Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s back to work she goes! Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, made a quiet return to work this week, almost six months after she revealed to the world she had been diagnosed with cancer and was undergoing chemotherapy treatment. The princess met with her Centre for Early Childhood staff and employees of Kensington…
MONTREAL – When Chris Boucher first played an NBA pre-season game in his home city in 2018, he was a raw talent trying to crack the Toronto Raptors roster. Six years later, the 31-year-old is back in Montreal as the longest-serving Raptor — and the only remaining player from the 2019 championship team. “It’s been…
A significant shift is reshaping the investment landscape, signaling a potential end to traditional fund management. Investors are increasingly moving toward passive index funds, which automatically follow market indexes using computer algorithms. This trend has caused a decline in actively managed funds, which rely on investment managers to outperform the market. In the U.S., the…
Pimco’s Decline Post-Bill Gross Once a titan in the bond fund world, Pimco has seen its assets plummet below $100 billion—a striking shift since founder and “bond king” Bill Gross left nearly a year ago. Gross’s departure triggered significant investor withdrawals, leading to an ongoing decline that has brought Pimco’s assets to their lowest level…
Both vice-presidential candidates had their microphones briefly cut off following a fact-checking fracas during Tuesday’s debate, in one of the evening’s most contentious moments. JD Vance and Tim Walz kept Tuesday’s debate mostly civil as they squared off on issues of abortion, immigration and the economy, but that Midwestern niceness appeared to dissolve when the…
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) released video of the moment when a Russian jet came dangerously close to a U.S. Air Force F-16 in the airspace off Alaska’s coast last week. A U.S. senator from Alaska later said the Russian jet came “within just a few feet” of the American plane. The video,…
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is reportedly leaning towards supporting Donald Trump’s potential return to the U.S. presidency, with many in Israel hopeful that Trump would implement policies favorable to the nation. In contrast, Biden’s administration has taken a more critical approach to Netanyahu’s strategies, leading analysts to speculate that a Trump victory would give Netanyahu…
A confidence vote on a government budget motion may not happen on Wednesday after all, but the Liberals are still under pressure as they face a vote on a Bloc Québécois ultimatum. The ways and means motion that paves the way to legislate a change to capital gains taxes was initially scheduled for this afternoon…
Premier François Legault says the federal government should force asylum seekers arriving in Quebec to move to other provinces, including people who have already settled in the province. Legault said during a trip to Paris on Wednesday that he wants half of the asylum seekers currently in Quebec to be transferred elsewhere in the country. The premier says it…
Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblower media group WikiLeaks, told European lawmakers on Tuesday his guilty plea to U.S. espionage accusations was necessary because legal and political efforts to protect his freedom were not sufficient. “I eventually chose freedom over an unrealisable justice,” Assange said, in his first public comments since his release from prison,…
