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Olha Kulybanych looks up at Canmore’s iconic Three Sisters mountain range towering over the Alberta town and said while it’s stunning — her heart aches for another peak: Hoverla Mountain back home in Ukraine. “We are grateful for Canada and for Bow Valley to have us and to help us and support us, but I’m not ready yet to call it home,” she said.Kulybanych moved to Banff three years ago, not long after she got a phone call from her father in Ukraine.“He just called me and said, ‘You are not coming to Ukraine until this war ends, but I’m…

Six teens are in hospital under police guard after they crashed an allegedly stolen car near a major highway, causing delays for commuters.

POLITICALLY SENSITIVE Carney said it was a “great honour” to welcome Modi to the G7 summit but made a passing allusion to the domestically sensitive row with a reference to “transnational repression.” Carney said he hoped to work with India on “the issues that we look to tackle together, from energy security … the future of artificial intelligence, to the fight that we have against transnational repression and against terrorism.” Sikh protesters rallied on the streets of Calgary, the closest large city to the summit, as many criticised Carney’s inclusion of Modi, who is accustomed to invitations to major international…

If passed, the bill will establish for the first time a regulatory regime for stablecoins, a fast rising financial product.The United States Senate has passed a bill to create a regulatory framework for US-dollar-pegged cryptocurrency tokens known as stablecoins, in a watershed moment for the digital asset industry. The bill, dubbed the GENIUS Act, received bipartisan support on Tuesday, with several Democrats joining most Republicans to back the proposed federal rules. It passed 68-30. The House of Representatives, which is controlled by Republicans, needs to pass its version of the bill before it heads to President Donald Trump’s desk for…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., doesn’t envision, nor want, the U.S. military becoming directly involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran, but that hinges on whether the Islamic Republic rejoins the negotiating table.”Dismantling Iran’s nuclear program is what this is all about,” Thune told Fox News Digital from his office in the Capitol. “And that can happen one of two ways. It can happen diplomatically — voluntarily — or can happen via force.”‘ANOTHER ENDLESS CONFLICT’: DEMOCRAT ECHOES TRUMP’S ANTI-WAR STANCE AS MIDDLE EAST TENSIONS ESCALATE Senate Majority…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An Illinois grand jury has filed an indictment against an Illinois high school teacher on 52 additional charges relating to the alleged sexual assault and abuse of a student in 2023.Video released in April showed 30-year-old Christina Formella getting pulled over during a traffic stop and being taken into custody after being charged with various sex crimes for having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student in 2023.Formella had been accused of sexually assaulting the boy in a classroom during a tutoring session before class began at Downers Grove South High School…

By Nicole Healey Global News Posted June 17, 2025 7:02 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada Day celebrations at Saskatoon’s River Landing will look a little different this year, with fireworks being launched from Rotary Park. Typically, fireworks are launched off the Broadway Bridge. However, with construction on the bridge, organizers planned to launch fireworks from barges on the river.Shad Ali, the Canada Day celebration director, said the high sediment and low water levels in the South Saskatchewan River make this no longer possible.“So, what that means is we cannot actually get the…

More than nine-in-ten career firefighters have delivered an overwhelming vote of no confidence in leadership after years of escalating systemic failures.

AI chatbots offer accessibility, anonymity, and speed, said telecommunications expert Heru Sutadi, executive director of the Indonesia ICT Institute. AI platforms, he said, are “programmed to be neutral and non-critical”.  “That’s why users often feel more accepted, even if the responses aren’t always deeply insightful,” he said. Unlike a session with a psychologist, “you can access AI 24/7, often at little to no cost”, Heru said. “Users can share as much as they want without the pressure of social expectations. And best of all, AI replies instantly.” In Indonesia, an in-person session with a private psychologist can cost upwards of…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldThe White House has said it will allow TikTok to continue operations in the US for another 90 days, extending a deadline for the popular Chinese-owned social media app to divest a stake in the platform to satisfy American law.“President [Donald] Trump will sign an additional executive order this week to keep TikTok up and running,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday. “As he has said many times, president Trump does not want TikTok to go dark.“This…