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WorldEvery year, there are Oscar-bait films: stories designed to play on the emotions and sentimentalities of a voting body that seem to care more about how artistic a movie feels than actually is. And every year, audiences turn against them as contrived, out of touch and desperate. Which you'd think...
WorldSocial media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate must remain in custody as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking, a federal judge in Miami ruled Wednesday. U.S. Magistrate Lauren Louis denied a defence motion for release, meaning...
WorldPrime Minister Mark Carney is gathering his cabinet today and Friday in the mountain resort town of Banff, Alta., for closed-door meetings as U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war intensifies. Trump lashed out again Tuesday by signing executive orders to ban certain Canadian imports later this...
WorldPolice in Edmonton will hold a news conference Thursday afternoon on their probe into the stabbing of two worshippers at a Sikh temple in the city’s northeast. Investigators have expressed charges were pending against a 27-year-old man who, a day after leaving prison, entered the Nanaksar Gurdwa...
WorldThe leaders of the five main provincial parties are back on the road after back-to-back interviews on prime-time television Wednesday night. Talk about the trade war with the United States and Quebec sovereignty dominated the first high-profile event of the provincial election campaign. While t...
WorldWhen Thélyson Orélien learned that his first novel had made it on a shortlist for France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt, he thought about two places: Haiti, where he was born, and Quebec, where he says his life as a writer truly began. “It’s difficult to take in, to be honest,” Orélien told The Can...
WorldFrom the first weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks to the chaotic U.S. withdrawal and return of the Taliban, The New York Times has documented a quarter-century of conflict and daily life in Afghanistan.
WorldU.S. President Donald Trump this week recounted an incident in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in downtown Manhattan that was long on descriptive detail but not easily verified. At a Tuesday event in Washington, D.C., organized by a Sept. 11 foundation, Trump recalled being near Gro...
WorldAt least 20 people have been killed in a fire aboard a foreign cargo vessel undergoing repairs at a state-owned shipyard in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao on Thursday, state media conveyed, with five others still missing. The fire broke out at about 11:15 a.m. local time at the Qingdao B...
WorldThe Iran-backed militia routed Yemeni administration forces in Mokha, putting the group in a stronger position to attack ships in a crucial waterway for global trade.
WorldEmbracing positions extolled by the Kremlin, the Alternative for Germany party may govern for the first time in a German state.
WorldThe Houthi militia, the Yemeni the government body, Iran and Saudi Arabia all have reasons to escalate the conflict.