The popular video game-turned TV show, The Last of Us was a huge success for the Alberta economy. According to a new report by Oxford Economics, $141 million was spent across the province to ensure the show became a reality, making it the largest series ever filmed in Canada. “Including $70 million on labour and … Read more
Channel president says change aims to put network in ‘better position’ for the 2024 US elections, The Hill reports. Washington, DC – MSNBC has cancelled Mehdi Hasan’s weekend TV programme, sparking anger from many Palestinian rights supporters who consider the progressive host a rare critic of Israeli policies on United States cable news. The decision, … Read more
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NEW DELHI: Following Israel’s ban on Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, Israel ambassador Naor Gilon expressed hope India will proscribe Hamas, saying the Netanyahus government has already shared information with Indian authorities about its terrorist activities. India had described Hamas‘s October 7 assault on Israel as a terrorist attack but has not banned the group that … Read more
A number of social media accounts, many of them based in India, have been sharing a video that they claim shows a group of young French women beating up “migrants” who tried to harass them in the street. It turns out, however, the video shows a staged fight scene featuring students at a French school … Read more
Federal Reserve officials at their most recent meeting expressed little appetite for cutting interest rates anytime soon, particularly as inflation remains well above their goal, according to minutes released Tuesday. The summary of the meeting, held Oct. 31-Nov. 1, showed that Federal Open Market Committee members still worry that inflation could be stubborn or move … Read more
The Calgary Police Service is coming under fire after video footage allegedly shows the use of aggressive tactics on protesters that included a youth and a woman. Ward 5 Coun. Raj Dhaliwal, who until recently was a police commissioner, was disturbed by the information being spread on social media. “It’s disturbing to me. You have … Read more
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save After President Biden made international news for agreeing in a 2021 televised interview that Vladimir Putin was “a killer,” a German news service asked journalist Hubert Seipel for his expert take. Seipel, who happened to have just published a book about Russia, agreed to share … Read more
LONDON: Earlier this year, the doctor who leads the World Health Organisation’s efforts to prevent sexual abuse travelled to Congo to address the biggest known sex scandal in the UN health agency’s history, the abuse of well over 100 local women by staffers and others during a deadly Ebola outbreak. According to an internal WHO … Read more
LONDON: Earlier this year, the doctor who leads the World Health Organization’s efforts to prevent sexual abuse travelled to Congo to address the biggest known sex scandal in the U.N. health agency’s history, the abuse of well over 100 local women by staffers and others during a deadly Ebola outbreak. According to an internal WHO … Read more