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San Diego International among airports with highest number of delays

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:50 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Summer travel season is well underway, with millions of people hitting the roads and the skies for their next adventure. However, those headed to San Diego International Airport (SAN) should be ready for possible delays. After a rough season last year, a new study from the travel insurance company InsureMyTrip looked to help passengers predict which airports are likely to experience delays or cancellations this summer. SAN, the company found, was among the top U.S. airports most likely to experience a delay during the busiest travel season of the year. AAA predicts record-setting travel for 4th of July On a ranking of the airports with the highest percentage of delays, SAN ranked 10th based on Department of Transportation data from the first three months of 2023, coming in behind Orlando International Airport in Florida.The majority delayed flights from the first quarter of the year came from six airports in Hawaii and Florida, according to the InsureMyTrip study.The...

Highest-rated barbecue restaurants in San Diego for 2023, according to Yelp

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:50 GMT

SAN DIEGO — Barbecue, also known as BBQ for short, has captivated the taste buds of millions of people across the world; its smell, a quintessential part of backyard parties and long, lazy holiday weekends. This cooking method involves slow cooking and smoking meat over an open flame or heat source. Beyond the slab of baby back ribs and brisket that we're probably familiar with, barbecue has a long history dating back centuries and is rooted in various cultures.The earliest origins of barbecue can be traced back to the Taino people, who were Indigenous to the Caribbean. By the 19th century, the technique became widespread in the American South, primarily using pork. Taino people didn't use the word barbecue. Instead, this method of cooking food over a raised wooden grate was referred to as barbacoa.As time passed, techniques and flavors evolved as a result of colonization, globalization, and advancements in technology. Today, barbecue has become a beloved food all over the world. In...

Canada considers Quebec woman with six children in Syria a security risk, lawyer says

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:50 GMT

OTTAWA — A lawyer says Canada will not repatriate a Quebec woman being held in Syria with her six children because officials believe she poses a security risk.Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon, who has been working to bring the woman home, says he was advised of the decision recently by Global Affairs Canada.He says the department wrote June 21 that the woman has “extremist ideological beliefs” that may lead her to act violently, and the government cannot ensure no such conduct occurs.Greenspon says the excuse is untrue and unacceptable, arguing the government could deal with the woman as needed through Canada’s justice system.He says the federal decision means the woman must decide whether to send her children to Canada alone or keep them with her in Syrian detention.The family is among the many foreign nationals in Syrian camps run by Kurdish forces that took back the war-torn region from the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. This report by The Canadian Pre...

Forest fire centre declares 2023 already worst year ever for Canadian wildfires

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:50 GMT

MONTREAL — Canada surpassed the record for area burned by wildfires in a single year Monday as hundreds of fires continued to blaze in almost every province and territory.The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre reported Monday afternoon that 76,129 square kilometres of forest and other land has burned since Jan. 1. That exceeds the previous record set in 1989 of 75,596 square kilometres, according to the National Forestry Database.Last week federal Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair said he wasn’t “looking to break any records” but acknowledged it was likely coming. “Unfortunately the fire season this year started earlier and has been more widespread across the country than in recent memory,” he said.It took less than six months to surpass the previous record for an entire year. And in 1989, more than 11,000 different fires combined to create the total, with an average size of about seven square kilometres. This year, there have been less than 3,0...

David Johnston files final report on foreign meddling, done as special rapporteur

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:50 GMT

OTTAWA — David Johnston has filed his final — and confidential — report on foreign interference to the prime minister, ending his controversial term as special rapporteur.Johnston had announced his plans to resign the role earlier this month, saying the atmosphere around his work had become too partisan. The former governor general was appointed to the role in March, as the Liberal government faced increasing pressure to tackle allegations that China meddled in the last two federal elections.Johnston’s initial report in May concluded that a public inquiry would not be a constructive way forward — angering opposition parties, who accused him of being too close to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.In a news release today, the office of the independent special rapporteur says Johnston has sent Trudeau a “supplement to the confidential annex” of his earlier report, meaning it will not be made public.Opposition party leaders had been in negotiations last week to decide on t...

