Tag Archives: Canada

Saturday, 1 July 2017   Canada will keep troops in Iraq until 2019, at the very minimum, to “advise and assist” in the fight against Daesh. The announcement comes as multiple reports suggest Daesh’s influence in the region is dwindling by the day. Daesh’s top leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was …

Saturday, 1 July 2017 INRS physicists managed to create the first silicon chip that can be used to both store and manipulate high-dimensional qubits – units of quantum information – which may help simplify the architecture of quantum computers, according to a study published in Nature, a top US scientific journal. Qubits act as memory cells …

Friday, 12 May 2017 OTTAWA – David Vigneault, an advisor on security matters to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, will take over as head of Canada’s spy agency next month following the current director’s previously announced retirement, the government said on Thursday. Vigneault is currently assistant secretary to cabinet advising …

Wednesday, 12th April 2017: Families in Vancouver are mourning the loss of 5 South Korean hikers whose bodies have been recovered from the north face of Mount Harvey in Canada. The bodies of Yong Jun Sohn, Chung Ki Soo, Myung Sung Soo, Kim Ran Hee and Sandul Baram have been recovered …

Tuesday, 11 April 2017 :  The United States, Mexico and Canada will make a joint bid to host the 2026 World Cup, top football officials from the three nations announced on Monday. No nation from CONCACAF, the governing body for football in North and Central America and the Caribbean, has …

Friday, 31 March 2017 New details have surfaced in what authorities are now suspecting was an inside job involving the heist of a limited-edition gold coin weighing over 220 pounds from a Berlin museum last week. Previously, officials with the Bode Museum in Berlin observed that high-tech security measures had …

Wednesday, 28 March 2017 :  McMorris, a bronze medallist in slopestyle at the Sochi Olympics, suffered a fractured jaw and left arm, ruptured spleen, a stable pelvic fracture, rib fractures and a collapsed left lung on Saturday and was airlifted to Vancouver General Hospital where he underwent several surgeries. The …

Tuesday, 28 March 2017 A unique solid-gold commemorative coin weighing more than 200 pounds has been stolen from a museum in Berlin, where it was on loan from a private collector. The limited-edition coin, struck in 2007 from extremely pure gold, has a face value of one million Canadian dollars …

Monday, 27 March 2017 :  Canada made history as the first-ever rink to finish a Women’s Curling World Championships undefeated, picking up their first title since 2008 in the process. Led by skip Rachel Homan, the Canadians were a cut above the rest of the competition in Beijing, rounding off …

Wednesday, 22 March 2017 :  West Lothian-born Arfield, 28, represented Scotland at under-19, under-21 and B level. However, he was not selected for the senior squad and won the first of his six Canada caps last year. “I’m happy that I’ve taken this opportunity,” said Arfield, who is in the …