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Descrease article font size Increase article font size A nine-year-old’s class project pushing for safer school zones on Montreal’s off-island suburb of Pincourt has reached Quebec’s national assembly. It has been a busy week for Grade 5 student Alexandre Masse, who has been balancing schoolwork while meeting Quebec elected officials.For the past five months, Masse has had one goal in mind: “to make the roads safe in Quebec,” he said.It all started with a class project.After a close call crossing the street one morning on his way to school, Alexandre began documenting pickup and drop-off traffic outside École Notre-Dame-de-Lorette elementary…

European stock index futures were relatively mixed today, June 11, as investors watched the developments in the Middle East and the impact on the energy market. They also wavered ahead of the European Central Bank (ECB) interest rate decision.Futures tied to the German DAX dropped by 80 points to €24,160. It has retreated by nearly 6% from its highest point this year. On the other hand, futures linked to the CAC 40 and Euro Stoxx rose slightly, mirroring the performance of their American counterparts. After dropping sharply on Wednesday, the Dow Jones, S&P 500, and Nasdaq 100 futures rose by…

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NEW DELHI: Three Indian sailors on a commercial vessel hit by the United States off the coast of Oman are dead, New Delhi’s shipping minister said on Thursday (Jun 11).”It is deeply unfortunate to learn of the tragic incident aboard the Palau-flagged MT Settebello,” Sarbananda Sonowal said in a statement, referring to the strike on the vessel a day earlier.”Sadly, three Indian seafarers initially reported missing are now confirmed dead after bodies have been located and identified.”India’s foreign ministry summoned a top US diplomat in New Delhi after the US attack on Wednesday on MT Settebello to lodge “a strong…

NewsFeedVideo released by US Central Command shows what the military says are ‘self-defence’ strikes on Iranian military surveillance capabilities, communications systems and air defence sites. The footage accompanied a statement that US forces had completed the latest wave of attacks.Published On 11 Jun 202611 Jun 2026Click here to share on social mediashare-nodesSharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Trump administration officials fired back at critics of the planned White House UFC fight, arguing they can simply avoid the event rather than use an 11th-hour lawsuit to block thousands of spectators from gathering on the South Lawn.”It would be easy enough to simply avert their gazes for the weekend,” Department of Justice attorneys wrote in a court filing this week. “Instead, they seek to enlist the power of a federal court to impose their idiosyncratic preferences on the rest of the country and ruin an event designed to celebrate the United…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Authorities on Wednesday identified a suspect in the shooting that injured 12 people near Toledo’s Old West End Festival and said they are searching for a suspected second gunman.The Toledo Police Department said a manhunt is underway for Ka Nye Taylor, who is wanted on 11 counts of felonious assault in connection with the June 6 shooting near the popular Old West End Festival, an annual event featuring live music, food vendors and home tours.Police described Taylor as a Black male standing approximately 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing about 130…

By Thomas Laberge The Canadian Press Posted June 10, 2026 8:26 pm Updated June 10, 2026 11:29 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Quebec’s auditor general says the provincial government showed poor planning in $2.2 billion of investments in various battery companies. The report released today by Christine Roy found that the investments by the Coalition Avenir Québec government lacked clear objectives and timelines.Roy’s office analyzed 29 files related to 11 companies in the battery sector, representing approximately $2.2 billion in authorized financial assistance as of Sept. 30, 2025.About $1.9 billion of that money had been…

A KKR logo displayed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 23, 2018.Brendan McDermid | ReutersU.S.-based investment giant KKR expects the AI-driven productivity boom is only just getting started, but said it could mean growth is concentrated in just a few sectors. That’s according to the firm’s mid-year report distributed Thursday.While AI-driven productivity gains will play out in coming years, “the offset is that intensifying strategic competition will likely make economic growth more concentrated across fewer industries and, at times, more extreme than anything we have seen since the start of the second industrial revolution in…

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