Communities report high demand for pilot offering permanent residency for rural jobs
OTTAWA — A pilot immigration program to help rural communities find skilled workers for hard-to-fill jobs saw 800 people receive permanent residency in the first two months of this year — and hundreds of applications are streaming in for a limited number of available spaces.
The Rural Community Immigration Pilot, or RCIP, began in 2025. It allows 14 small communities across Canada to recommend people with skills and jobs in selected sectors for permanent residency.
Each community can select up to 25 fields as
Israeli military strikes Beirut suburbs in the lead-up to anticipated US-Iran deal
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said it launched strikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut on Sunday, potentially complicating efforts to finalize a deal to end the U.S.-Iran war. Smoke rose over the Lebanese capital, and the Civil Defense said it retrieved three bodies and six wounded people from the rubble.
Iran threatened a military response.
The deal in its current form is a deep disappointment to Israel’s government, which has been sidelined in negotiations led by Pakistan and others. The last time Israel
Ukrainian drone strikes kill 1 and spark fire at oil facility in Russia
A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person in Russia’s southwestern Oryol region, local officials said Sunday, while a separate strike hit an oil facility as part of Kyiv’s campaign of strikes on military and energy targets deep inside Russia.
Oryol regional Gov. Andrei Klychkov said Sunday that one person died and nine were wounded when a Ukrainian drone struck a residential building overnight in the regional capital, also called Oryol.
Local authorities in Russia’s Yaroslavl region, around 700 kilometers (440 miles)
Britain detains sanctioned oil tanker believed to be linked to Russia’s shadow fleet
LONDON (AP) — Armed British forces boarded and detained a sanctioned tanker Sunday that is suspected of being part of the Russian “shadow fleet,” shipping oil in violation of international sanctions over Moscow’s war on Ukraine , British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Sunday.
Royal Marine commandos rappelled from helicopters onto the vessel, the Smyrtos, in the English Channel, in what the country’s Defense Ministry called “the first U.K.-led operation of its kind.”
The vessel will be held and
Carney visiting family’s ancestral home in County Mayo today
AGHAGOWER — The people of County Mayo, found on the west coast of Ireland, greeted Prime Minister Mark Carney with open arms on Sunday.
Businesses hung Canadian flags outside their buildings, and groups of people held up signs on the side of the road as Carney made his way into town from the airport.
Some restaurants even invented names for their food in honour of his visit, like “Chili Con Carney” and “Mark’s Maple Sundae.”
“We’re so proud, that’s one of
Mayhem mars euphoria as New York City celebrates the Knicks’ first championship in 53 years
NEW YORK (AP) — It was bedlam on Broadway as the New York Knicks won their first NBA championship in 53 years on Saturday night, with exuberant celebrations marred by mayhem and violence, including a shooting in Times Square.
Outside Madison Square Garden, a crowd watching on a big screen roared as the Knicks rallied from a 16-point deficit to beat the Spurs in San Antonio in Game 5 of the NBA Finals.
Soon after, tens of thousands of people filled the streets and the rowdiest among them
The world wants more high-protein products, but there’s not enough whey to go around
Global consumers want more protein in every bite, but the dairy industry is struggling to give it to them.
Athletes and older adults have long used smoothies and shakes blended with whey protein concentrate – a powdered byproduct of cheese-making – to build or maintain muscle. More recently, food companies have sprinkled it into everything from breakfast cereals, Pop-Tarts and potato chips to bagels, tortillas and Starbucks drinks to meet growing consumer demand .
The average U.S. supermarket now has 38,708 products
Knicks defeat Spurs to win first NBA championship in 53 years
SAN ANTONIO — Jalen Brunson and the Comeback Knicks did it again. And now they’re the Champion Knicks.
For the first time in 53 years, New York rules the NBA. Brunson scored 45 points, including 13 straight for New York in the fourth quarter, and the Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Saturday night.
The Knicks won the series 4-1, rallying from double-digit deficits in all four of those victories
Trump and other G7 leaders are meeting without China. Is that a mistake?
PARIS (AP) — From the outset, China wasn’t included when major powers gathered in 1975 at a chateau outside Paris to fix the slumping global economy, the first of what have become annual summits by the G7 club of wealthy nations to forward their interests.
No surprise there. Imagining Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong brainstorming with U.S. President Gerald Ford and other leaders would have been unthinkable.
China was in turmoil, nowhere close to becoming the economic giant it is now. Mao
Man in his 50s stabbed in East York, police say
A man in his 50s was allegedly stabbed in East York early Saturday evening, according to Toronto police.
Emergency crews were called to the area of Victoria Park and Danforth Avenues at approximately 7:37 p.m. for reports of a stabbing.
When officers arrived, they located a victim suffering from stab wounds. He was transported to a hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.
Police say the suspects were known to each other and that the stabbing was targeted. The circumstances leading