Schools in southern China are forcing children to wear uniforms embedded with computer chips that track their movement and trigger an alarm if they skip class. More that more than 10 schools in Guizhou province and the neighboring autonomous region of Guangxi are now requiring students to wear “intelligent uniforms”, according to the state-run newspaper The…
CALGARY — Enbridge Inc. has signed a deal for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to buy 49 per cent of the pipeline company’s interests in a group of renewable power assets for $1.75 billion. Enbridge says the agreement will see the creation of a joint venture that includes all its Canadian renewable power assets,…
Oleg Deripaska, the Russian oligarch, was yesterday accused by the United States of working with a former Kremlin intelligence officer to interfere in Montenegro’s 2016 elections. The US Treasury announced sanctions against Victor Alekseyevich Boyarkin, once a member of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency but now working for Mr Deripaska, according to the…
Click:fugitive emission gate valve OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government is spending $4.5 billion to buy Trans Mountain and all of Kinder Morgan Canada’s core assets, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Tuesday as he unveiled the government’s long-awaited, big-budget strategy to save the plan to expand the oilsands pipeline. In return, Kinder Morgan will go…
If you are a Gen Xer or millennial, now is your time. For the last 35 to 40 years, baby boomers have been the largest population and the largest workforce. That has now changed. Millennials have replaced boomers as the largest workforce because more than half of boomers have officially retired. The Gen X population…
Columbine High School, the site of an infamous 1999 massacre, was on lockdown today after police alerts of a suspicious person in the area who made threats against the school. School officials in Jefferson County, Colorado said that 24 schools were similarly locked down as the sheriff’s office advised people to avoid the area and dispatched police…
Canadians have squirreled away potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in offshore tax havens, avoiding up to $3 billion in taxes annually, according to new numbers from Canada Revenue Agency. The agency estimates Canadian had between $75.9 billion and $240.5 billion in tax havens in 2013. That number is only for individual taxpayers, and doesn’t…
France’s "yellow vest" anti-government protesters turned out yet again on Saturday – but Paris was spared a repeat of the violence as demonstrations were heavily toned down. However, a fatal road accident, in which a car hit a truck at a roadblock erected by protesters in southern France, brought the death toll to 10 since…
TORONTO — Filipino fast-food chain Jollibee Food Corporation plans to open 100 stores in Canada within the next five years. The company says it is eyeing the wave of new locations because the country is a key growth market and a big part of its North American expansion plans. Jollibee attracted long lines of customers…
President Donald Trump has blamed the Democrats for the deaths of two migrant children in US custody, lashing out also at the childrens’ parents for mistreating them. On Christmas Day it was announced that an eight-year-old boy from Guatemala died in US government custody, becoming the second migrant child to pass away while in the…