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READ MORE Federal prosecutors on Tuesday portrayed U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chair Paul Manafort as a man who felt tax and banking laws did not apply to him and described how he opened more than 30 bank accounts in three foreign countries to “receive and hide” income from Ukraine. Jurors in Federal Court in Virginia heard opening statements from the prosecution and defence in Manafort’s trial on charges that he hid tens of millions of dollars earned in Ukraine in offshore accounts and defrauded banks for loans. It is the first trial arising from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Manafort has pleaded not guilty. Lawyers for Manafort countered by painting their client as a victim of his employees, including former colleague Rick Gates, who is co-operating with Mueller’s probe. “This case is about taxes and trust,” defence attorney Thoma...

READ MORE Two men have confessed to snatching a small shark from a Texas aquarium’s interactive touch tank, then whisking it away, wrapping it in a blanket and concealing it in a baby stroller, police say. Miss Helen, the 40-centimetre-long grey horn shark, was returned to the San Antonio Aquarium on Monday night, two days after the heist was captured on surveillance video . “Sharknapping: Unsuccessful!” the aquarium posted on Facebook afterward. The surveillance footage shows a man plucking the shark from the tank and carrying it away, off camera, still dripping water. Another man is then seen depositing a blanket-wrapped item into a stroller and walking off, accompanied by the first man and a woman carrying a child. Jenny Spellman, the aquarium’s general manager, told CBC Radio’s As It Happens she was in her office at the aquarium on Saturday when an employee called her to report that a suspicious man had emerged from the employee backroom pus...

READ MORE Actor Seth Rogen has just been announced as the voice of Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). As with his previously announced  work for Vancouver transit, Rogen will be voicing the public service announcements played at Toronto subway stations, promoting passenger courtesy.  But surely, in a country so rich with voice talent, there are other contenders who could challenge Rogen’s apparent transit supremacy. Here are some suggestions. Calgary Jann Arden There are few prouder Calgarians than Jann Arden. Arden, whose comedic timing has made her a popular host of award shows like the Junos, would probably come up with funny quips to get the crowd moving along on Calgary’s CTrain.  And if you don’t move to the back of the train, she just might sing you  Insensitive . Feist It’s not as well-known that Feist is also a Calgarian. The indie-queen’s vibrato would convey the right atmosphere for stations in some of Cal...

READ MORE New York, USA – A court in the United States  has heard the first oral argumentation between representatives of the Herero and Nama  people and representatives of the German government, in a case concerning damages for what has been termed the first genocide of the 20th century. An estimated 100,000 Ovaherero and Nama people were killed between 1904 and 1908 as a result of a mass-extermination policy initiated by German colonial troops in South West Africa, currently known as Namibia, when the territory was a German colony. US District Judge Laura Taylor Swain on Tuesday presided over the one-hour hearing in New York, where a delegation of 50 Herero and Nama people from around the world joined the plaintiffs in attendance. “All we are asking for is restorative justice for the genocide,” said Ngondi Kamatuka, a Namibian-born American of Herero descent. “All we want is for there to be a jury who can weigh the preponderance of the evidence....

READ MORE Palestinian citizens of Israel are planning a series of actions, including a general strike and international campaigning, in a bid to cancel a controversial law that defines the country exclusively as “the nation-state of the Jewish people”. Palestinian members of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, described the legislation’s adoption on July 19 as an effort to sabotage the Palestinian “story and narrative”. “It’s an attempt at destroying the entire rhetoric of historic Palestine … it stands against an entire people,” MK Ahmad Tibi, told Al Jazeera. The Basic Law, which has constitutional-like standing, gives only Jews the right to self-determination. It also strips Arabic of its official language designation, downgrading it to a “special status” that enables its continued use within Israeli institutions. Additionally, it allows the Israeli government to expand the state’s annexation of Palestinian la...

READ MORE A nursing student who took a bullet to the spine while rushing to help a wounded victim of the Toronto Greektown shooting is gradually coming out of a medically induced coma, but the full extent of her injuries is not yet known, her boyfriend said Tuesday. Danielle Kane, 31, was shot as she and her partner, nurse Jerry Pinksen, rushed out of a Danforth Avenue restaurant on July 22, hoping to put their life-saving training to use.  “Doctors said that worst-case scenario, she’s in a wheelchair with the use of her arms and torso, and best-case scenario she’s going to be walking with an aid or a walker of some sort,” said Pinksen, 35, who has been with Kane for nearly two years. “I’ve been through some emotional distress but Danielle right now is suffering from potentially a lifelong deficit, so I want to make sure that people recognize how selfless she was, trying to race out there and help someone, not knowing what we...

READ MORE The Ontario basic income pilot project is coming to an end, says Children, Community and Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod. MacLeod said Tuesday that the project was expensive, and “clearly not the answer for Ontario families.” She said the ministry would have “more details at a later date” about how the government would end the project. Close to 4,000 people were enrolled in the basic income pilot program in Thunder Bay, Lindsay, Hamilton, Brantford and Brant County. The pilot project started in April 2017. It was originally set to last three years, and explore the effectiveness of providing a basic income to those living on low incomes — whether they were working or not. Under the project, a single person could have received up to about $17,000 a year, minus half of any income he or she earned. A couple could have received up to $24,000 per year. People with disabilities could have rece...