How Tamara Lich came to represent the ‘Freedom Convoy’ movement
OTTAWA – It’s a sunny July day at an outdoor hockey rink outside North Bay, Ont. An acoustic guitar player belts out a ballad about freedom. An adoring crowd …
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Mongolia: Pope sends special greeting to ‘noble’ Chinese
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia – Pope Francis sent a special greeting to China’s “noble” people on Sunday, giving them a special shoutout at the end of a mass celebrated in neighbouring …
Argentina: AI imagines adult faces of disappeared children
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – If a baby was taken from their parents four decades ago during Argentina’s military dictatorship, what would that person look like today? Argentine publicist …
Space: India’s moon rover completes walk, put in sleep mode
NEW DELHI – India’s moon rover has completed its walk on the lunar surface and been put into sleep mode less than two weeks after its historic landing near …
Apple: Taiwan presidential candidate resigns from Foxconn
BEIJING – Aspiring Taiwanese independent presidential candidate Terry Gou has resigned from the board of Foxconn, the Apple supplier he founded nearly a half-century ago. The company, officially …
Ukraine news: Russia attacks seaport before grain deal talks
KYIV, Ukraine – Two people were hospitalized following a 3.5-hour Russian drone barrage on a port in Ukraine’s Odessa region on Sunday, officials said. The attack on the …
How to help kids overcome their ‘math-anxiety’
Learning math equations and solving problems can be fun for some kid and downright uncomfortable for others. But math anxiety and not feeling like “a math person” can …
Burning Man: One death reported as storms hit Nevada desert
RENO, Nev. – Authorities in Nevada were investigating a death at the site of the Burning Man festival where thousands of attendees remained stranded Saturday night as flooding from …
Canada shut its land border to asylum seekers. More came anyway
Toronto – A deal Canada struck this year to stem the flow of asylum seekers entering from the U.S. was, at first glance, a quick success: Within days, the number of …
Queen Elizabeth II’s 100th birthday plans to be unveiled 2026
LONDON – An independent body will unveil plans for a permanent memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in 2026, to mark what would have been the late monarch’s 100th birthday, …