O ministro da Justiça de Israel, Yariv Levin, disse hoje que o Governo não tenciona parar “nem um minuto” a tramitação da controversa reforma judicial, questionada por algumas das principais autoridades do país, incluindo o Presidente, Isaac Herzog. Numa entrevista televisiva, Yariv Levin criticou os que procuram “colocar paus nas rodas”, salientando que reformas como a que está em causa são “fundamentais”. E disse que o Governo está disposto a introduzir mudanças, mas lamentou que não haja “um único deputado responsável” na oposição com quem se possa falar. A reformaRead more

38 teams from 12 remote communities meeting in Dryden, Ont., this year The Lil Bands hockey tournament of 20 years ago would have been unrecognizable to anyone entering the Dryden and Eagle Lake arenas this week. Thirty-eight First Nations youth hockey teams from across northern Ontario — and one from Manitoba — are in Dryden for this year’s tournament, which began Tuesday and runs through Sunday. And the players, to be sure, have been having a blast. Several told CBC News they’re enjoying the games themselves, along with the off-the-ice events Lil Bands offers. Beth Gagnon wasRead more

Kinuk travels almost 200 km for treatment by team of Quebec veterinarians Rolling around and lying lazily in the snow of his enclosure at the Quebec City Aquarium, four-year-old Kinuk seems to have recovered from his big trip to the vet in December. He still shows scars from the medical procedures — notably his shaved stomach and patches on his paws and head where his black skin shows. Two weeks prior to that journey, staff had noticed a change in Kinuk’s behaviour and a few tremors. “At the beginning weRead more

‘Pipes are breaking all over the city,’ says Halifax fire official Gavin Hankin of Halifax Plumbing and Heating wasn’t looking forward to Sunday. “[Sunday] is going to be catastrophic because these [water] lines that have frozen, you know, they’re likely to split and then leak and then flood,” he said late Saturday afternoon. Hankin was on call and said he received around 100 calls for service to deal with frozen pipes that happened because of the extreme cold that gripped the province. Temperatures dipped as low as –28 C inRead more

Quebec passed similar bill in December removing allegiance requirement for MNAs Town council in Prescott, Ont., is set to consider a motion calling on the Ontario government to follow Quebec’s lead by scrapping a requirement that elected officials swear an oath of allegiance to King Charles III. The motion is being brought forward by Coun. Lee McConnell, and if it receives a seconder, it will be discussed by council on Feb. 27. If passed, council in the town roughly 90 kilometres south of Ottawa would then call on Minister of Municipal Affairs and HousingRead more

City data shows 99 per cent of warming centre spaces occupied on Friday during extreme cold warning Councillors in Toronto are set to consider keeping warming centres open 24-7 for the rest of the winter amid growing calls for homelessness to be declared a public health crisis in the city. Most of Ontario was under extreme cold warnings late last week, with frigid temperatures presenting greater risks for those without proper shelter. Calls to keep warming centres open around the clock in Toronto have been growing, with community workers andRead more

Jury deliberated whether tweet artificially inflated automaker’s share price A U.S. jury has cleared Elon Musk of wrongdoing for 2018 tweets in which he declared he had financing to take Tesla private. The nine jurors found the Tesla Inc. CEO his company were not liable for misleading investors when he tweeted in 2018 that he had lined up funding to take the electric car company private. Plaintiffs had claimed billions in damages and the decision also had been seen as important for Musk himself, who has aggressively defended his ability toRead more

Magistrate says offence was at low end of seriousness for common assault, was not premeditated Nick Kyrgios had suffered severe depression, suicidal ideation and insomnia in the past, a psychologist told a court on Friday when the Australian tennis star pleaded guilty to pushing a former girlfriend to the ground two years ago. The 2022 Wimbledon runner-up pleaded guilty in the Australian Capital Territory Magistrates Court to assaulting Chiara Passari during an argument in his hometown of Canberra in January 2021. Magistrate Jane Campbell didn’t record a conviction against KyrgiosRead more

Spanish designer spent most of his life in France and rose to prominence in the 1960s Paco Rabanne, the Spanish-born pace-setting designer known for perfumes sold worldwide and his metallic, space-age fashions, has died, the group that owns his fashion house announced on its website Friday. “The House of Paco Rabanne wishes to honour our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88. Among the most seminal fashion figures of the 20th century, his legacy will remain,” the statement from Puig said. Le Telegramme newspaperRead more

Soundtracks for Assassin’s Creed and Call of Duty titles among the nominees Long relegated to the margins, video game score soundtracks are finally getting recognized with their own category at this year’s Grammy Awards. Five nominees will compete at Sunday’s show, out of the 70 original scores submitted for the category’s maiden year. The nominees are composers Austin Wintory for Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Stephanie Economou for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok, Bear McCreary for Call of Duty: Vanguard, Richard Jacques for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Christopher Tin for Old World. The success of video game music coincides with the overall growthRead more