For all the fear over the U.S. trade war and President Donald Trump’s threats to Canadian sovereignty, this country’s biggest pension funds remain heavily invested in the U.S. The Canada Pension Plan (CPP), the largest pension fund in the country, announced this week that it has grown to a record …
Read More »Syrian rebels advance on heavily defended city of Homs and Damascus suburbs
Syrian rebels continued their lightning advance on Saturday, with news they were active in the suburbs of the capital Damascus and were also closing in on the key central city of Homs, where government forces were dug in, to try to save President Bashar al-Assad’s 24-year rule. Since the rebels’ …
Read More »Airplane heavily damaged after crash landing at Ontario airport
The occupants of a small twin-engine prop plane had a lucky escape after the plane they were in crash-landed at an airport in the township of Oro-Medonte Tuesday afternoon. Members of the Orillia detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), along with Oro-Medonte fire and the County of Simcoe Paramedics, …
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