British pensioners on holiday in Cuba have been injured in a bus crash which killed seven, including four foreign tourists. The Via Azul coach was travelling between the small city of Baracoa, on the far eastern tip of the island, and the capital Havana when it overturned. Baracoa, an attractive coastal community where Christopher Columbus
Mutant Year Zero, the much-loved XCOM-alike from developer The Bearded Ladies, is coming to Nintendo Switch later this year. First released last December, it’s a spin on a popular Swedish board game that has a very familiar take on turn-based strategy that’s emboldened by its abundance of character. We thought that its group of misfits
OTTAWA — Bowing to concerns about international competitiveness, the Trudeau government is scaling back carbon pricing requirements for some of the country’s heaviest energy users, and signalling that more easing could come before the plan takes effect in 2019. Environment and Climate Change Canada has issued new requirements that will increase the emissions threshold at
Twitter retweets are not a legitimate form of currency and we need to stop begging for things with them. There, I said it. It’s enabling people to make poor life choices and force others to be responsible for their happiness. And it’s embarrassing — if the Earth was actually flat, I’d walk right off into
OTTAWA — The United States fired back Monday at the Canadian government’s retaliatory tariffs on American imports by launching a formal challenge with the World Trade Organization. The Trump administration also called countermeasures aimed at the U.S. by Canada and other trading partners “completely without justification under international rules.” The federal Liberal government introduced reciprocal
A blast of icy polar air brought dangerously low temperatures to the US Midwest on Wednesday, causing at least three more deaths while halting mail deliveries and forcing residents who pride themselves on their winter hardiness to huddle indoors. Classes were cancelled for Wednesday and Thursday for students across the Midwest, including Chicago, home of the nation’s third-largest school system,
Never bring a knife to a gunfight, they say. And yet, we, the global tuberculosis (TB) community have been fighting a long battle with sticks and stones. And we have paid a heavy price. In 2016, there were 10.4 million estimated new TB cases, with over 1.7 million deaths. TB is now the leading infectious
Cancer continues to be one of the most troubling diseases in Canada with more than 206,000 new cases each year and 80,000 deaths. Progress has been made over the last two decades as treatment options have grown and survival rates have improved. Yet the battle continues. Since the 1990s, one of the approaches to fighting
A Scottish aristocrat charged with smuggling cocaine into Kenya is to remain on trial after a magistrate in Nairobi refused to allow the prosecution to drop charges against him. Jack Marrian, nephew to the Earl of Cawdor, had hoped that a 30-month ordeal through the Kenyan courts was about to end during a court hearing
An Orca held with nearly 100 other whales in a scandalous “whale jail” on Russia’s Pacific coast has gone missing and is feared dead. Police said they were investigating the disappearance of an Orca from holding centre in Srednyaya bay near Nakhodka. It was first discovered in November that 11 Orcas and 90 Beluga whales