OTTAWA — For the first time in a decade Ontario will not receive an equalization transfer from Ottawa, prompting the province’s finance minister to join calls for the federal government to review how the program is set up. Canada’s finance ministers are in Ottawa for the second of their two yearly meetings, which started with…
2013-14 NFCA NCAA Division IIIAll-Academic Teams School Name GPA Emerson College 3.644 Iowa Wesleyan College 3.571 Illinois Wesleyan University 3.571 Pomona-Pitzer Colleges 3.563 Washington University (Mo.) 3.55 Middlebury College 3.54 Fontbonne University 3.52 Wesleyan University 3.518 Newbury College 3.513 University of Texas at Tyler 3.51 Messiah College 3.502 Otterbein University 3.497 St. Catherine University…
I’m a feminist who, at times, hates on her body (think: cellulite, a stomach that sticks out no matter what YouTube core strengtheners I do, and ingrown hairs that are, as luck would have it, the result of waxing and shaving to appear more, um, feminine and flawless). And guess what? Many of my fellow…
Yemen may finally be “on the path to peace” after nearly five years of war if the two sides follow through on agreements reached at UN-brokered talks last year, Jeremy Hunt has said. Speaking at the start of a Middle East summit in Poland, the Foreign Secretary offered an upbeat assessment of the prospect of…
Acts of mass violence affect us all, triggering a host of emotions. Two incidents in Toronto within just a few months have left many reeling from feelings of fear, despair, disbelief, devastation, anger, deep sadness — and at a general loss for how to cope. Last weekend, a mass shooting in Toronto’s Danforth left two…
A Greek government scheme that grants visas to non-EU citizens in exchange for €250,000 (£219,000) property investments is leading to mass evictions, with renters removed from their homes to make way for AirBnB properties, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. In an echo of the AirBnB ‘epidemic’ in cities such as Barcelona, homes are increasingly being…
Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. is opening a new distribution centre in Leduc County, just south of Edmonton, with plans to create 600 full-time jobs by 2020. The company also says it plans to create 600 new tech jobs in Toronto, which will be in fields including software development, machine learning and cloud computing. Watch:…
2013-14 NFCA NCAA Division IAll-America Scholar Athletes School Player Abilene Christian University Ashley Nolan Peyton Mosley Lyndi Smith Emily Seidel Anna Jones Hannah Null Auburn University Kasey Cooper Jordan Rocker Ball State University Kelsey Schifferdecker Loren Cihlar Lauren Schroeder Hanne Stuedemann Audrey Bickel …
North Korea leader Kim Jong-un was on a train to Vietnam on Sunday for his second summit with President Donald Trump. Mr Kim was accompanied by Kim Yong-chol, who has been a key negotiator in talks with the US, and Kim Yo-jong, the leader’s sister, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency reported. TV footage…
Netflix Canada’s recent foray into the politics of Ontario’s sex education curriculum may be just the start of a new era of corporate activism, one marketing expert says. In a tweet Wednesday, the U.S.-based streaming service took a dig at the provincial government of Premier Doug Ford, which last summer suspended the province’s existing sex-ed…