Month: September 2021

Essar Oil in Talks to Extend January UK VAT Payment Deadline

Reuters—Essar Oil UK, the operator of Britain’s Stanlow oil refinery, is in talks with UK authorities over extending a January deadline to repay hundreds of millions of pounds in deferred taxes, the company said on Sunday. Essar Oil said it still needed to pay £223 million ($305 million) to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) by…


Falun Gong Practitioners Gather Outside UN Building to Protest Against the CCP’s Crimes

NEW YORK—As world authorities gathered in Manhattan to participate in the 76th session of the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly at its headquarters this week, a group of Falun Gong practitioners quietly meditated and held banners raising awareness about their persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is…


UK Says It Has Evidence of Ships Breaching North Korea Weapons Sanctions

The British navy said on Sunday that “multiple ships of various nationalities” have broken U.N. sanctions targeting North Korea’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and ballistic missile programmes. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said its Type 23 Royal Navy frigate HMS Richmond—which was detached from the Carrier Strike Group 21 (CSG21) to take part in U.N. sanctions enforcement operations…


DHS Secretary: As Many as 12,000 Illegal Haitian Immigrants Released Into the US in Recent Days

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday that a significant number of Haitian illegal immigrants who had amassed along the U.S.-Mexico border last week are being released into the United States. About 12,400 out of 17,000 Haitians are having their cases heard by immigration courts, Mayorkas said, adding that about 5,000 are being processed…


Couple With 11 Kids Homeschool Every Child on Their Mini Farm, Call Them a ‘Gift From God’

A couple with a mini farm in New Mexico has welcomed 11 biological children in just 10 years. They homeschool every child, are fast running out of space in their 15-seater transit van, and are expecting their 12th child in March 2022. Yet Courtney and Chris Rogers, for whom their faith in God is central,…


Hong Kong Tiananmen Massacre Vigil Group Disbands After Leaders Arrested

The group behind the annual Tiananmen Massacre vigil in Hong Kong officially announced its dissolution on Saturday, after 32 years since its establishment when Beijing cracked down on student-led protests in 1989. The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China voted to disband on Sept. 25, after local police arrested five…


Fishers, Experts Await Details on Ottawa’s Latest Plan to Save Pacific Salmon

VANCOUVER—As a teenager, Murray Ned was accustomed to fishing for salmon three days a week all year round on the Fraser River in southwestern British Columbia. Three decades later, the longtime Sumas First Nation councillor and member of the joint U.S.−Canadian Pacific Salmon Commission said he expects salmon fisheries on the river will have opened…


CCP Is Carrying out ‘Cold Genocide’ Against Falun Gong, Professor Says

The atrocities committed by the Chinese regime in its decades-long persecution against Falun Gong practitioners amount to a “cold genocide,” a Canadian professor said. Maria Cheung, associate dean at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba, spoke at the fifth session of the World Summit on Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting…


Denied Cross-Border Shoppers, Some U.S. Companies Opt to Export to Canada Instead

WASHINGTON—In the before times, Katie McCarron could count on her best Canadian customers to make the trip to her store in Portland, Oregon, to stock up on their favourite high−quality, human−grade pet food. COVID−19 had other plans. Soon enough, though, so did Portland Pet Food Co. “Some of them would just be shopping in Portland,…


10 Things You Should Declutter Every Time You Move

The moving process certainly has a downside—namely, the physical and financial burden of having to pack up and transport all of your stuff. The upside is that it presents the perfect opportunity to reassess your belongings and break free of what no longer suits you or the life you’re looking to create. Whether you’re making…