STABLE SUPPLY. The supply of vegetables remains stable after Typhoon Aghon, Department of Agriculture Assistant Secretary for Operations U-Nichols Manalo says during an ambush interview in Quezon City on Monday (May 27, 2024). He said strict monitoring is being conducted to protect consumers from unscrupulous vendors. (PNA photo by Stephanie Sevillano) MANILA …
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More than 2,000 people were buried alive by a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea last week, the national disaster centre said on Monday, as treacherous terrain and the difficulty of getting aid to the site raises the risk few survivors will be found. United Nations agency previously put death …
Read More »Israeli airstrike kills dozens in Rafah area for displaced people, Gaza health officials say
Palestinian health and civil emergency service officials said at least 35 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike Sunday on the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The Israel Defence Forces said it struck a Hamas compound in Rafah and that it was carried out with “precise ammunition and on the …
Read More »This senator wants Canadian banks to fight climate change
Rosa Galvez has taken on a Herculean task: force Canadian financial institutions to prioritize the fight against climate change. Rosa Galvez says financial sector needs to be more strongly regulated. Rosa Galvez has taken on a Herculean task: force Canadian financial institutions to prioritize the fight against climate change. More …
Read More »Albertans think Danielle Smith is bad on affordability. Here’s why she isn’t paying for it
Poll suggests the premier isn’t getting blamed for housing crisis or higher cost of living, but health care and municipal relations have emerged as liabilities What is driving disapproval of UCP? Health care and city relations, poll shows. EDITOR’S NOTE: CBC News commissioned this public opinion research in April, leading …
Read More »G7 agree on next moves on seized Russian assets
FRANKFURT, Germany — Finance officials from the Group of Seven (G7) rich democracies said they had moved toward agreement on a US proposal to squeeze more money for Ukraine from Russian assets frozen in their countries. But the ministers left a final deal to be worked out ahead of a …
Read More »A new report on poverty challenges both Liberals and Conservatives
The Food Banks Canada report usefully focuses political attention on a segment of the population that badly needs it. That presents an immediate challenge for the Liberal government — but the Conservatives are also challenged to explain exactly how they’d do things differently. The Conservatives are using the report to …
Read More »Premier says sex education group will be banned from giving school presentations
Premier Blaine Higgs says he will ban a Quebec-based sex education group from presenting at schools in New Brunswick after a presentation he believes was “clearly inappropriate.” The premier took to X, formerly Twitter, to express his displeasure with a presentation given at several New Brunswick high schools. “To say …
Read More »‘Language is identity’: First Nation legislator to make history at Ontario legislature
Decades after being punished in a residential school for speaking his own language, Sol Mamakwa will hold the powerful to account at Ontario’s legislature in the very same language past governments tried to bury. NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa to ask question in Anishininiimowin on Tuesday. Decades after being punished in …
Read More »Trains serving BRI marks 90,000th trip
XI’AN, China — A train fully loaded with various products departed from Xi’an, the capital city of northwest China’s Shaanxi province, on Saturday morning, bound for Malaszewicze, Poland, marking a significant milestone as the total number of China-Europe freight train trips has surpassed 90,000. To date, China-Europe freight trains have …
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