Browning West will offer board nominees at Gildan AGM instead of special meeting
MONTREAL — A U.S. investor looking to replace a majority of the board of directors at Gildan Activewear Inc. says it will offer its slate of candidates for election at the company’s annual meeting instead of a separate shareholder gathering.
Browning West had initially sought a special meeting of shareholders to replace eight members of the board and reinstate founder Glenn Chamandy as Gildan’s chief executive, but now says it will seek to make the changes at the annual meeting.
It says running a slate of candidates at the
Lawyer Graham’s personal funds help in gubernatorial bid against Lt. Gov. Robinson in North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson remained the top fundraiser in the GOP primary campaign for North Carolina governor entering 2024, but a recent rival has used his own personal fortune to compete with him monetarily.
said it raised close to $3.4 million for the second half of 2023, according to campaign finance reports due late last week at the State Board of Elections. Bill Graham, a Salisbury trial lawyer who announced his bid for
James Biden agrees to a private interview with House Republicans investigating the president
WASHINGTON (AP) — will appear before House Republicans for a private interview next month as lawmakers seek to regain some momentum in their monthslong into his brother, President Joe Biden.
announced on Wednesday that the Democratic president’s younger sibling will come to Capitol Hill on Feb. 21. The date was set after months of negotiations between the sides.
“We look forward to his interview,” the committee posted on X, the website formerly known as Twitter.
James Biden’s interview will take place just days
A controversial theory linking climate change to Arctic cold snaps, explained
The capricious start to the winter season has already seen dramatic temperature swings across much of Canada, with energy grid-disrupting cold snaps giving way to an ice-thawing warm spell.
Scientists agree on how climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, is altering winter globally – the season is getting warmer and shorter, studies suggest the snowpack is thinning out earlier across large parts of Southern Canada, and the Far North is warming faster than the rest of the world.
Cold snaps, like the one felt across
Flood evacuation alerts expand in Pemberton, B.C., with more rain in forecast
PEMBERTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — Dusty McKinnon says driving through floodwaters in Pemberton, B.C., reminded him of fording rivers in Costa Rica, as water surged over the hood of his truck.
A weather system with unseasonal warmth has melted snow in the mountains and brought drenching rain to the community 150 kilometres north of Vancouver.
It’s part of a series of atmospheric rivers — moisture-laden streams of warm Pacific air — that have been deluging the province’s South Coast since the weekend
Fundraising scandal: Quebec’s CAQ says ready to end donations to political parties
QUEBEC — The Coalition Avenir Québec says it’s prepared to end donations to political parties, after several CAQ members were accused of soliciting $100 donations from mayors hoping to meet with ministers.
Jean-François Roberge, the minister responsible for democratic institutions, raised that possibility on Wednesday amid strong criticism from opposition parties, which allege the governing party is monetizing access to its members.
The Canadian Press reported earlier this week that almost half of Quebec’s mayors have contributed to the governing party
Best for world if Netanyahu leaves office ‘sooner rather than later’: Liberal MP
OTTAWA — A Liberal member of Parliament says it would be in the best interests of the Middle East and the world if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves office.
Winnipeg MP Ben Carr says he has major concerns about the Israeli government and he hopes Netanyahu will be, in his words, “gone sooner rather than later.”
Carr, who is Jewish, says he does not support politicians on the far right of the spectrum in Israel who display maps of Gaza with Israeli flags.
He made the comments following a conference
German domestic spy agency has its former head, now a hard-right politician, under scrutiny
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has put its former head, who has become a hard-right politician since being removed from the job several years ago, under scrutiny.
Hans-Georg Maassen posted a letter from the BfV agency to his lawyer on his website Wednesday after public broadcaster ARD and media outlet t-online reported that the authority he led from 2012 to 2018 now has him in its files on right-wing extremism.
The letter, dated Jan.
Wisconsin governor signs legislative package aimed at expanding access to dental care
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed a package of bipartisan legislation aimed at expanding access to dental care and addressing dental workforce shortages across the state into law Wednesday.
U.S. Health Resources Administration found shortages of dental care in 160 areas of Wisconsin, defined as geographic areas, facilities or populations experiencing a shortage of care providers.
The package Evers signed includes five bills, including one that authorizes licenses for dental therapists who practice in areas experiencing shortages in care. Dental therapists
Judge rejects school system’s request to toss out long-running sex-assault lawsuit
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a request by Virginia’s largest school system to toss out a lawsuit accusing it of indifference to a middle school student’s claims of sexual abuse and harassment.
The Fairfax County School Board filed a motion in November saying it had uncovered evidence that the former middle schooler had fabricated allegations that she was raped and sexually abused by classmates inside and outside of the school.
In a recently unsealed order, however, U.S. District Court Judge