ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A court on Wednesday convicted a Turkish journalist of threatening President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reports said, in a case that critics view as an attempt to silence a prominent voice against the government. Fatih Altayli, 63, a veteran journalist whose YouTube programs attracted hundreds of thousands of views daily, was sentenced […]
A Point-in-Time Count snapshotted 1,150 people experiencing homelessness in Halifax Regional Municipality, including 17 per cent who were unsheltered. A new report with data collected in October showcases that several people are sleeping outside in the municipality as winter approaches. According to the numbers provided by the Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia (AHA), 197 […]
PARIS (AP) — A large number of French media outlets on Wednesday called for the release of sports journalist Christophe Gleizes, who is imprisoned in Algeria ahead of his appeals trial next week. The Alliance of General Information Press, which represents more than 300 outlets, published a collective op-ed across its members’ publications. A court […]
The CEO of Nova Scotia Power says an unidentified group based out of Russia is believed to have been behind a cyberattack earlier this year. Peter Gregg made the comment at a legislative committee meeting on Tuesday, to which he had been summoned to answer questions around billing concerns from the utility’s customers. “This incident […]
The question dominating trader sentiment today is simple: why is the crypto market crashing, and whether Bitcoin can hold the line after a brutal multi-week correction. As of late November 2025, BTC USD has dropped from its $126,000 ATH to lows near $80K, wiping out more than $600Bn in market value. With the BTC price […]
A senior Kremlin official confirmed Wednesday that U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is set to visit Moscow next week as efforts to find a consensus on ending the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine pick up speed. But Yuri Ushakov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign affairs adviser, insisted that Kremlin officials still have not […]
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — The Olympic flame began its journey Wednesday to the Milan Cortina Winter Games — missing a little of its usual magic. Bad weather lashing western Greece forced organizers to move the torch-lighting ceremony indoors, from Olympia’s ancient stadium and temples to a nearby museum. The flame is lit by focusing […]
Haligonians will soon be able to fly directly to another European destination as Air Canada announces non-stop service to Brussels, Belgium. The airline says the route, connecting Halifax Stanfield and Brussels Airport, will launch on June 18, 2026. The seasonal service will run three times a week using a “narrowbody” aircraft, according to Air Canada. […]
In today’s crypto market news, there’s a weird and interesting blend of signals coming from the institutional space, especially with BlackRock, JP Morgan, and a series of new Russia crypto policy changes all landing at once. BlackRock and Fidelity keep grocery shopping Bitcoin during a sale. JP Morgan is suddenly speaking about crypto as if […]
The conversation around Hyperliquid’s price and its rapidly expanding ecosystem has completely changed since the rollout of the HIP-3 upgrade. This transformative upgrade turns Hyperliquid from a single-perpetuals exchange into a fully decentralized, permissionless “exchange-of-exchanges”. With new markets launching daily, trading fees slashed by over 90%, and builders pouring into the ecosystem, HIP-3 is being […]