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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 9, 2025 9:54 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Some 17,500 customers are still without electricity more than a week after a powerful spring storm encrusted parts of central and eastern Ontario with ice. Hydro One’s outage map shows most of those are in the Peterborough and Georgian Bay areas, both hard hit by the March 30 ice storm. Get daily National news Get the day’s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. The utility said in an update early Tuesday…

A new plan to lower power bills for millions of Aussies who have been forgotten in a scheme to provide cheaper home batteries will be launched by the Greens.

BEIJING: China’s coast guard said on Wednesday (Apr 9) it had allowed a Philippine civilian vessel to deliver provisions to a warship “illegally grounded” at the Second Thomas Shoal, a disputed atoll in the South China Sea. The coast guard questioned and monitored the Philippine vessel throughout its supply mission, it said in a statement, urging the Philippines to work with China to manage the maritime situation. The Philippine embassy in Beijing did not immediately respond to a request for comment. China and the Philippines have traded barbs for months over manoeuvres at Second Thomas Shoal, an atoll within Manila’s 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)…

A whopping increase in tariffs, followed by a whopping retaliation. Nationalist Chinese bloggers comparing President Trump’s levies to a declaration of war. China’s Foreign Ministry vowing that Beijing will “fight to the end.” For years, the world’s two biggest powers have flirted with the idea of an economic decoupling as tensions between them have risen. The acceleration this week of their trade relationship’s deterioration has made the prospect of such a divorce seem closer than ever.That was underscored on Wednesday when China announced an additional 50 percent tariff on U.S. goods, matching new American levies that had taken effect hours…

NASA will prioritize sending American astronauts to Mars, President Trump’s nominee to lead the space agency will tell a Senate committee on Wednesday.The nominee is Jared Isaacman, the chief executive of the payment processing company Shift4 Payments, who is a close associate of Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX. As someone who has led two private astronaut flights to orbit, he would, if confirmed, bring to NASA and its $25 billion budget a perspective more in line with newer entrepreneurial aerospace companies like SpaceX.Mr. Isaacman’s confirmation hearing begins at 10 a.m. Eastern time. You can watch it in the video…

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Ottawa has exempted a small New Brunswick island off the coast of Maine from Canadian counter-tariffs it imposed on U.S. goods amid President Donald Trump’s trade war — goods the island’s residents rely on for their daily needs. Campobello Island is only accessible year-round by a bridge connecting it to the closest town, Lubec, Maine.Because of its geography, the island’s population of under 1,000 people often travel across the border for gas, groceries and other items, but have faced 25 per cent tariffs on those goods since early March.Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, who is running for re-election as the Liberal candidate…

Labor plans on making it easier for schoolchildren to visit one of Australia’s most popular tourist destinations with a multi-million dollar cash splash.

A New Mexico high school baseball player was arrested, and his team suspended over allegations the teen urinated in an opposing team’s water jug.The 16-year-old, who attends Rio Rancho High School and played on the junior varsity, faced 15 counts of battery over the incident. A 16-year-old high school baseball player was arrested over allegations the teen urinated in an opposing team’s water jug. (Greg Jaklewicz/Reporter-News via Imagn Content Services, LLC)”We’re glad authorities in Rio Rancho took this matter seriously and filed criminal charges,” Albuquerque Public Schools said in a statement, via KOAT-TV. “Outrageous behavior like this must be met…

SINGAPORE: China has responded more forcefully and swiftly than before to United States President Donald Trump’s latest tariff salvo, said observers, citing how it has slapped retaliatory tariffs totalling 84 per cent on American goods just hours after Washington’s duties kicked in. The move, announced by Beijing on Wednesday (Apr 9) evening and taking effect on Apr 10, signals a clear shift in posture, with China no longer appearing fearful of losing access to the US for both exports and imports, analysts said. In a statement, China’s State Council Tariff Commission condemned the US for escalating the trade dispute, saying…