Mexico’s Yucatan tourist train sinks pilings into relic-filled limestone caves, activists show
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Activists in Mexico have published photos of steel and cement pilings from a government project that were driven directly through the roofs of sensitive limestone caves on the Yucatan peninsula.
The network of caves, sinkhole lakes and underground rivers along Mexico’s Caribbean coast are both environmentally sensitive and have been found to hold
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had promised that part of his controversial $20 billion tourist train project, known as would run on an elevated causeway supported by pilings to avoid
Delays on Barrie GO line after train crashes into transport truck at Vaughan rail crossing
A driver was able to escape without injuries after a GO train struck a transport truck in Vaughan on Tuesday afternoon.
York police say a northbound train on the Barrie GO line struck a truck at a road level crossing on Langstaff Road east of Keele Street.
A photo sent to CityNews by a passenger on the train shows a truck near the crossing with a badly damaged front end. Police say the driver was not injured.
Metrolinx confirms a train from Union Station on the Barrie line was involved in a collision with a vehicle
Police say a former Haitian vice-consul has been slain near an airport in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A former Haitian vice-consul to the Dominican Republic was gunned down near an airport in northern Haiti, a police official told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Claude Joazard, a doctor and former senatorial candidate, was killed Sunday near the sole international airport in the northern coastal city of Cap-Haitien, said police spokesman Inspector Arold Jean.
Joazard was a former diplomat to the Dominican Republic town of Dajabon, located near the border that the countries share on the island
RCMP have draft response to N.S. mass shooting inquiry, but no deadline to release it
HALIFAX — The head of the Nova Scotia RCMP said Tuesday he’s seen a draft plan on how the Mounties will respond to the inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting that started in Portapique, N.S., but Dennis Daley couldn’t say when it will be released.
The RCMP had announced the plan would be released by the end of last year, but when that deadline came and went, the Mounties issued a statement two weeks ago saying they were still working on the document.
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Federal use of the Emergencies Act was unreasonable, judge rules
A judge has ruled it was unreasonable for the Liberal government to use the Emergencies Act to quell “Freedom Convoy” protests in the national capital and at key border points two years ago.
In a decision released Tuesday, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley said invocation of the act led to the infringement of constitutional rights.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and several other groups and individuals had argued in court that Ottawa ushered in the emergency measures without sound statutory grounds.
The government contended the steps taken to deal with the pan-Canadian
Lily Gladstone, Christopher Nolan, Colman Domingo and many more react to their Oscar nominations
“It’s all so long overdue. It’s a real moment of restoration, placing indigenous talent in these roles, spotlighting their humanity, their their characters, just the way that all of the sisters exist on screen, I think is shattering a lot of stereotypes people have about Indigenous women.” — the first Native American nominated for best actress, for “Killers of the Flower Moon.” In an interview with The Associated Press from the Oklahoma Osage reservation where the events of the film took place.
Rights center says Belarusian authorities have arrested scores of people in latest crackdown
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian authorities on Tuesday arrested several dozen people in raids marking the latest in a relentless , a local human rights center said.
The Viasna center said that at least 64 people were detained across Belarus on charges of “involvement in extremist groups” and “financing extremist activities,” accusations that are routinely used to target dissenters.
Viasna said that some political prisoners who had been released after serving their sentences were among those arrested.
It said that some of those detained had cooperated with a
First Nation-led financing model hits $2B in effort to close infrastructure gap
A First Nation-led financing model has reached $2 billion in loans issued as it works to close the economic and infrastructure gap between member nations and the rest of Canada.
The First Nations Finance Authority is crossing the lending threshold a decade after issuing its first debenture — a type of long-term loan that isn’t backed by collateral.
The not-for-profit FNFA pools resources of member nations into a scale that allows it to offer discounted interest rates to borrowers, similar to what’s accessible to
Elderly man shoots wife, self at Florida assisted living facility, police say
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — An elderly man fatally shot his wife and then himself at an assisted living facility in Florida, police said Tuesday.
Staff at the Addington Place at College Harbor facility found the couple dead in the woman’s room around 10 a.m., the St. Petersburg Police Department said in an email.
The 81-year-old man was visiting his 76-year-old wife when the shooting happened, investigators said. Their identities were not
Murder charges filed against Illinois man accused of killing wife and 3 adult daughters
TINLEY PARK, Ill. (AP) — Murder charges were filed Tuesday against a suburban Chicago man his wife and three adult daughters in what police have described as a domestic-related shooting.
Maher Kassem, 63, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and made his first court appearance Tuesday. Police allege he shot four family members after an argument at their home Sunday morning in Tinley Park, which is about 30 miles (48 kilometers) from Chicago.
Killed in the shooting were Majeda