VICTORIA – When a woman in Victoria got a call from her daughter’s cellphone and heard terrified screams, she immediately dialled 911.
ECB nod allows Ireland to shut down toxic bank, easing debt pressures
After a dramatic night in the Irish parliament that ended with the shutdown of a bankrupt Irish bank, the European Central Bank (ECB) has signed off on allowing Ireland to restructure some of its debt.
Tasered 11-year-old boy failed by B.C. child welfare system: watchdog
VICTORIA – Children’s watchdog Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond says British Columbia’s child welfare system failed an 11-year-old Prince George boy who was zapped by an RCMP Taser almost two years ago.
Iran: Sanctions make nuclear talks with US futile
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- American proposals for direct talks with Iran are pointless while Washington is "holding a gun" to the country through s anctions, Iran's supreme leader said Thursday, quashing a possible breakthrough in contacts with the West over the nuclear standoff. Ontario markets regulator names four new board members
TORONTO (Reuters) – The Ontario Securities Commission named four new board members on Thursday, expanding its team to 16, the maximum allowed, as it mulls changes to the province’s regulatory framework. The four are Deloitte’s Catherine Bateman, lawyer Alan Lenczer, Deborah Leckman and AnneMarie Ryan, both investment executives. They will serve two-year terms at the commission, which regulates capital markets in Ontario, the heart of Canada’s financial industry. …
Football player's former girlfriend tells assault trial he choked her
CALGARY – The former girlfriend of a one-time Calgary Stampeders football player says he tried to choke and smother her when she came home and found him in her bed.
Investigation shows US gov't approval of Boeing 787's batteries should be reconsidered
WASHINGTON – The U.S. government should reassess its safety approval of the Boeing 787 lithium ion batteries, the nation’s top accident investigator said Thursday.
Baird heads to Washington to become first foreign minister to meet with Kerry
WASHINGTON – John Baird will be the first foreign minister to sit down with America’s newest secretary of state on Friday when he meets with John Kerry at the State Department to discuss an array of bilateral and international issues.
Band members say they never saw Manitoba girl who would be beaten to death
WINNIPEG – An inquiry into the death of a young Manitoba girl is hearing from people on the Fisher River reserve who say they never saw her.
Controversial senator Patrick Brazeau kicked out of Conservative caucus
OTTAWA – A staff member for Patrick Brazeau says the controversial and outspoken senator has been removed from the Conservative caucus.
Start of EU budget summit delayed as stand-off emerges
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Officials delayed the start of a summit to negotiate the European Union’s next long-term budget on Thursday, with stark differences emerging between key countries and Ireland’s prime minister still on his way to the venue. In a message sent on Twitter, the European Council, which organizes summits of EU heads of state and government, said the start of the meeting had been put back until 2030 (1930 GMT). It was originally scheduled to start at 1500. …
President's son leads Chadians against Islamists in Mali
KIDAL, Mali (Reuters) – Around 1,000 troops from Chad led by the president’s son advanced towards the mountains of northeast Mali on Thursday to join French search-and-destroy operations hunting Islamist jihadists. A column of 100 Chadian armored vehicles, jeeps and supply trucks rolled out of Kidal, the Saharan town 1,200 km (750 miles) northeast of the capital Bamako. From Kidal, French and Chadian forces backed by French warplanes are striking against Islamist rebel hideouts in the Adrar des Ifoghas mountain range straddling the border with Algeria. …
Peugeot to report multi-billion euro writedown-sources
LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) – French car maker PSA Peugeot Citroen is set to announce a multi-billion euro writedown on its non-performing assets, two people familiar w ith the situation said. Peugeot has net tangible assets worth 14 billion euros ($18.75 billion), according to Thomson Reuters data, and is expected to write down a significant part of it on Thursday, the people said. Peugeot declined to comment. Traders said the company had called a surprise conference call for analysts on Thursday night. … Israel's Netanyahu tackles tricky coalition-building
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on T hursday with Yair Lapid, the surprise runner-up in an election last month, to try to draw him into a broad government that could bridge Israel's religious divide. In the January 22 ballot, centrist candidate Lapid's rallying cry, "equal sharing of the burden", touched a nerve among voters angered by military exemptions granted to ultra-Orthodox students and state stipends for large, religious families. … South Africa outraged at gang rape of teenager
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- In a country where one in four women is raped and where months-old babies and 94-year-old grandmothers are sexually assaulted, citizens are demanding action after a teenager was gang-raped, sliced open from her stomach to her genitals, and left for dead on a construction site last week.
New mission for Knights of Malta: rescue Europe's poor
They trace their origins back to the warrior monks who tended to fallen soldiers of the Crusades, but have since become a humanitarian organization running hospitals, clinics, and relief operations in 120 countries around the world.
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