Unpublished Newswire

The Ottawa Student Transportation Authority has designated five new “community hazard zones” around elementary schools, citing ongoing social and environmental concerns.  The affected areas include neighbourhoods near Chinatown along Somerset Street West, as well as Lowertown around Rideau Street and King Edward Avenue. As part of the change, bus service will be extended to approximately 60 additional students who live within the newly identified zones. What prompted the decision — and what does it mean for families on the ground? Kristy Cameron speaks with Mike...

MUMBAI, INDIA — Back on the international stage for the first time since his headline-grabbing speech in Davos, Prime Minister Mark Carney is taking that message on the road, first to India, then likely later to Australia when he addresses its Parliament. Carney’s rallying cry last month was that middle powers must unite against “hegemons” and he told an audience in India that his words resonated because he said out loud what many of those middle powers are thinking. While government officials downplayed the question of whether the prime minister on his travels would be delivering a...