Month: March 2022

Police: 12-Year-Old Killed by Younger Brother Who Found Gun

ST. LOUIS—A 10-year-old boy fatally shot his 12-year-old brother as the two played with a gun they found inside a St. Louis home, police said. The shooting happened Tuesday night in a north St. Louis neighborhood, KMOV-TV reported. Police said the boys were with a parent who was getting a haircut in the home when…


Ontario Police Officer Faces Disciplinary Charges for Posting Video Praising Freedom Convoy

An Ontario police officer is facing disciplinary charges for recording a video while in uniform in which she voiced support for the truckers’ Freedom Convoy protest earlier this year. Constable Erin Howard of the Durham Regional Police is charged with two counts each of discreditable conduct, insubordination, and breach of confidence under the Police Service…


Best Practices to Make a Successful Career Change in a Tech-Driven World

Anchoring yourself to a secure job that you can depend on for the rest of your professional life used to be a popular option. While times have changed — that doesn’t mean that people are too keen on making any radical career changes nowadays. During the COVID-19 crisis, people will do whatever it takes to…


Deutsche Bank: Global Subzero Debt Falls to Lowest Level Since December 2015

Global debt at negative yields plummeted below $3 trillion for the first time since December 2015, according to an analysis by Deutsche Bank. With more central banks tightening monetary policy and unveiling efforts to raise interest rates to combat inflation, the share of subzero debt as a percentage of total outstanding bonds cratered in the…


Social Conservative Groups Mobilize to Impact Tory Leadership Race

As the Conservative Party leadership race takes shape, social conservative groups are mobilizing to rally like-minded Canadians to buy memberships and to help to promote conservative social and economic policies such as those around family, conscience, individual rights and responsibilities, and fiscal accountability. Abortion and assisted suicide are among the issues of conscience that concern…


Cooking for Mum, Coming Full Circle: How My Mother’s Dementia Pushed Me to Learn to Cook the Foods of My Heritage

My beautiful 91-year-old mother stood in the kitchen staring at the onion in her hand, not knowing what to do with it. She was a few years into living with dementia and had recently started divesting all she wouldn’t need in the next life. Reading, writing, knitting, her favorite TV programs, conversations with friends—all had…


Teen Was Turned Away From Two Rides Due to Size Before Fatal Fall: Family

Missouri teen Tyre Sampson was told he couldn’t enter two rides at a Florida amusement park last week before he fell to his death from a free-fall ride, according to family members. Cousin Shay Johnson told Spectrum News that Sampson, 14, tried to ride two attractions at the ICON Park in Orlando earlier this month….


Teen Was Turned Away From Two Rides Due Size Before Fatal Fall: Family

Missouri teen Tyre Sampson was told he couldn’t enter two rides at a Florida amusement park last week before he fell to his death from a free-fall ride, according to family members. Cousin Shay Johnson told Spectrum News that Sampson, 14, tried to ride two attractions at the ICON Park in Orlando earlier this month….


Clinton Campaign, DNC Agree to Pay Fines for Payments of Steele Dossier

Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) likely violated federal law by not accurately describing payments made to a law firm that funneled the money to ex-British spy Christopher Steele, federal officials have ruled. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) determined there was probable cause to believe that the Clinton campaign and its treasurer, Elizabeth Jones, and the…


America’s Rare-Earth Elements Conundrum

Commentary The United States is vastly behind the times when it comes to rare-earth elements, and its reluctance to embrace the mining and processing of rare earths has created quite the conundrum. What is rare earth? Often called rare earths, rare-earth minerals, rare-earth metals, and rare-earth elements are the same. The group contains 17 chemical…