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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Anyone who has visited an emergency room in Alberta in recent years knows to expect a wait if not critically ill or injured, and now a new report confirms wait times have increased. The report by the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) has found the median length of stay in an Alberta emergency room was three hours and 58 minutes in 2024 — up 54 minutes over the past five years.The median length of stay from arrival to unit transfer or discharge is the middle value of trips to the ER — meaning…

Harry Wilson has been named to start for the Queensland Reds against a Crusaders team stacked with All Blacks for their Super Rugby Pacific qualifying final.The incumbent Wallabies captain looked at long odds to play when he ran off in obvious pain late in Saturday’s defeat of the Fijian Drua, just two games into his return from a fractured arm.But precautionary scans cleared Wilson to return to training this week.The influential No.8 trained on Tuesday and has been named to start in what is forecast to be a cold, wet Friday-night encounter.Wilson starred when the Reds ended a 25-year winning…

HANOI: Vietnam’s communist government has scrapped its long-standing policy of limiting families to two children, state media said Wednesday (Jun 4), as the country battles to reverse a declining birth rate. The country banned couples from having more than two children in 1988, but a family’s size is now a decision for each individual couple, Vietnam News Agency said. The country has experienced historically low birth rates during the last three years, with the total fertility rate dropping to just 1.91 children per woman last year, below replacement level, the ministry of health said this year. Birth rates have fallen…

A jury found the three ex-military officers guilty of killing the journalists who were making a documentary on El Salvador’s civil war at the time.Three former officers in El Salvador’s military have been convicted for the killings of four Dutch journalists during the Central American country’s brutal civil war in 1982. Former Minister of National Defence Colonel Jose Guillermo Garcia, 91, former police Colonel Francisco Moran, 93, and ex-infantry brigade commander Colonel Mario Adalberto Reyes Mena, 85, were found guilty late on Tuesday by a jury in the northern city of Chalatenango, a lawyer said. The Diario El Salvador news…

Police in Florida arrested a man who allegedly climbed a fence and tried to enter President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club early Tuesday, the Secret Service said.The alleged intruder — described only as an adult male — “scaled a perimeter fence and triggered alarms” shortly after midnight on Tuesday, a Secret Service spokesperson said in a statement to CBS News. He was detained by the Secret Service “without incident” before local police in Palm Beach took him into custody and charged him with trespassing, according to the spokesperson. The arrested man allegedly told local police he hoped to speak with Mr. Trump about…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Police in Texas have identified a man from overseas as the person who allegedly made death threats directed at Houston Astros pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. and his family after his poor start against the Cincinnati Reds last month. A spokesperson with the Houston Police Department told The Associated Press Monday a man betting on the Astros was “inebriated” when he sent the threats on social media.  Houston Astros starting pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. walks off the mound after a pitching change during the first inning against the Cincinnati Reds at Daikin Park. (Troy Taormina/Imagn Images)”Investigators…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man in Milwaukee allegedly forged a letter threatening President Donald Trump’s life to get another man deported and prevent him from testifying in a criminal trial.Demetric D. Scott is accused of posing as Ramón Morales-Reyes, a 54-year-old illegal immigrant, when writing a letter threatening to assassinate Trump. Scott is facing multiple charges, including witness intimidation.Morales-Reyes is an illegal immigrant who has a criminal record that includes arrests for felony hit-and-run, criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct with a “domestic abuse modifier,” according to the Department of Homeland Security. Ramón Morales-Reyes…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.American meat eaters may not have heard of JBS, but chances are they have sampled its wares. Now, the Brazilian meat processor, the largest in the world, wants them to sample its shares, too.JBS supplies much of the beef, pork and poultry that ends up on American plates, and the reliance is mutual. More than half of the $77.2bn in revenue it pulled in last year came from the US. That exposure is one reason the company has long coveted a US…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The asset cap under which Wells Fargo laboured for seven years — finally lifted on Tuesday — remains one of the weirdest, and harshest, penalties meted out to a rogue financial institution. Having extensively defrauded customers, the bank was barred by the Federal Reserve in 2018 from growing its assets above $2tn. The cap was temporary; its impact is not.Charlie Scharf, who took over as chief executive in 2019 after multiple scandals felled his two predecessors, has spent his time at Wells…

Manitoba First Nations leaders say efforts to protect their northern Manitoba communities are being hampered by a lack of firefighting equipment. “It’s like trying to fight a fire with a water pistol. That’s what our leaders were faced with,” Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO) Grand Chief Garrison Settee said at a press conference Tuesday.“Give us the equipment. Wherever you can get it from, take it to the north. Our people need it today.”Settee’s calls were joined by Assembly of Manitoba Grand Chief Kyra Wilson, Pimicikamak Cree Nation Chief David Monias, and Mathias Colomb Cree Nation Chief Gordie Bear, calling on the…