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A two-month break from the federal GST takes effect today. The federal government announced the plan to temporarily waive the five per cent goods and services tax in a bid to help ease affordability concerns during the holiday season. Provinces with a harmonized provincial and federal sales tax will see the full HST waived. The […]
The withdrawals by one of President Bashar al-Assad’s key backers come amid a resurgent rebel offensive. Source link
The Pikne exercises will last two weeks and involve servicemen from the US, Estonia, Latvia, France and the UK NATO countries are set to kick off major war games in northeast Estonia near the border with Russia on Monday, focusing on the rapid deployment of the bloc’s forces and increasing their interoperability. Some 2,000 troops […]
Russia on Wednesday put a former Moscow councilor, who became one of the first critics of the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine to be jailed, back on trial for criticizing the military offensive while in prison. Alexei Gorinov was the first known Russian to be jailed under new censorship laws in 2022 that accompanied Moscow’s invasion. […]
And Jack Smith moved to drop Trump’s election subversion indictment in Washington as well as the classified documents case in Florida. Source link
The genome has space for only a small fraction of the information needed to control complex behaviors. So then how, for example, does a newborn sea turtle instinctually know to follow the moonlight? Cold Spring Harbor neuroscientists have devised a potential explanation for this age-old paradox. Their ideas should lead to faster, more evolved forms […]
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — “It’s a good day to travel,” said Noa Weiswasser from Sonoma, California. Some passengers are packed and ready to embark on their journey to their Thanksgiving destination. AAA projects 79.9 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home over the holiday travel period which is up 1.7 million people compared […]
Fresh from announcing its new chief executive, graphite-focused junior Evolution Energy said it has begun early works at its flagship Chilalo project in Tanzania. Source link
One of the most reliable meteor showers to light up our night sky each year begins tonight. The annual Geminid meteor shower runs from Nov. 19 through Dec. 24, with the peak coming overnight on Dec. 13-14, according to the American Meteor Society. During the peak, over 100 Geminid meteors can be seen per hour […]
Article content A coroner’s inquest is underway into the 2016 death of Abdirahman Abdi. Abdi, 38, died on July 25, 2016, one day after being arrested by Ottawa Police Service officers. An inquest into his death is mandatory under the Coroners Act, to examine the circumstances surrounding his death. The jury may make recommendations aimed […]