CALGARY — Crude oil prices in Western Canada remained elevated on Wednesday, the day after provincially mandated oil production curtailments came into force, but a government spokesman says it’s too early to say how long the program will remain in place. The difference between Western Canadian Select bitumen-blend heavy oil and New York-traded West Texas…
Jada Pinkett Smith is putting everything on the “Table.” The “Girls Trip” actress confessed to a self-described “sex addiction” on her Facebook Watch show “Red Table Talk” on Monday. “When I was younger, I definitely think I had a sex addiction of some kind, yes, that everything could be fixed by sex,” she said. Pinkett…
The ESRB has rated Insomniac Games’ Sunset Overdrive for PC. As first reported by Gematsu, this ESRB rating follows Sunset Overdrive also being rated on PC by the Game Rating and Administration Committee of Korea back in May. Sunset Overdrive was released as an Xbox One exclusive in October 2014, but with the Korean Committee…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Three-time reigning national champion Tufts University, the first team to win three straight Division III national championships, finished the season where it started — as the unanimous No. 1 team in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Top 25 softball rankings. The Jumbos were a perfect 51-0 this season and defeated…
Membership of Japan’s once-feared yakuza gangs has shrunk to 30,500, down from a peak of more than 184,000 in the early 1960s, thanks in large part to an ongoing police crackdown on organised crime and public attitudes towards gangs hardening. The National Police Agency announced that membership of Yakuza groups fell to 30,500 in 2018,…
OTTAWA — The head of SNC-Lavalin told the Canadian government it had to change its anti-corruption rules “as expeditiously as possible” in a 2017 letter to the minister in charge of procurement, just as her department was helping oversee public consultations on lighter punishments for corporate misconduct. SNC-Lavalin CEO Neil Bruce wrote to Public Services…
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Belgium earned its highest World Cup finish on Saturday by beating England 2-0 in the third-place match. Thomas Meunier and Eden Hazard scored a goal each for the Belgians, who lost to France in the semifinals on Tuesday. Both teams were playing for the seventh time in 26 days, but Belgium…
A starving whale with 40 kilos (88 pounds) of plastic trash in its stomach has died after being washed ashore in the Philippines, activists said Monday, calling it one of the worst cases of poisoning they have seen. Environmental groups have tagged the Philippines as one of the world’s biggest ocean polluters due to its…
TORONTO — Criminals may be taking advantage of lax disclosure rules in the Greater Toronto Area to park billions of dollars in ill-gotten gains in the regional housing market according to a new report. The report out Thursday by Transparency International Canada, along with Canadians for Tax Fairness and Publish What You Pay Canada, found…
A far-right Australian senator who said the Christchurch mosque massacre was the result of Muslim immigration into New Zealand was censured for his "ugly and divisive" comments by his parliamentary peers on Wednesday. Fraser Anning, who drew international condemnation for linking the March 15 killing of 50 people in two mosques last month to immigration,…