By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer on Friday plans to drop a previous pledge to balance the budget within two years if elected, saying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has made it impossible to do so responsibly. In a speech on his economic policy he will deliver at […]
By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has been criticized by some indigenous communities, on Thursday apologized and posthumously exonerated a Cree chief unjustly imprisoned for treason more than 130 years ago. The Liberal prime minister received widespread support from Canada’s First Nations when he ran for office four years […]
FATICK, Senegal (Reuters) – Marie Diouf has built a business gathering salt from marshland she bought in Senegal, succeeding in a trade where most marsh owners are men and earning her the nickname “Salt Queen”. Diouf, 35, began her venture a decade ago, investing her savings to buy her own salt flats in Fatick, one […]
By Andrew MacAskill and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) – Author Judith Kerr, who enchanted generations of children with simply illustrated tales such as “The Tiger Who Came to Tea” and “Mog the Forgetful Cat”, has died at the age of 95. The death of one of the most popular authors of children’s books in the […]
By Richard Lough GRAIGNES, France (Reuters) – The lost U.S. paratrooper tapped on the door of the Rigault family’s farmhouse in Normandy in the early hours of June 6, 1944, miles south of his intended drop zone and soaking from his landing in the surrounding marshland. After four years under German occupation, 12-year-old Marthe Rigault, […]
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday said Canada would spend an estimated C$15.7 billion ($11.7 billion) to renew its coast guard fleet and that it would partner with a new shipyard to complete the project. Two Arctic icebreakers will be among a total of 18 new ships ordered, Trudeau told reporters in […]
By David Lawder and Michael Martina WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing is ready to resume trade talks with Washington, China’s ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai said, as a top U.S. business lobby in China said nearly half its members are seeing non-tariff barrier retaliation in China due to the trade war. No further trade […]
By Richard Lough SWORD BEACH, France (Reuters) – Leon Gautier landed on Sword Beach in a hail of enemy fire on June 6, 1944, one of the first wave of French commandos to storm the Normandy beachfront defended by Hitler’s troops. Seventy-five years on, he still grapples with the memories. Today, 96-year-old Gautier, his wit […]
By Diego Oré MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he had ordered his foreign minister to seek a pact with the United States, Canada and other nations in support of a development plan for Central America to control immigration. Lopez Obrador has said he wants the United States […]
