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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 9, 2025 5:52 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Archbishop of Quebec says he expects Pope Leo will continue to work on reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. Cardinal Gerald Lacroix called the word “reconciliation” very important for any pastor.He shared his thoughts on Friday on the election of the first U.S.-born pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost.The late Pope Francis made history in 2022 when he apologized to Canada’s Indigenous people for the Catholic Church’s role in residential schools.The Vatican says Leo will be formally installed as pope at a mass…

Three online friends have told Erin Patterson’s trial how they bonded with the accused triple-murderer over true-crime and grew to be a support structure for one another.

TOKYO: Japanese electronics giant Panasonic, which supplies batteries to Tesla, said on Friday (May 9) it will target 10,000 job cuts worldwide as part of efforts to boost profitability. The cuts, which represent around 4 per cent of the group’s workforce of nearly 230,000, will be implemented mainly in the current financial year to March, it said. Panasonic said it would “thoroughly review operational efficiency at each group company, mainly in sales and indirect departments”. It will “reevaluate the numbers of organisations and personnel actually needed”, a statement said. “This measure targets 10,000 employees (5,000 in Japan and 5,000 overseas)…

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the United States has reported a second radar outage for the airport in Newark, New Jersey, in less than two weeks. The incident raises continuing questions about the state of air traffic control in the US, increasing the pressure on the administration of President Donald Trump to address aviation safety. On Friday, the FAA reported that, around 3:55am local time (07:55 GMT), a facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, lost its telecommunications signal for about 90 seconds, preventing it from monitoring communications and radar signals for the Newark Liberty International Airport. A recording reviewed by the…

President Trump has ordered federal agencies to abandon the use of a longstanding legal tool used to root out discrimination against minorities, a move that could defang the nation’s bedrock civil rights law.In an expansive executive order, Mr. Trump directed the federal government to curtail the use of “disparate-impact liability,” a core tenet used for decades to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by determining whether policies disproportionately disadvantage certain groups.The little-noticed order, issued last month with a spate of others targeting equity policies, was the latest effort in Mr. Trump’s aggressive push to purge the consideration of diversity,…

Three members of Congress stormed through the gates of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in New Jersey on Friday, demanding they be allowed to conduct an “oversight visit.”Reps. Rob Menendez Jr., Bonnie Watson Coleman and LaMonica McIver, all New Jersey Democrats, entered ICE’s Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark and were held up inside the first checkpoint, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News.”These members of Congress storming into a detention facility goes beyond bizarre political stunt and puts the safety of our law enforcement agents and the detainees at risk,” a DHS statement…

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 9, 2025 4:44 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The political organization that represents Inuit in Quebec says policing in the Far North is “broken” after an officer shot and killed an Inuk man on Tuesday. The shooting by the Nunavik Police Service is the second officer-involved death in the northern region since November. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Makivvik, a group that represents the Inuit of Nunavik, says there is a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A high school lacrosse player from Ohio died this week at the age of 16 after a freak accident during a game.Dylan Veselic, a sophomore at Bay Village High School, died Thursday after taking a ball to the head two days prior.Veselic was injured after a shot from an opponent struck the back of his head underneath his helmet. He underwent surgery on Wednesday, but it was not enough. Dylan Veselic, 16, died of his injuries sustained in a high school lacrosse game. (Bay Village Boys Lacrosse)”We are deeply touched by the…

International aid agencies have warned that Israeli plans to control aid distribution in Gaza, including a US-backed proposal, will only increase suffering and death in the devastated Palestinian territory.They are calling on Israel to lift its blockade on food and other supplies, now in its third month.The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, said that the new US-devised aid system would be launched soon, urging the UN and other aid groups to participate.So far, the UN has rejected the new system, saying it “weaponises aid,” threatens to cause mass displacement of Palestinians, violates principles of neutrality and simply won’t be…

JAKARTA : Indonesia plans to change the source of some of its fuel imports from Singapore to the United States as part of negotiations over steep tariffs, its energy minister said on Friday (May 9).   The United States has imposed a 32 per cent tariff on Indonesian goods, but like other countries, implementation has been paused until July to make room for negotiations.  Minister Bahlil Lahadalia said the change of some fuel imports away from Singapore would happen gradually. Indonesia could shift as much as 60 per cent of its total fuel imports from Singapore to the United States in…