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Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the …
Read More »Trump pauses U.S. effort to guide vessels through Strait of Hormuz in bid to make deal with Iran
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. U.S. President Donald Trump says that he has paused the U.S. effort to guide stranded vessels …
Read More »‘We have only just begun,’ Hegseth says of Iran as Senate blocks effort to limit war powers
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran widened sharply on Wednesday, with U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth …
Read More »In Ukraine, the agonizing effort to identify the war dead overwhelms forensic workers
In a small reception room at a hospital in Dnipro, in south-central Ukraine, Viktoria Lants struggled to look at the computer screen as a forensic worker shuffled through photos of the remains catalogued in the overwhelmed morgue. Some images were of badly damaged bodies, military clothing and a pocket knife. When her family was led …
Read More »Federal government’s effort to shed underused office space falling short, audit finds
A new report by Canada’s auditor general says the 10-year plan to cut federal government office space in half is not on track. One of eight performance audits released Tuesday morning by Auditor General Karen Hogan found the reduction effort launched in 2019 has only just begun, “mainly because of a lack of …
Read More »Elon Musk leaves Trump administration after leading effort to slash U.S. government
Elon Musk is leaving his government role as a top adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump after spearheading efforts to reduce and overhaul the federal bureaucracy. His departure, announced Wednesday evening, marks the end of a turbulent chapter that included thousands of layoffs, the evisceration of government agencies and reams …
Read More »Roadside killing of OPP officer Greg Pierzchala a ‘joint effort,’ Crown tells Cayuga, Ont., trial
Nearly a month after the start of the trial into the killing of an Ontario Provincial Police constable, the Crown began its closing arguments, arguing Tuesday that Randall McKenzie shot and killed Greg Pierzchala and Brandi Stewart-Sperry helped him do it. McKenzie and Stewart-Sperry have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the December …
Read More »U.S. will walk away from Russia-Ukraine peace effort if no progress made soon, Rubio says
U.S. President Donald Trump will walk away from trying to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal within days unless there are clear signs that a deal can be done, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday. “We’re not going to continue with this endeavour for weeks and months on …
Read More »Ontario government and doctors reach last minute deal in effort to save virtual ERs
Ontario has granted a three-month funding extension for doctors to provide care through virtual emergency departments, The Canadian Press has learned. Several hospitals had said they planned to shut down their virtual ERs — and one says it still will — because the provincial funding was set to run out …
Read More »Louise Dean graduates, students come together in effort to save school for teen moms
The walk of shame. Tina Cobey says that’s what Louise Dean students used to call the walk into school each morning. It was the 1980s, and the program for pregnant teens and young moms was at Ernest Manning High School. Every morning, Cobey would walk her newborn son in his …
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