Month: January 2020

Dove Attia, le producteur de la comédie musicale Le Roi Soleil revient les frasques du chanteur Christophe Maé dans les coulisses du spectacle. A l’époque, l’interprète du frère de Louis XIV, Monsieur, a bien failli se faire couper la tête… Un chanteur capricieux. En 2005, Le jeune Christophe Martichon, 30 ans, est encore inconnu du…

Encore marquée par l’attaque qui a frappé les spectateurs de son concert de Manchester, le 22 mai dernier, Ariana Grande annonce qu’elle s’apprête à revenir dans la ville anglaise pour y organiser un concert en faveur des victimes. Moins d’une semaine s’est écoulée depuis la terrible attaque qui a coûté la vie à 22 personnes…

LONDON — The price of oil surged Friday on concerns that Iran might respond to the killing of its top general by the United States by disrupting global supplies of energy from the Middle East. News that Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, was killed in an air attack at the Baghdad…

Justin Trudeau has a beard. This is important news. The prime minister returned from family vacationing in Costa Rica sporting some salt-and-pepper stubble. And not just stubble, but the actual roots of something that could be called a beard. He’s no Nick Offerman or Santa Claus, but that is, in fact, a beard.  We all…

TORONTO — Elementary teachers in Ontario are planning rotating strikes starting Jan. 20 unless there is significant progress with the government in what has been a difficult round of contract talks. The Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario said Thursday that “if the government refuses to address critical issues” by Jan. 17, its members will start…

WASHINGTON — North American residents of Iranian descent and their advocates were sounding the racial-profiling alarm Monday after scores of them were subjected to intensive questioning and long delays while trying to cross the Canada-U.S. border over the weekend. Len Saunders, an immigration lawyer whose practice in Blaine, Wash., specializes in cross-border issues, said several…

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford should consider Australia’s massive wildfires as he tears down renewable energy projects, Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath charged Thursday.  “We’re all witnessing the very real threat we face from the climate crisis,” Horwath told reporters at Queen’s Park Thursday.  “The devastating bushfires that continue to rage in Australia should be…

WASHINGTON — Two U.S. officials said Thursday it was “highly likely” that an Iranian anti-aircraft missile downed a Ukrainian jetliner late Tuesday, killing all 176 people on board. The crash came just a few hours after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack against Iraqi military bases housing U.S. troops amid a confrontation with Washington over…

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says intelligence from multiple sources indicates that an Iranian missile downed the Ukraine International Airlines flight that crashed near Tehran on Wednesday. He says the strike might have been unintentional. Trudeau was providing an update amid multiple reports earlier Thursday that pointed the finger at Iran for the downing…

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran is calling on Canada and the United States to release information backing their allegations that a Ukrainian jetliner that crashed outside Tehran was brought down by an Iranian missile, killing all 176 people on board. Ali Abedzadeh, the head of the Iran’s national aviation department, denied those allegations Friday in a…