(Ottawa, Montreal) Ukraine regrets the “dangerous precedent” set by Canada’s decision to allow Siemens to ship six turbines stuck in Montreal to Germany – a breach by Ottawa of its own sanctions regime against Moscow. Canadian-Ukrainians are also angry, and they expressed it in Montreal, where dozens of them gathered in front of Siemens’ offices. … Read more
Joe Biden flies to the Middle East this week. However, he is not short of challenges. It will leave Washington with a host of problems it cannot shake off. And there he will deal mainly with world peace. The man obviously likes to cause trouble. Times in the White House are tough. The means that … Read more
Sorry, your browser doesn’t support videos (Yosemite National Park, California) A wildfire threatening the largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park more than doubled in size in one day, and firefighters worked through difficult terrain Sunday to protect the iconic trees as the United States face another very active year for fires. Posted … Read more
(Berlin) On Monday, Germany and with it Europe will enter a phase of great uncertainty about the continuation of their imports of Russian gas, which have already been sharply reduced in recent weeks, and which could soon dry up completely. Posted at 10:09 p.m Russian giant Gazprom this morning began maintenance work on the two … Read more
A few milligrams of all the scientific news of the week Posted at 6:00 am Mathieu Perréault The press sub zero dinosaurs According to a new American study published in scientific advances Beginning of July. Columbia University paleontologists have analyzed fossils from the Junggar Basin in far north Xinjiang, China, and found that the animals … Read more
“Living” with COVID. That expression always made us cringe. Posted yesterday at 5:00am Obviously we’re all fed up with this damn pandemic. That we strive for a normal life again. But pretending the pandemic is over doesn’t get much better when it clearly isn’t. There are currently 1,549 COVID patients in the hospital. This is … Read more
The Uber platform said Sunday it would not apologize for its “past,” in response to an international probe by journalists that showed the company engaged in brutal practices and “broke the law,” despite restraint from politicians and taxis ‘ to assert oneself. • Also read: Google removes data on abortion clinic visits • Also read: … Read more
Stuck in Montreal, turbines destined for a Russian gas pipeline can be brought back to Germany Updated yesterday at 7:34pm. Melanie Marchese The press (Ottawa) Canada grants Siemens permission to circumvent sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s regime. She gave him the green light on Saturday to send turbines being repaired at the Dorval plant, which Germany … Read more
Anna Nibley Baker, a mother of four in Salt Lake City, is pretty sure she and her husband won’t have any more children. But for eight years — since the birth of her last child, conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) — she thought fondly of the couple’s three remaining embryos, which were frozen and … Read more
The 7the The COVID wave continues to cause concern as Asian Las Vegas, Macau decided to close its casinos and non-essential businesses from Monday. • Also read: COVID forces Quebec travelers to find plans B • Also read: COVID-19: More Quebecers are receiving rapid tests • Also read: A cat would have given the COVID … Read more