Budget officer finds $1B orphan well liability by 2025; critics claim underestimate
The parliamentary budget officer has found the cost of cleaning up orphaned oil and gas wells in Alberta and Saskatchewan already dwarfs the money collected from industry to pay for it. But critics immediately called Yves Giroux's projected price tag o...
MSC Group, Lufthansa partner in bid for Italy’s ITA Airways
MILAN (AP) — The parent group of MSC Cruises is partnering with Lufthansa in a bid for a majority stake in Italy’s ITA Airways, the company created from the ashes of former Italian flagship airline Alitalia.
No winner yet in second day of Italian vote for president
ROME (AP) — Italian lawmakers failed to agree again Tuesday in a vote selecting Italy's next president, as a consensus on who to support continued to elude party leaders.
Russia adds Navalny and his top allies to list of terrorists
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities have added imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny and some of his top allies to the country's registry of terrorists and extremists, the latest move in a multi-pronged crackdown on opposition supporters, independe...
Parks Canada tells family fighting expropriation to leave N.B. park by end of March
FREDERICTON — Parks Canada is renewing efforts to get family members of the late Jackie Vautour to end their fight to remain within New Brunswick's Kouchibouguac National Park. Vautour staged a 50-year battle against the government's expropriation of t...
WHO chief makes case for 2nd term as Ethiopia criticizes him
GENEVA (AP) — World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus laid out more plans Tuesday to fight the virus as he pitched his case for a new five-year term and faced criticism from his own country — Ethiopia — over
GoFundMe withholding $4.7 million from trucker convoy until plan presented
GoFundMe has frozen access to the more than $4.7 million in funds raised by the trucker convoy now wending its way across the country toward Ottawa in a protest against vaccine mandates. "We require that fundraisers be transparent about the flow
GM to spend nearly $7B on EV, battery plants in Michigan
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — General Motors is making the largest investment in company history in its home state of Michigan, announcing plans to spend nearly $7 billion to convert a factory to make electric pickup trucks and to build a
German far-right names long-shot presidential candidate
BERLIN (AP) — The far-right Alternative for Germany party on Tuesday presented a member of former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union as its long-shot candidate to become the country’s next president, prompting his own party to call f...
Florida senator fights back over nude images stolen from her
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — State Sen. Lauren Book often has told the story about how she was sexually abused by her nanny for six years when she was a child. She channeled the pain into a lifetime of helping other
