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Single-use plastics have become a scourge on the planet, and the amount of plastic in the ocean could outweigh the amount of fish by 2050, the federal government says. Canadians generate about 3.25 million tonnes of plastic waste, or about 140,000 garbage trucks’ worth, each year, according to Greenpeace Canada. The federal government has yet […]

Australia’s conservative prime minister took the uncharacteristic step of advocating looser drug laws on Wednesday, backing greater imports of narcotic kava root in a symbolic gesture to court Pacific Island neighbours. On a visit to Vanuatu Scott Morrison said he will allow imports of the intoxicating drink kava, popular with locals, as it seeks to forge closer […]

QUEBEC — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered a cautiously optimistic assessment of free trade talks between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico on Thursday, even as White House officials appeared to dampen expectations for a breakthrough in Peru next week. Trudeau said negotiations toward a new North American Free Trade Agreement appeared to be making good […]

Australia’s minister for women is set to retire from politics, a major blow for the embattled minority government amid accusations it has a problem with female representation ahead of crucial national elections. Cabinet minister Kelly O’Dwyer – the latest in a string of female politicians to quit the ruling Liberal-National coalition – said on Saturday […]

Click:how to shop on xianyu VICTORIA — A Nova Scotia man banned from Victoria’s stately Fairmont Empress hotel is welcome back after apologizing for an incident more than 17 years ago in which seagulls hungry for pepperoni trashed his room in a frenzy. Nick Burchill of Dartmouth, N.S., says in a letter to the hotel […]

Brexit will not harm the information-sharing relationship between Britain and America’s spy agencies, a leading US intelligence official has told The Telegraph.  Anthony Vassalo, a senior figure at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence – the top body in US intelligence – said he expected no “material change” after the UK leaves the […]

A translator for the German armed forces was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of spying for Iran. In what could become a serious scandal for the German military, the arrested man is suspected of passing highly sensitive information to Iranian intelligence over a number of years. The 50-year-old suspect, named only as Abdul-Hamid S, is […]

US President Donald Trump laid out a White House feast fit for a government shutdown on Monday: silver platters heaped high with McDonald’s quarter pounders and the red-and-white burger wrappers of Wendy’s. White House chefs normally would serve much fancier fare underneath the stern gaze of the portrait of Abraham Lincoln in the State Dining Room. […]

OTTAWA — Canadians have amassed a $2-trillion mountain of household debt that’s casting a big shadow over the timing of the Bank of Canada’s next interest rate hike, governor Stephen Poloz said in a speech Tuesday in Yellowknife. To Poloz, the “sheer size” of debt burden also means its associated risks to endure for a […]

Authorities in Louisiana said they are searching for an "armed and dangerous" 21-year-old accused of killing his parents and three others in two separate but related shootings Saturday. Authorities say Dakota Theriot first shot and killed three people – the woman believed to be his girlfriend, her brother and father – in Livingston Parish before taking her […]