
German farmers began a week of nationwide protests Monday, causing traffic jams across the country as they blocked streets and highways with thousands of tractors and trucks.
Monday’s actions were the latest in a series of protests venting anger over the coalition government’s decision to cut some diesel subsidies to farmers and transport truckers.
The cuts were due to budget shortfalls after Germany’s Constitutional Court declared Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government could not reallocate tens of billions in coronavirus relief funds for other purposes.


Access-to-information records showed that federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller allowed hundreds of thousands of foreign students to work unlimited hours without researching the impact on unemployed 

Pope Francis is not known for being the most conservative Roman Catholic pontiff. His recent condemnation of the international rent-a-womb industry, however, proves you don’t have to be a conservative or even religious powerhouse to agree that surrogacy is an evil practice that harms women and 






A Toronto man facing multiple counts of attempted murder for an alleged drive-by shooting in Scarborough is back in jail after a judge found that a justice of the peace was wrong to release him on bail pending his trial.