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Netanyahu says Israel hit Iran hard; Iran mulls ‘appropriate response’

27Oct

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Netanyahu says Israel hit Iran hard; Iran mulls ‘appropriate response’

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: AFP / GIL COHEN-MAGEN By Ari Rabinovitch and Adam Makary, Reuters Israel's airstrikes "hit hard" Iran's defences and missile production, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says, as Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says the country is considering its response. With warfare raging in Gaza and Lebanon, direct confrontation between Israel and Iran risks spiralling into a regional conflagration. But a day after the airstrikes, there was no sign they would spark another round of escalation. However, heavy fighting in Lebanon between Israeli forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah, which sharply intensified over recent weeks, continued on Sunday (local time) with an Israeli airstrike killing eight people in a residential block in Sidon, med...

Nova Scotia votes 2024: five key issues for voters

27Oct

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Nova Scotia votes 2024: five key issues for voters

Nova Scotians are set to go to the polls in a provincial election Nov. 26. Here are five key issues that leaders and candidates for the Progressive Conservatives, Liberals and NDP are expected to highlight during the campaign:The Progressive Conservatives were elected in 2021 on a pledge to “fix” the province’s ailing system. Story continues below advertisement The Tories say they have made inroads in recruiting doctors and nurses and in providing more resources for emergency medical care. 2:05 Could Nova Scotia call an early election? Health concerns come into focus in province The Liberals and NDP will highlight...

Previously unseen photos of Prince William with his mother Diana visiting homeless charity released

27Oct

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Previously unseen photos of Prince William with his mother Diana visiting homeless charity released

By Sophie Tanno, CNN This handout photograph released by Kensington Palace on October 25, 2024, shows Britain's Princess Diana (C) with her 11-year-old son William (R), now Britain's Prince William, Prince of Wales during one of his first visits to homelessness charity, The Passage in London, taken on December 14, 1993. - "Prince William: We Can End Homelessness" – a two-part documentary series which follows the first year of The Prince’s Homewards programme will be shown on ITV on Wednesday October, 30 and Thursday, 31 October 2024. Photo: THE PASSAGE / AFP Prince William has opened up about how a powerful childhood experience with his brother and late mother helped shape his work in combating homelessness. In the Prince of Wales' forthcoming documentary, Prince William: We Can End...

Deadlines from Liberal MPs, Bloc leave Trudeau facing another bumpy week – National

27Oct

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Deadlines from Liberal MPs, Bloc leave Trudeau facing another bumpy week – National

Another week, another raft of imminent challenges to Justin Trudeau’s leadership of both the country and the Liberal Party. The Prime Minister, whose presence at the party helm has stirred criticism and calls for his resignation from within his own ranks, is facing two deadlines in the coming days: one from Liberal MPs who want him to resign and another from the Bloc Québécois as they threaten to trigger an early election. 9:13 Jody Wilson-Raybould’s recommendations ‘for the good of the party’ Discontent with Trudeau’s leadership has been mounting for months amid persistently dismal approval ratings and two recent byelection losses in long-tim...

Quick Look: the 3 party leaders vying to be Nova Scotia’s next premier

27Oct

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Quick Look: the 3 party leaders vying to be Nova Scotia’s next premier

Here are the three main political leaders vying to be Nova Scotia’s next premier in November, including two men and one woman. Two of them are taking their party into the election as leaders for the very first time.Before the election was called, the Progressive Conservatives held 34 seats in the 55-seat Nova Scotia legislature, the Liberals held 14 seats, the NDP had six and there was one Independent. Tim Houston, Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia Tim Houston, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia, is seeking a second mandate as premier. Story continues below advertisement Born: April 10, 1970.Early years: Born in Halifax and raised in a military family, he grew up on military bases in Prince Edwar...

The push to criminalize residential school denialism in Canada

27Oct

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The push to criminalize residential school denialism in Canada

As a young child, Dennis Saddleman’s mother always ensured he knew how much she loved him, gave him kisses on his forehead and told him how beautiful he was. That all changed when he was six years old, and those warm words turned ice cold when he was sent to the Kamloops Indian Residential School. The priests and nuns who were tasked with looking after him constantly berated him, beat him, barred him from speaking his language and practising his culture, and sexually assaulted him. 1:36 What needs to be done to confront residential school denialism? “I didn’t know what I was getting into when I got there,” he said in an interview on Parliament...

Weight loss drugs can cause decline in skeletal muscle mass, finds study

27Oct

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Weight loss drugs can cause decline in skeletal muscle mass, finds study

Amid the growing use of weight loss medications, a new study has raised concerns about declining skeletal muscle health caused by the popular drugs. In a recent commentary published in The Lancet journal, researchers from the US and Canada highlighted the critical importance of skeletal muscle mass in the context of medically induced weight loss, particularly with the widespread use of GLP-1 receptor agonists. While the drugs have shown extreme potential in treating obesity -- a precursor for many diseases like diabetes, hypertension, and cancer -- they can also lead to substantial muscle loss as part of the weight loss process, argued researchers from Pennington Biomedical Research Center in the US, Universities of Alberta and McMaster in Canada. They noted that muscle loss -- measured...

Bolivian ex-president Evo Morales says his car was shot at amid rising political tensions | World News

27Oct

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Bolivian ex-president Evo Morales says his car was shot at amid rising political tensions | World News

Bolivian ex-president Evo Morales says his car was shot at amid rising political tensions in the South American country.The politician posted a Facebook video appearing to show him sitting in the passenger seat with at least two bullet holes in the windscreen. In the video, which has not yet been independently verified, the driver appeared injured but was able to continue driving.In a radio interview after the incident, Mr Morales said two vehicles intercepted him on the road and fired upon his car, claiming a bullet passed "centimetres" from his head.It comes at a time of high tensions, with supporters of Mr Morales blocking highways in the centre of the country as police and security forces try to clear them. Bolivia's government recently criticised Mr Morales for "destabilising" the cou...

Tight U.S. election could be decided by Americans in Canada: ex-U.S. envoy – National

27Oct

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Tight U.S. election could be decided by Americans in Canada: ex-U.S. envoy – National

The razor-thin U.S. presidential race between U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump could be decided by American voters living abroad in countries like Canada, a former envoy says. Bruce Heyman, a Democrat who served as U.S. ambassador to Canada under the Obama administration, says a large number of voters from vital swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin that could decide the Nov. 5 election live just across the border in Canada.The latest FiveThirtyEight polling averages in those states and others show Harris and Trump are separated by a fraction of a percentage point, making every vote consequential.“I’m just appealing, please, Americans in Canada, please, if you have been registered to vote (and have received an absentee ballot), you need t...

We need to settle this debate: Is it OK to call records ‘vinyls’? – National

27Oct

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Entertainment, Movies

We need to settle this debate: Is it OK to call records ‘vinyls’? – National

I try not to be judgmental, but I have a thing for correct nomenclature and proper pronunciations. I’ll let slide anyone who pronounces the “L” in “calm,” and I’ll give a little bit of slack to anyone who initially struggles with “quinoa.” But if you insist that “Uber” (as in “You’ve had too much to drink. Let me call you an Uber”) is pronounced “Yuber,” that’s when the red mist descends. I also get a little crazy when someone pronounces David Bowie’s last name like it’s the front of a boat. Despite being spelled “Gahan,” the name of the lead singer of Depeche Mode wants you to know that it’s “Dave GAHN.” And the guy out front of Queens of the Stone Age? Contrary to anything you’ve heard, it’s Josh HOMmy. (Trust me. I’ve talked to the man.)I get even more exorcised when someone insists on ...