October, 2024
Montreal dockworkers hold 1-day strike to put pressure on employer
Port of Montreal longshore workers held a three-day strike outside the Maisonneuve Termont terminal in Montreal at the end of September. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press) Dockworkers at the Port of Montreal walked off the job early Sunday for a one-day strike aimed at putting pressure on their employer amid difficult contract talks. The union representing nearly 1,200 longshore workers at the country’s second biggest port served notice Thursday for a complete work stoppage from 7 a.m. Sunday until Monday morning. The move comes on top of an ongoing strike onRead more
Trudeau says he thinks about how angry messages affect his family
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gestures during a news conference in Vientiane, Laos, on Oct. 11. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a podcast that he thinks about the angry messages some Canadians send his way and what impacts they — and his job overall — will have on his children. Trudeau appeared on an episode of Inside the Village that was released Friday. On top of discussing his children, the prime minister also spoke about what comes next for him and his embattled Liberal Party andRead more
Election denial in Michigan – and the fight to contain it
Sheryl Guy was going to retire from her position as clerk of Antrim County but decided to run again because she is worried about the rise of election denialism. ‘Donald Trump and his people used Antrim County as an example that the election had been stolen,’ she said. ‘I can’t let that happen in my county.’ (Nick Purdon/CBC) A 63-year-old grandmother from northern Michigan might not be what you picture when you think of a great defender of democracy — but the Antrim County clerk says she’s determined to protectRead more
Trump allies make crude, false and racist Harris remarks at New York City rally
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in New York City on Sunday. (Evan Vucci/The Associated Press) Donald Trump took the stage Sunday night at New York’s Madison Square Garden to deliver his campaign’s closing argument with the election nine days away after several of his allies used crude and racist insults toward Vice-President Kamala Harris and other critics of the former president. The Republican nominee began by asking the same questions he’s asked at the start of every recent rally: “Are you better off now thanRead more
UK and Germany sign ‘landmark’ defence treaty
Britain and Germany will sign, what the UK government is calling a “landmark defence agreement” aimed at boosting security, investment and jobs. Under the agreement the German defence company, Rheinmetall will open a new factory in the UK to manufacture barrels for artillery guns – supporting 400 jobs. Both countries will work together to develop a new long range missile, and drones. German maritime surveillance aircraft will also periodically fly patrols of the North Atlantic from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland. Labour promised to build closer military ties with Germany whileRead more
King Charles shouted at by Indigenous Australian senator during royal visit
An Indigenous senator told King Charles III that Australia is not his land as the British royal visited Australia’s parliament on Monday. Sen. Lidia Thorpe was escorted out of a parliamentary reception for the royal couple after shouting that British colonizers have taken Indigenous land and bones. “You committed genocide against our people,” she shouted. “Give us what you stole from us — our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people. You destroyed our land. Give us a treaty. We want a treaty.” No treaty was ever struck between betweenRead more
Israel says top Hezbollah official was killed in Beirut airstrike earlier this month
The Israeli military said Tuesday that a top Hezbollah official who had been widely expected to be the group’s next leader was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut in early October. There was no immediate confirmation from the militant group about the fate of Hashem Safieddine, a powerful cleric who was expected to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, one of the group’s founders. Safieddine was killed in an Israeli airstrike in early October in a strike that also killed 25 other Hezbollah leaders, according to Israel, whose airstrikes in southern Lebanon in recentRead more
Trump accuses UK’s Labour Party of ‘foreign interference’
Donald Trump’s campaign has filed a Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint against the UK’s Labour Party, accusing it of “blatant foreign interference” in the US election in aid of the Harris-Walz campaign. The complaint cites media reports about contact between Labour and the Harris campaign as well as apparent volunteering efforts, arguing that this amounts to illegal “contributions”. The BBC understands that Labour activists campaigning in the US presidential election are doing so in a personal capacity. The Labour Party has not issued an official response. Specifically, the complaint citesRead more
Marine Le Pen hits back in EU funds misuse trial
French politician Marine Le Pen has hit back against charges of illegal party funding by European Parliament deputies from her far-right National Rally (RN) party. Le Pen and more than 20 other senior party figures are accused of hiring assistants who worked on party affairs rather than for the European Parliament which paid them. She told a court in Paris on Monday that parliamentary assistants paid for by the Brussels assembly were naturally involved in politics – because that was what drew them to the job in the first place.Read more
Spacecraft blasts off to hunt alien life on a distant moon
A spacecraft that will hunt for signs of alien life on one of Jupiter’s icy moons has blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Nasa launched the spacecraft at 12:06 local time (16:06 GMT) after hurricane Milton forced the mission to postpone plans last week. Europa Clipper will now travel 1.8 billion miles to reach Europa, a deeply mysterious moon orbiting Jupiter. It will not arrive until 2030 but what it finds could change what we know about life in our solar system. Trapped under the moon’s surface could be aRead more