TORONTO — Ontario will spend $90 million this year to fund hundreds of hospital beds ahead of flu season, a measure the province’s health minister said will help address the issue of so-called hallway medicine. Christine Elliott said the funding will help Ontario’s hospital system deal with overcrowding that has resulted in patients being treated
Yevgeny Roizman, the mayor of Yekaterinburg, Russia, who had risen to fame through his controversial anti-drug policies, has announced his resignation in protest of cancellation of mayoral elections. On Tuesday Roizman refused to put the issue of cancellation on the agenda of the city legislature. Some of the lawmakers proposed that procedural issues should be
In a presentation given during GDC 2019, God of War director Cory Barlog revealed how he actively approached the game as a continuation rather than a reboot, that the game’s script had been rewritten after a year of work, and how he continuously pitched the game during the course of development. Before writing the game,
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – UVa-Wise’s Taylor Brandts and West Texas A&M’s Kylee Moore garneredLouisville Slugger / NFCA Division II National Pitcher and Player of the Week honors, respectively, for games played April 10-16. Brandts was unhittable in two starts last week twirling a pair of no-hitters in Mountain East Conference play. The junior right-hander struck out
OTTAWA — Twelve months from now, Canadians will pass judgment on the Trudeau government and decide whether its first mandate should be its last or if it deserves another four years. As the one-year countdown to the next federal election on Oct. 21, 2019 starts ticking, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals appear reasonably well positioned to win
Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov has invited the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, to participate in festivities – to be held in Grozny in early October – marking the 200th anniversary of the city’s founding. Kadyrov personally announced the invitation in a post on Chechnya’s own social network Mylistory. He wrote that he had
Apple has officially announced a games subscription service called Apple Arcade during today’s special event in the Steve Jobs Theater. As revealed during the announcement event, Apple Arcade is a single subscription with access to over 100 new and exclusive games, with more to be added. It will be available in Fall 2019 in 150
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – As Florida State held on to the No. 1 ranking, Texas &M made the most noise in the USA Today/NFCA Division I Coaches Poll, for games played Feb. 20-26. The undefeated Aggies (15-0), who knocked off the Seminoles (14-1-1) and three other nationally-ranked programs on the second weekend of the prestigious Mary
Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev has said that a terrible conflict could emerge from Georgia’s accession into the NATO bloc and noted that there was no real justification of such risk. “This could provoke a terrible conflict, and it is not clear why is this necessary,” the official said in an interview with Kommersant radio aired
INDIANAPOLIS —The NCAA Division III Softball Committee has announced the 62 teams that will compete in the Division III Softball Championship. The regional round will be held May 11-14. Four teams will compete at 14 regional sites and three teams will compete at two regional sites. The team advancing from each regional will compete in