Author: Francisco Marshall

The United States will work with other governments to speed up efforts to make nuclear fusion a new source of carbon-free energy, U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry said Tuesday, the latest of many U.S. announcements the last week aimed at combatting climate change. Nuclear fusion melds two hydrogen atoms together to produce a helium atom and a lot of energy—which could be used to power cars, heat and cool homes and other things that currently are often powered by fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas. That makes fusion a potentially major solution to climate change, which is caused by…

U.S. Soccer has announced that the Philadelphia Union Academy trio Peter Doran, Cavan Sullivan and Jamir Johnson have been selected for the U.S. Under-16 Men’sYouth National Team will hold its first training camp of the 2023-24 cycle from Nov. 12-19 at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. Players born on or after Jan. 1, 2008 are age-eligible for this one-year cycle. The roster features 23 players born in 2008 and one born in 2009- Philadelphia Union forward Cavan Sullivan. U-19 MYNT head coach Michael Nsien, who served as U-16 MYNT head coach from Nov. 2022-Sept. 2023 will lead the…

Hundreds of travellers were stranded in Pearson airport’s terminal one Thursday after an employee opened a door the wrong way, an aviation source told CBC Toronto. Roughly 200 passengers who had arrived at Pearson from various parts of Canada in the early morning ended up in the wrong area of the airport as a result of the error, the source said, causing confusion with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Multiple connecting flights to the U.S. were delayed while officials tried to sort out the issue. “Toronto Pearson and [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] are working with airlines to identify flights…

Canada aims to welcome 485,000 new permanent residents in 2024, following the 2024-2026 Immigration Levels Plan. Through a statement, the government announced its plans to open its doors to 500,000 residents in 2025 and 500,000 in 2026, VisaGuide.World reports. The plan prioritizes economic growth while supporting family reunification, responding to humanitarian crises, and recognizing the fast growth in immigration in recent years. It emphasized that immigrants have an important role in the labor market and in growing the country’s economy, helping to ensure Canada has the skills needed in order to meet the main goals, such as supporting sustainability initiatives…

Indican Pictures has acquired North American rights for Australian filmmaker Alena Lodkina’s fantasy thriller Petrol about the unsettling friendship between a shy film student and an alluring performance artist with a troubled past. The film originally world premiered at Locarno’s Filmmakers Of The Present competition in 2022, and then enjoyed a buzzy North American premiere at the Lincoln Centre and MoMA’s New Directors/ New Films Festival earlier this year. Indican Pictures co-founder Randolph Kret negotiated the deal with UK-French film company Alief, with the latter reporting that the distribution company had beaten bids from two other key indie players on…

Ask anybody in America and they can tell you where they were when 9-11 happened. For Kendra Lauruhn, it was more memorable than most. She had enlisted in the Air Force in the Delayed Entry Program while still in high school. “I spent the summer home and then I was actually supposed to leave on Sept. 11, 2001,” Lauruhn said. “I was going to go to MEPS (Military Entry Processing Station) that day. We were going to ship off from MEPS in Denver. It was morning, we hadn’t left yet. Honestly, I’m still sleeping and my mom called me from…

Alaska Airlines is expanding our partnership with Condor Airlines – one of our global partners since March 2017 – with a bilateral codeshare agreement that enables Alaska and Condor to sell each other’s flights. Last week, Condor began marketing and selling more than 70 Alaska routes across the U.S. This past summer, Alaska began marketing and selling from Condor’s 12 U.S. gateway cities – including Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles (LAX) and Anchorage – to Frankfurt, Germany, the carrier’s home airport. A codeshare agreement allows each airline to sell seats on one another’s selected flights as if they were…

Canada will face rising economic uncertainty if the province of Alberta carries out a threat to withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says. Freeland made her remarks at a press conference after a phone call with regional finance ministers to discuss the issue last Friday. Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner later last Friday said the province would not leave fellow Canadians without a stable pension and its associated benefits. “For the past several weeks, Alberta has been having an open discussion about the possibility of establishing an Alberta Pension Plan that will benefit our…

Medically assisted deaths jumped by 31 per cent in Canada last year as part of a continuing trend since the practice was legalized in 2016 for those with a serious and incurable illness or disability, a federal report says. Health Canada says in the report that 13,241 people chose medical assistance in dying (MAID) in 2022, for a total of 44,958 deaths so far, and that the average annual growth rate has been31 per cent from 2019 to 2022. The fourth annual report comes before MAID is expected to expand next spring to include people with a mental disorder as…

Cider lovers don’t have to go outside Chicago to taste some of America’s best cider, according to one publication.USA Today revealed its ranking of the 10 best cideries in the U.S., one of many lists included in its 2023 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards. Sitting at the very top is ERIS Brewery and Cider House, 4240 W. Irving Park Rd., in Old Irving Park. A women-owned brewery and cider house, ERIS bills itself on taking a modern approach to making ciders, according to its website. Cozy caramel apple, blueberry, peach, cherry pumpkin spice and cider consisting of a blend of Gala…