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  • Three Red Sea underwater data cables have been cut as Houthi attacks continue in the vital waterway

    March 04, 2024 - 9:45 AM

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Three Red Sea underwater cables providing internet and telecommunications around the world have been cut as the waterway remains a target of Yemen’s Houthi rebels, officials said Monday. Meanwhile, a Houthi missile attack set a ship ablaze in the Gulf of Aden, but caused no injuries.

  • Twitter risks fraying as engineers exit over Musk upheaval

    November 18, 2022 - 3:54 PM

    Elon Musk’s managerial bomb-throwing at Twitter has so thinned the ranks of software engineers who keep the world’s de-facto public square up and running that industry insiders and programmers who were fired or resigned this week agree: Twitter may soon fray so badly it could actually crash.

  • Government failing disabled veterans with delays, long wait times: auditor general

    May 31, 2022 - 12:30 PM

    OTTAWA - The federal government is failing to keep its promise to care for veterans, Canada’s auditor general declared on Tuesday as she called for a real plan to ensure ill and injured ex-soldiers aren’t forced to wait months, or even years, for the support they need.

  • Rescuers race to prevent more deaths from European floods

    July 16, 2021 - 1:38 PM

    BERLIN (AP) — In one flooded German town, the ground collapsed under family homes. In another, floodwaters swept through an assisted living center, killing 12.

  • Promote Indigenous access to disability tax credit, advisory committee recommends

    April 09, 2021 - 12:47 PM

    OTTAWA - An advisory committee is calling on the Canada Revenue Agency to promote access to the disability tax credit in Indigenous communities.

  • New York is latest state to legalize recreational marijuana

    March 31, 2021 - 12:37 PM

    New York adults over the age of 21 can now possess and use marijuana — even in public — under a legalization bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, though legal sales of recreational-use cannabis won’t start for an estimated 18 months until regulations are set.

  • New York lawmakers agree to legalize recreational marijuana

    March 28, 2021 - 4:35 PM

    ALBANY, N.Y. - New York is poised to join a growing number of states that have legalized marijuana after state lawmakers reached a deal to allow sales of the drug for recreational use.

  • Government shutdown poses increasing risk to wider economy

    January 23, 2019 - 10:03 PM

    WASHINGTON - At this time of year, John Sprinkle and his wife would normally be planning their summer vacation. Not now. Sprinkle, a furloughed federal employee, is about to miss his second paycheque since the partial government shutdown began just before Christmas.

  • Government shutdown poses increasing risk to wider economy

    January 23, 2019 - 3:11 PM

    WASHINGTON - At this time of year, John Sprinkle and his wife would normally be planning their summer vacation. Not now. Sprinkle, a furloughed federal employee, is about to miss his second paycheque since the partial government shutdown began just before Christmas.

  • Trump signs order to create US Space Command

    December 18, 2018 - 8:37 AM

    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump launched the Pentagon's new Space Command Tuesday, an effort to better organize and advance the military's vast operations in space that could cost as much as $800 million over the next five years.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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