Theresa May has suffered another significant defeat to her Brexit plan, after MPs voted on Friday to reject her withdrawal agreement by a majority of 58. On the day the UK had originally been due…
North Macedonia moved a step closer to Nato membership on Wednesday, signing accession papers after resolving a long-running name row with Greece, whose own region in the north of the country is called Macedonia. Nato Secretary…
France is to recognise anti-Zionism, the denial of the state of Israel, as a form of anti-Semitism in response to a surge in acts against Jews not seen “since the Second World War”. Emmanuel Macron,…
Climate change can seem like an impossible problem to tackle. If entire countries can’t figure it out, then how can individual people? But part of the problem for larger entities trying to tackle climate change…
Rising interest rates and tough new mortgage rules have achieved what Canadians themselves couldn’t: A halt to relentlessly rising debt levels. But the flipside of this new-found fiscal responsibility is slowing consumer credit. Statistics Canada…
Robert Kraft, one of the most powerful figures in US sport, has been charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution. Mr Kraft, the owner of Super Bowl winners New England Patriots, is one of 25…
If you’re an iPhone user with small hands, Apple is slowly turning its back on you. It’s not you, it’s them. That’s because the devices keep getting bigger, and the tech giant is slowly but…
The recently released survey of all employees at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) conducted by The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PSC), the largest union in Canada representing federal government professionals, has…
QUEBEC — The Quebec government tabled legislation Thursday to prohibit public sector employees in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols at work. The law affects teachers, judges, police officers, prison guards, Crown prosecutors and…
A shocking range of plastic, from sweet wrappers to packaging with Arabic script, has been discovered in a large marine turtle that died on the Italian coast. The loggerhead turtle was found on a beach…