Paris is bracing for a day of “ultra-violent” unrest on Saturday as moderate figureheads of the “yellow vest” movement urged protesters to stay away from the French capital on Saturday. The city is preparing for lock down with a string of stores, museums and landmarks, including the Louvre, Eiffel Tower and Galeries Lafayette shut for
Tim Hortons locations across the country have been hit by a computer virus that forced some locations to shut down over the past week. The company told The Canadian Press that it started working with an external vendor last week to fix the problem. Customer data and credit card information was not affected by the
How much should a corporate executive make? Perhaps more importantly, how much should they make in contrast to the people they employ? A 2014 study from Harvard Business School found people greatly underestimate how much more than their workers CEOs make. In Denmark, those surveyed estimated that CEOs made 3.7 times the average employee’s income,
A radical Islamist suspected of helping organise the deadly 2015 attack on the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo has been handed preliminary terrorism charges after being extradited from Djibouti to France. Peter Cherif, also known by the pseudonym Abu Hamza, was a close friend of the two Kouachi brothers who killed 11 people at the
Marina Begum’s Bangladeshi election campaign ended prematurely in mid-December when pellets allegedly fired during an opposition rally ripped into her face and stole her eyesight. The high-profile opposition activist is one of more than one hundred people who have been injured during election violence in the run up to Bangladesh’s general election on Sunday, according
Imagine never needing to pay a hydro bill because your house could generate all the power you need on its own. That’s what net-zero homes do— they produce as much energy as an average family living in them would use. Over the course of the year, a net-zero energy home will produce as much power
Angela Merkel may be on her way out, but as she plots her departure from an increasingly chaotic European political stage she demonstrated once again yesterday why she is one of the great political survivors. The election of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer by the narrow margin of just 35 out of nearly 1,000 votes came after Mrs
A 16-year-old was arrested after a stabbing at the Church of Scientology headquarters in Sydney which left a man dead and another injured. Police said the teenager was asked to leave the church and was being escorted away by two men when he produced a 10-inch kitchen knife and allegedly attacked the pair in what
LONDON (Reuters) — Diageo, the world’s largest spirits company, is launching a U.S. limited edition of its Johnnie Walker Black Label Scotch featuring a woman on the label, called Jane Walker, it said on Monday. The launch in March marks the first major change to the brand’s “striding man” logo in over a century and
EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is threatening to turn off the oil taps in a fight with British Columbia over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Notley won’t say if she would cut off B.C. or the rest of Canada — or both — but says her government is ready to pass legislation to make