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U.S. President Donald Trump is musing about a “friendly takeover of Cuba” as his administration tightens its economic squeeze on the island’s communist government. Trump has moved to choke off much of Cuba’s supply of crude oil, decimating the island’s tourist industry and putting mounting pressure on the Cuban government …
Read More »This Albertan signed up to fight in Ukraine. He was nearly killed by friendly fire
As David Rauser stood outside the entrance of a makeshift Russian bunker in eastern Ukraine’s embattled Donetsk region in November, the Alberta former firefighter-turned-soldier clutched his automatic weapon. He peered into the shelter that was mostly obscured by a large plastic tarp. Inside, Russian voices cut through the darkness, asking …
Read More »B.C. mayor wants help fending off ‘not very friendly’ bison from N.W.T.
A mayor in northern B.C. is asking the province to install cattle guards along a bridge on Highway 77 to fend off what he describes as an invasive herd of bison migrating from the Northwest Territories to graze. In a letter to Transportation Minister Rob Fleming dated mid-July, Gary Foster, mayor of the Northern Rockies …
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