Stratford fest expands digital theatrical offerings to Apple, Android, Amazon, Roku

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:50 GMT

The Stratford Festival is growing its digital reach while working towards rebuilding live audiences that withered in the early days of the pandemic.The southwestern Ontario theatre company says stage fans can now find highlights of its past seasons on iOS/tvOS, Apple TV, Android/Android TV, Amazon Fire TV and Roku.The app Stratfest@Home costs $7.99 per month for access to stage productions, behind-the-scenes content, audio plays and original programming.The tool expands a web-only version launched in October 2020 that cost $10 per month.It comes as the festival continues efforts to rebound from a $4-million loss in 2020, when pandemic restrictions cancelled 15 planned productions just as previews were about to start.The festival’s publicity director says they hope to lure 400,000 audience members this season, which features 13 shows across all four venues.Ann Swerdfager said Monday the company expects a gradual, years-long rebuild to reach the pre-pandemic norm of roughly 500,...

Toronto mayoral byelection 2023 results with interactive map

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:50 GMT

Find real-time results across Toronto from the 2023 mayoral byelection.Click the map below starting at 8 p.m. to search by ward to find election results. Get all your need-to-know information for the election here.Toronto election ward map

Book Review: ‘White House by the Sea’ tells storied Kennedy tale through family’s compound

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:50 GMT

“White House By the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port” by Kate Storey (Scribner)The history of the Kennedy family is so well-chronicled — from the modern Camelot legend surrounding John F. Kennedy’s presidency to the series of tragedies that marked the family throughout the 20tb century — that it’s hard to imagine new ways to tell their story.But Kate Storey does just that in “White House By the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port” — revisiting the family’s history through their time at the famed Kennedy compound on Cape Cod.Storey, the senior features editor at Rolling Stone magazine, weaves a fascinating narrative about the Kennedy family using Hyannis Port as the backdrop. The book traces the family’s ties to the compound back to the 1920s, when Joseph Kennedy bought Malcolm Cottage, what became known as the Big House.Many of the stories feel so familiar, from Joseph Kennedy Jr.’s death during World War II to John F. Ken...

Trudeau taking cautious reaction to revolt to avoid fuelling Russian propaganda

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:50 GMT

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND — Canada is monitoring the situation in Russia after a short-lived armed rebellion by a mercenary leader this weekend, Prime Minister Justin said Monday, adding a cautious approach is needed to avoid fuelling Russian propaganda.A revolt staged Saturday by Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the mercenary paramilitary organization known as the Wagner Group, loomed large over a two-day gathering of Nordic leaders in Iceland, which Trudeau attended as a guest.The events in Russia pushed security to the top of the agenda, which was organized around the theme of “societal resilience” at the site of a 1973 volcanic eruption. Speaking to reporters on Monday, Trudeau said the recent upheaval under Russian President Vladimir Putin’s watch was an “internal issue for Russia to work through,” and pledged his continuing support for Ukraine. Later in the day he elaborated on why he took that cautious approach. “We are watching, of course, and we are...

Groups decry ‘punitive,’ ‘coercive’ drug policies amid worsening overdose crisis

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:30:50 GMT

VANCOUVER — A coalition of eight advocacy groups is decrying Canada’s “devastating” drug policy that advocates say is doing more harm than good in the country’s fight against the illicit drug overdose crisis.The groups sent a co-written letter to three federal ministers on Monday, criticizing the country’s drug policy as “punitive” and “coercive” and urging Ottawa to “issue a public statement denouncing all forms” of involuntary care aimed at drug users across Canada.Corey Ranger, president of co-authoring group Harm Reduction Nurses Association, said while programs such as mandatory treatment of overdose patients infringe on individual rights, there is an equal amount of concern over how effective they are in the first place. “The reality is that involuntary care, punitive approaches, simply do not work,” said Ranger, who has worked in harm reduction for a decade. “And that is one of the most import...