Canada

The men dropped to one knee on the side of a dirty mountain road, their breath frosting into tiny, pulsing clouds as they focused a stare toward the objective. From here the twin peaks belied a peaceful scene of deep green slopes and gentle curving crests that melded with countless others in the region. Any […]

On Thursday, May 25, 2017 the United Kingdom announced that they will cease sharing intelligence information as a result of the latest leak by the United States in the investigation into the Manchester bombing incident on Monday, May 22nd. Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, stated that investigation has been “compromised by the leaks and we can’t […]

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signed an agreement recognizing the landmark Paris climate accord at a meeting of Arctic nations in Alaska on Thursday, but said President Donald Trump was not rushing to decide whether to leave or weaken U.S. commitments to the pact. Trump’s efforts to dilute U.S. climate policies have made the […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin is beefing up his military forces in the Arctic on a scale that hasn’t been seen since the days of the USSR and the Cold War. He’s reopening closed bases and opening new ones in a bid to control the cold but natural resource-rich region One such base holds the 80th […]

New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English was flying to the mountainous resort city of Queenstown on Tuesday to meet intelligence officials from the “Five Eyes” network, which includes the U.S. FBI, CIA and National Security Agency. The meetings, designed to facilitate intelligence sharing between the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, are […]

After months of increasing U.S. forces throughout Europe’s Eastern borders in an effort to curb Russian aggression in the region, a new operation was announced on Monday that will see a U.S. led battalion of more than 1,100 soldiers deployed to Poland specifically as a response force aimed at Russian antagonism. “This is a mission, […]

On June 23rd, 1985, a Boeing 747 took off from the Montréal-Mirabel International Airport in Quebec, Canada en route to New Delhi, India by way of London.  It reached Irish airspace before a bomb that had been snuck onto the plane detonated, ripping the commercial airliner from the sky and claiming the lives of 329 […]

QUEBEC CITY — Canadian authorities on Monday charged a 27-year-old university student known for his far-right sympathies with six counts of first-degree murder in a mass shooting the day before at a local mosque. Alexandre Bissonnette, described by neighbors and acquaintances as a socially awkward introvert who had recently adopted virulent political views, was also […]

Police confirmed a shooting occurred at a mosque in Quebec, Canada (Centre Culturel Islamique de Quebec). During an interview, the Director of the Islamic Center stated that at least five people were killed in the shooting. 40 people were believed to be in the mosque during evening prayers. Radio Canada reported two gunmen have been arrested. A third gunman may have […]

With a winter apocalypse upon us here in the lower Midwest, where the temperature has plummeted precipitously to the teens and the snow is piled high enough to bury an overly tall mushroom (a “snowfusion” of over three whole inches!), one’s mind begins to wander toward how to survive such an onslaught of nature. Worse […]

A diver hunting sea cucumbers may have found the so-called “missing nuke” jettisoned by a US bomber in 1950. Canadian coastal defense forces will investigate water around Prince Rupert, in British Columbia, after diver Sean Smyrichinsky found a mysterious object on a recent trip, officials told CNN. “I came out from the dive and I […]

Two high schools in Abbotsford, Canada were on lockdown today at 2:30 p.m. (local time) after two people were reportedly stabbed. One female student has been reported as having succombed to her injuries, the extent of the injuries to the other student is unknown at this time, but at least one person had to be flown to the nearest medical facility. […]