish leaders had criticized her initial statement, noting that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler […]
said in a statement that “the Ambassador Bridge is now fully open allowing the free flow of commerce between the Canada and US economies once again.” Esther Jentzen, spokeswoman for the company, said in a later text to The Associated Press that the bridge reopened to traffic at 11 p.m. The mayor shared a letter […]
Invoking the Emergencies Act would allow the government to declare the Ottawa protest illegal and clear it out by such means as towing vehicles, Wark said. “At this point, it would not help the social climate. “He’s got protests right around the country, and now he’s dropping in the polls, desperately trying to save his […]
Fat flakes fell at all three locations that are hosting the Beijing Games. Games workers dressed in head-to-toe hazmat suits rolled around in the snow that blanketed Beijing. …Read the full story
Former President Hamid Karzai at a packed news conference sought the help of Americans, particularly the families of the thousands killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, to press President Joe Biden to rescind last week’s order. However, it was Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar who refused to hand over bin Laden to the U.S. “The […]
Stocks took a sudden turn lower in the middle of trading, with losses for the S&P 500 nearly tripling in about half an hour. They’re just the latest sharp veers in what’s already been a tumultuous 2022 for markets. The S&P 500 fell 85.44 points to 4,418.64 to lock in its first weekly loss in […]
In Ottawa, the ranks of protesters swelled to what police said was 4,000 demonstrators. The protests at the bridge, in Ottawa and elsewhere have reverberated outside the country, with similarly inspired convoys in France, New Zealand and the Netherlands, and the U.S. “But no one — not the city, the province or the federal government […]
President Joe Biden on his first day in office restored the climate cost estimate to about $51 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions after the Trump administration had reduced the figure to about $7 or less per ton. The estimate would be used to shape future rules for oil and gas drilling, automobiles, and other […]
