US President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the deaths of migrants who were in the back of a tractor-trailer in Texas were “horrifying and heartbreaking.” “Initial reports are that this tragedy was caused by smugglers or human traffickers who have no regard for the lives they endanger and exploit to make a profit,” he said … Read more
The head of Ontario’s COVID-19 science table says a subvariant of Omicron is soon expected to become the dominant strain in the province. The growth rate of the BA.5 subvariant has outpaced all previous lineages of the virus, according to a recent report from Public Health Ontario (PHO). Dr. Fahad Razak, scientific director of the … Read more
Photo: The Canadian Press Dmaged shopping center after a rocket attack in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, Tuesday. French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that Russia “cannot and should not win” the war in Ukraine, as its terrible toll was on full view the day after a Russian missile strike hit a shopping mall, killing 18 people. Speaking … Read more
Cassidy Hutchinson, a key aide in former US president Donald Trump’s White House, told the House committee investigating the violent Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection on Tuesday that Trump was informed that people rallying on the mall that morning had weapons but he told officials to “let my people in” and march to the Capitol. Hutchinson … Read more
Photo: The Canadian Press Leaders of the world’s biggest developed economies said Tuesday they would explore far-reaching steps to cap Russia’s income from oil sales that are financing its invasion of Ukraine and struck a united stance to support Kyiv for “as long as it takes” as the war grinds we. The final statement from … Read more
The leaders of the world’s wealthiest democracies, meeting in the Bavarian Alps, ended their annual summit on Tuesday vowing to do everything in their power to stop Russia from using energy as a weapon to profit from its invasion of Ukraine. The G7 condemned Russia’s missile strike on a crowded shopping mall in the central … Read more
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending Canadian military spending after a new NATO report this week showed Canada heading in the wrong direction. Canada and other members of the NATO military alliance agreed in 2014 to increase their defense spending to two per cent of their national gross domestic product. But the new report released … Read more
The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection is expected to hear live public testimony on Tuesday from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Mark Meadows, the last chief of staff to Donald Trump, according to a source familiar with the matter. The committee on Monday abruptly scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, suggesting a … Read more
CNN — The US carried out a strike in Syria on Monday targeting a senior leader of Hurras al-Din, an al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist organization, according to a statement from US Central Command. The US is “highly confident” that the strike, carried out from a drone, killed Abu Hamzah al Yemeni, a US official with knowledge … Read more
‘No country in the world, including Canada, is immune to what’s going on in the United States,’ said Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly OTTAWA — After the US Supreme Court struck down its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision Friday—the ruling that had, for decades, guaranteed a woman’s right to get an abortion across the United States—Liberal … Read more
