Ahn Nguyen fled Vietnam with her parents when the communists took over in 1975. They lost their home and land but considered themselves fortunate to be able to start over again in Canada.
She then met her husband, Tien, and 35 years ago the family began fishing for elvers — tiny translucent baby eels netted in Maritime rivers and shipped to Asia where they are grown for food.
Israel supporters were involved in serious clashes at the Stade de France during the powder-keg international against France in Paris.
Outside the stadium, a fearsome police presence surrounded pro-Palestinian demonstrations but skirmishes erupted in the stands during the match.
Fans wearing Israel flags were involved in confrontations broken up by under-cover French officers although it was not immediately clear whether they were fighting pro-Palestine protesters.
HAPPENING NOW: Middle Eastern migrants in the Stade de France have started attacking Israeli fans.
Europe must deal with the clear and looming threats of radical fanatics who bring violence everywhere they go.
pic.twitter.com/WI0vPBivCx— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) November 14, 2024
He was a poster boy for cryptocurrency whose sudden ascent to stratospheric wealth was matched only by his downfall, as his financial empire fell to pieces and he found himself in a federal prison.
Now Hollywood studios are lining up to tell the story of Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced former-billionaire who stole $8 billion from investors and customers of FTX, the trading exchange he founded, that he had promised was a safe way to buy and sell bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
This year’s deadline to apply for Toronto’s Youth Climate Action Grants has just passed so the city’s climate bureaucrats are now presumably reading grant applications from school children who want to engage in climate change activism. The program, a partnership between the City of Toronto, the Toronto District School Board and the Toronto Catholic District School Board, invites kids from junior kindergarten to grade 12 to apply for up to $1,000 per project or activity to educate and engage Torontonians on climate actions.
The Iranian state has said that it plans to open a treatment clinic for women who defy the mandatory hijab laws that require women to cover their heads in public.
The opening of a “hijab removal treatment clinic” was announced by Mehri Talebi Darestani, the head of the Women and Family Department of the Tehran Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. She said the clinic will offer “scientific and psychological treatment for hijab removal”.
Iranian women and human rights groups have expressed outrage at the announcement.
Uranium is making a comeback thanks to a renewed focus on nuclear energy as a climate crisis solution. Canada, rich with high-grade deposits, could become a nuclear “superpower”. But can its potential be realised?
Leigh Curyer had been working in uranium mining for nearly two decades when he noticed a striking shift.
In 2011, the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in Japan badly damaged the world’s view of nuclear power, and the price for the heavy metal – a critical component for nuclear fuel – cratered.
The most tedious refrain to emerge from the verbal vomit spewed by the Never Trump grift nonces was the idea that the Republican Party needed to be “saved” from Donald Trump. Throughout the 2024 election cycle, the professional concern trolls at The New York Times and The Washington Post repeated variations of the idea as if they were being paid by the mention.
Abbotsford, B.C., man guilty of trafficking in bear parts receives minimum fine
An Abbotsford, B.C., man who was caught buying black bear paws and kneecaps in a sting operation pleaded guilty to charges under the Wildlife Act in Port Coquitlam Provincial Court on Wednesday.
Hong Tao Yang, 52, originally faced five counts, but agreed to plead guilty to two charges of trafficking in bear paws and one charge of trafficking in wildlife meat. The other two charges were stayed.
Yang was fined $8,625, the statutory minimum for the three offences, and given 18 months to pay.
Rachel Zegler, the star of Disney’s upcoming live-action Snow White remake, has a message for the 75.6 million Americans who voted for President-elect Donald Trump this year: may you “never know peace.”
A few days before the 2019 federal election, I received calls from the embassies of G20 countries. I was a senior adviser to Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer at the time. Their request was simple: if the Conservatives won, how could we arrange congratulatory calls from their leaders to Scheer in the hours following the election results?
They wanted to ensure they were at the top of the call list. We set up a protocol between myself and my chief of staff at the time, Marc-André Leclerc, who was in Regina for election night, while I was at the Conservative Party’s HQ in Ottawa.
A California teacher reportedly stormed out of her classroom after seeing a student wear a Make America Great Again shirt last week.
The unidentified Spanish teacher at Cerritos High School later sent students a lengthy email in which she argued that MAGA clothes are ‘meant to intimidate both students and teachers’ and called president-elect Donald Trump a ‘fascist.’
Parliamentarians are calling for an emergency probe into Canada’s vulnerability to Islamist terror after the RCMP foiled an alleged terrorist attack against a pro-Israel rally on Parliament Hill.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that Canada is a high priority target for ISIS inspired terrorists,” reads a Wednesday letter signed by Conservative members of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.
Lss than 24 hours before the kickoff of the soccer game that will be held under unprecedented security and in the presence of the French head of state and senior officials, violent riots have broken out in Paris.
The UEFA game between France and Israel will take place this evening (Thursday) at the Parc des Princes Stadium, France’s national stadium. A demonstration of pro-Arab activists went out of control and turned into severe violent events and clashes between police and demonstrators.
An antisemitic riot broke out in Paris a few hours ago.
The French and Israeli national football teams will play each other in Paris today.
France has called in 4000 policemen in an effort to protect French Jews and Israeli visitors from antisemitic attacks pic.twitter.com/6UJh6o3e0s
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) November 14, 2024
Immigration Minister Marc Miller on Wednesday said “the age of unlimited supply of cheap foreign labour is over,” and that employers may need to offer higher wages to attract more Canadian workers.
Speaking to reporters after addressing the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, Miller also suggested the federal government may be looking at boosting enforcement resources to crack down on irregular migrants who don’t leave Canada, and addressed the need for mutual enforcement of the Safe Third Country Agreement with the U.S.
The damage is done.
A Fox News ally for defense secretary. A former Democrat-turned-Trump-World-celebrity to oversee 18 spy agencies. A right-wing provocateur for the nation’s top law enforcement job.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s appointments for top government jobs continued to roll in fast and furiously on Wednesday, and his promise to build a presidential administration fueled by retribution quickly came into view.
Those plans were perhaps best summarized by Representative Matt Gaetz, who wrote of his enthusiasm for the wholesale elimination of federal law enforcement agencies just hours before Mr. Trump announced he’d chosen the Florida Republican to lead the Justice Department:
