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What happens next for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor?
Police searches at Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s former home of Royal Lodge, in Windsor, are continuing, after he was released by police under investigation on Thursday evening.
His arrest came after police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Mountbatten-Windsor has consistently and strenuously denied any wrongdoing.
The BBC’s Helena Wilkinson has been reporting on the arrest from outside the former prince’s home, asking the question of what’s next for the King’s brother?
Parts of Ontario to receive up to 20 cm of rain and snow mix into Saturday | Globalnews.ca
A rain-to-snow transition is sweeping across Ontario once again, with eastern and central parts of the province forecast to receive up to 20 centimetres of snow through Saturday.
According to weather forecasters, a storm similar to Wednesday’s system will move across southern and eastern Ontario on Friday, bringing another round of mixed and shifting precipitation.
The showers started Friday morning and will move east throughout the day.
Many regions are expected to see rain transition to freezing rain before changing over to snow, though not all areas will experience every phase.
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The precipitation near the Greater Toronto Area will create cloudy and wet conditions throughout the day, before the rain is expected to stop in the evening.
Compared with Wednesday’s storm, the approaching system is expected to deliver more consistent snowfall to eastern Ontario, including Ottawa, where accumulation totals could climb significantly.
According to Environment Canada, the heaviest snowfall, between 15 and 20 centimetres, is forecasted for parts of eastern and central Ontario, where colder air is expected to remain firmly in place.
Toronto, however, is expected to stay warm enough to predominantly see rain for much of the event, with a gradual shift to snow possible later.
Environment Canada has also issued yellow freezing rain warnings for some areas north and east of Ottawa, as well as regions farther north, including areas near Barrie.
Environment Canada urges the public to check driving conditions before getting behind the wheel.
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to discuss plans for provincial referendums | Globalnews.ca
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith will be holding a press conference in Calgary on Friday morning to discuss her government’s plans to hold a provincial referendum this fall that will ask Albertans’ opinions on various immigration and constitutional issues.
Smith announced her plans in a provincewide television address on Thursday evening.
The vote will be held on Oct. 19, and the premier said there will be nine questions on the ballot, including whether the Government of Alberta should push to have the federal Senate abolished, whether the Canadian constitution should be amended to allow provincial governments to select the justices appointed to provincial King’s Bench and Appeal courts and whether the constitution should be amended to give provincial laws dealing with areas of shared constitutional jurisdiction priority over federal laws.
However, the most controversial questions focus on giving the province more control over immigration, including whether the province should introduce a new law mandating that only Canadian citizens, permanent residents and individuals with an “Alberta-approved” immigration status will be eligible for provincially-funded programs, such as health care, education and other social services.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced her referendum plans in a provincewide television address on Thursday evening.
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Critics have assailed the province’s plan as “weaponizing” the issue of immigration to win votes.
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In an interview with Global News, Bradley Lafortune, executive director of Public Interest Alberta, reacted to the government’s referendum plans by saying, “This is a Trump-style, MAGA government that is doing their best to imitate the current Republicans in the United States.”
Smith announced the referendum plans one day after the executive director of her Calgary office, in a post on social media, railed against Canada’s immigration policies, saying, “unsustainable mass immigration into Canada” fills him “with profound disgust.”
In the post on X, Bruce McAllister also asked,”‘Why import from nations with failed systems when our Judeo-Christian heritage and principles have worked so well here?”
Global News will be livestreaming the premier’s Friday morning press conference online starting at 11:30 MST/13:30 EDT.
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Pharmacists say they’re shouldering a growing share of the Yukon’s health care burden | CBC News
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Pharmacists say they’re taking on a bigger role in day-to-day health care as the Yukon struggles with a shortage of family doctors and long wait times at hospitals and clinics.
Sunjin Han, a fourth-year pharmacy student at the University of Manitoba who recently completed a two-month internship at some Whitehorse pharmacies, said she encountered patients who did not have clear instructions on how to take their prescriptions.
“I noticed a lack of empowerment in terms of Yukoners’ health care,” she said. “I found that a lot of individuals were just missing a lot of information about why they’re taking medications in the first place, not really knowing how to use certain things such as inhalers for asthma.”
The Yukon government has been gradually expanding services pharmacists are allowed to provide. In 2019, it passed new regulations allowing pharmacists to administer vaccines. In 2022, the government made permanent some pandemic-era rules that allow pharmacists to extend prescriptions and issue new prescriptions for some minor conditions, such as urinary tract infections and pinkeye.
Edmund Tan, a pharmacist who owns the two Shoppers Drug Mart locations in Whitehorse, said those changes, combined with the fact that pharmacies tend to be open longer hours than clinics, have led to an increase in people seeking treatment directly from pharmacists.
“We’re certainly seeing an increase in patients coming in that are asking more questions, and us supporting them with prescribing for small things, minor ailments, that’s certainly increasing, and I’m really, really happy to see that grow so that we can help support the burden of primary access,” he said.
But Tan said barriers to pharmacy access remain, particularly for communities outside of Whitehorse, where the vast majority of the territory’s pharmacies are located. That often means pharmacists must provide advice over the phone and mail prescriptions out.
And Tan said the Yukon government can go farther in expanding the range of services pharmacists can provide.
“There’s a lot of areas that currently have more scope than what we currently have in the Yukon,” he said.
“So whether it’s more scope to prescribe or more scope to manage medications, they exist in other provinces and other jurisdictions with a lot of impact on reducing emergency room times, reducing doctor visits, reducing wait times, et cetera. ”
Yukon Health Minister Brad Cathers says the Yukon government is “actively considering” expanding the scope of practice for pharmacists in the territory and says he recently met with pharmacists to discuss the issue. The Yukon Party promised during last fall’s election campaign to work with pharmacists to expand their scope of practice.
Cathers says in other jurisdictions, pharmacists are permitted to treat more minor ailments compared to the Yukon.
“We recognize that there’s a very good case to be made that allowing pharmacists to more fully use their training here in the Yukon would be comparable to what’s done in other jurisdictions,” he said. “And has a very solid case to be made that it can reduce some of the visits to the emergency department and the walk-in clinic as well.”
Cathers said he cannot provide specific examples of how the government would expand the services pharmacists can provide, as it still needs to consult with pharmacists and other stakeholders, including doctors.
Decision to close museums, visitor centres ‘short-sighted,’ say tourism workers | CBC News
People who work in the tourism and museum sectors in Nova Scotia are calling the government’s decision to close three museums and most provincially operated visitor information centres “short-sighted.”
On Thursday, employees at the Fisherman’s Life Museum in Oyster Pond, Prescott House Museum in Starrs Point and the Sutherland Steam Mill Museum in Tatamagouche were informed they are losing their jobs because the three museums will be permanently closed.
The province also confirmed Thursday it is closing the visitor information centres at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, Peggys Cove, Port Hastings and Yarmouth. The centre in Amherst will operate from May to October instead of year-round.
The province says it needs to modernize the museum system, and that maintaining all the sites and buildings had become increasingly difficult. It also said it needs to update how it delivers information to tourists. The cuts come as the provincial government grapples with a $1.4-billion budget deficit.
‘It represented a lot of us’
“It strikes me as extremely short-sighted and it’s such a dangerous precedent that a museum that is in public hands … can just be disregarded and kind of cast to the side,” said Matthew Hughson, who worked as the site supervisor at the Fisherman’s Life Museum for eight years.
Former employees at the museum on the province’s Eastern Shore said closing it will be a blow to tourism in the rural community and to the preservation of the area’s heritage. The museum represented a traditional fishing family’s home, and a way of life that included both hardships and charm.
“It represented a lot of us,” said Amanda Dyke, who worked at the museum for nine summers as a heritage interpreter. “It’s where a lot of us came from — fishing families, rural, living-off-the-land type of people and professions.
“You know, like we love all our beautiful estate museums, they’re great, but how many people come from that or can relate to that?”
Denise Tufts, who was the maintenance and grounds worker for two seasons, said the site was already running on a shoestring budget, and employees sometimes brought supplies from home, such as paint, tools and stationery, to keep it running.
“If you want austerity, Tim Houston, this place is what that was about. This place, this is how people lived,” Tufts said. “I mean, it’s just, it’s really bad optics.”
Dyke said the museum saw visitors from all over the world as well as locals and newcomers to the province.
“It’s sad that it will be ignored. You know, someone who’s just showing up here, they’re probably not going to look through a school textbook and learn about this stuff. They wanted to come see it, experience it,” Dyke said.
The employees said they are worried about what will happen with the artifacts, buildings and properties.
Cost savings
According to the Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage, Nova Scotia’s museums need more than $10 million in repairs and maintenance, and closing the three sites will reduce those costs and “allow us to invest where it matters most,” said a statement from the department.
The estimated labour cost for the three affected museums was about $260,000 per year.
On average, over the past five years, the Fisherman’s Life Museum received 1,466 visitors per year, while Prescott House Museum had 1,247 visitors per year and the Sutherland Steam Mill Museum had 1,035.
The budget for the visitor information centres was more than $1 million per year, plus $200,000 for visitor enumeration.
What will happen with the museums?
It is unclear exactly what will become of the properties and buildings that comprise the museum sites.
“Over the coming months, we will complete the administrative process of closing the sites,” reads a statement from the Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage. “We will then engage with local communities to explore options for future use of the buildings that continue to benefit the community.”
As for the artifacts inside the museums, they will be “managed according to professional museum standards,” the statement said. Some items may be kept within the province’s museum system, while others could be transferred to community organizations or institutions.
Visitor information centres ‘full of people’
Samantha Bambrick owns a hop-on, hop-off transportation and tour service called Alternative Routes Nova Scotia.
She said in the summer, her business received about five calls a day from people who found out about her through staff at the visitor information centre at Peggys Cove.
Bambrick said the visitor centre is needed and well used by tourists.
“It’s full,” she said. “That place is packed morning to evening every day and it’s full of people just asking questions.”
The fact that people go to the centre to ask questions in person is proof that the other options — such as seeking tourism information online — aren’t enough, Bambrick said.
“The reason why they land at the airport and they still don’t know what they’re going to do is because they’re not able to find that information properly. So to have real humans who can sit in front of people and tell them what to do, I think is really important.”
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Spring sitting of P.E.I. legislature delayed by a month | CBC News
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The spring sitting of the P.E.I. Legislature will be prorogued for 30 days, Premier Rob Lantz announced Friday afternoon.
MLAs already knew they would not be returning to Province House for the upcoming spring sitting of the legislature, the start date for which was set for Feb. 24.
Now, the spring sitting is set to return to the George Coles Building on March 24, beginning with a speech from the throne.
“The Speech from the Throne will outline our government’s priorities moving forwards — strengthening our healthcare system, ensuring energy security, improving affordability for Island families, and taking responsible action on land use and protection,” said a written statement attributed to Lantz.
The announcement of the delay follows a busy period in P.E.I. politics, especially for the governing Progressive Conservative Party.
Lantz was selected to be permanent leader of the party at its leadership convention in early February, where he won 53.1 per cent of the vote. Lantz was closely trailed by his only competitor, Mark Ledwell, who won 46.8 per cent of the vote.
He was sworn in as premier for the second time, having previously served as premier and interim PC Party leader for about nine months following Dennis King’s surprise resignation in February 2025. He stepped down from both roles in December so he could run for permanent leadership of the party.
Just a few days after his swearing in, Lantz shuffled his cabinet, renaming some portfolios and adding some new faces to the mix.
At least one of those appointments has drawn some criticism. The P.E.I. Fisherman’s Association has pushed back against the provincial government’s attempts to grant Sidney MacEwen the ability to sit as a cabinet member while also maintaining his lobster fleet.
Stronach’s lawyer accuses complainant of lying about memory lapses in sex assault trial | CBC News
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The lawyer for Frank Stronach accused one of the complainants in his sexual assault case of lying, rejecting her testimony that she couldn’t remember some details of the alleged attack.
“My position is, is that you have regret. That’s what you have going on in your mind as you’ve been conveying your narrative to this court,” Leora Shemesh said as she cross-examined the complainant in a Toronto courtroom on Friday.
“You really do have memories. This whole narrative of, ‘I don’t remember how I got from here to there, and I don’t remember how clothes came off,’ that’s a lie.”
“No, that’s not true,” the woman said.
“I’m going to suggest to you that you absolutely do know exactly how things happened. But you are embarrassed to admit that you have regret,” Shemesh said.
“That’s not true and not the case,” the woman said.
On Thursday, court heard that the woman, now in her 60s, was a university student who had worked for Stronach’s company in the summer of 1983.
The woman told court that she got the job because her father had known Stronach. Near the end of the summer, Stronach asked her to go out for dinner, she said.
During that evening, Stronach invited her to see the view from his apartment at Harbourfront, the woman said. She said she felt quite uncomfortable about the invitation, but thought she should go since he had taken her out to dinner and got her a job.
Once in the apartment, while she was standing at the window looking at the view, Stronach came up from behind, put his arms around her and started fondling her breasts, the woman told court.
She said somehow from there she ended up in the bedroom face down on the bed. The woman said she wasn’t completely naked but Stronach pulled her trousers down, probably to her thighs.
She said Stronach, standing behind her, then raped her.
The 93-year-old founder of auto-parts giant Magna International faces a total of 12 charges, including sexual assault and forcible confinement. Two of the counts, rape and attempted rape, are considered historical charges as they were abolished when the Criminal Code was amended in 1983 to create the offence of sexual assault.
Stronach has denied the allegations and has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Preparatory meeting with Crown
On Thursday, Shemesh focused on the complainant’s past police statements and a preparatory meeting she had with Crown attorneys for the case on Jan. 20, 2026.
That meeting has become an issue in the case. Shemesh, before the trial began, said she would be asking for the charges against her client to be stayed, arguing that some of the complainants may have been coached during preparatory meetings with the Crown.
During cross-examination, Shemesh zeroed in on the phrase “I would have” that the woman had used repeatedly in relaying her story in a June 2024 statement with police.
Shemesh said the woman had never used that phrase during her court testimony on Thursday, though the woman said she thought she used it once during her testimony.
Shemesh suggested it was during that preparatory meeting that the woman learned that “I would have” is not the best phrase to utilize in the court proceeding.
The woman said at no point during that meeting was she ever told how she “should put things.” She said she hadn’t specifically avoided the use of that phrase during her court testimony.
Shemesh also raised how the topic of “omissions” came up in the preparatory meeting. For example, the woman said the Crown told her in that meeting that it was an omission that she didn’t know how she had got to the bedroom in the condo unit.
“So that’s something that is brought to your attention, that there are omissions here, and we need to discuss those omissions,” Shemesh said.
“There was no discussion about the omissions at all,” the woman said. “[The Crown] said, ‘this is an omission.’ And then that was it.”
Shemesh also asked the woman if she agreed there were “portions of time and space that are lost to you.”
The woman agreed, but said there are two categories of problems with memory.
“One is memory where it was a long time ago. And there are other problems of memory where they’re very painful memories, and really, your mind blocks them out.”
The woman did agree, however that she didn’t have a clear recollection of how she got to the bedroom that night, the room itself, if she had any discussions with Stronach or how she was behaving that evening.
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Bloomberg пише, що спалахи пташиного грипу знищили поголів’я та призвели до різкого зростання цін рік тому. Порожні полиці з яйцями у продуктових магазинах були буденним явищем. Покупці платили захмарні ціни, намагаючись перевищити ліміти на одну людину.
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Tax season presents a boom-or-bust test for U.S. auto sales
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DETROIT — The strength of the U.S. automotive industry will face an early test this spring that has nothing to do with cars or trucks.
With tax season starting, industry experts are projecting that some Americans, many of whom have been priced out of the new-vehicle market, will use anticipated higher tax returns to purchase a new or used vehicle.
Extra cash on hand could lend a needed boost to an industry that’s suffering from slowing vehicle sales — or it could reveal continued problems for the automotive industry with inflated prices and consumers still reluctant to spend on big-ticket items.
“Their new tax bill is actually going to be less, and they’re going to be getting more in their tax return. It’s going to be a little bit of a surprise, we think, for a lot of potential buyers out there,” said Cox Automotive senior economist Charlie Chesbrough at a recent auto analyst conference.
The average IRS tax refund is up 10.9% so far this season, compared with the same point in 2025, according to early filing data. As of Feb. 6, the average refund amount was $2,290, compared with $2,065 reported about one year prior.
The increases were expected under tax changes by the Trump administration, including the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed in July. That legislation removed taxes on overtime and tips and allowed eligible taxpayers to deduct up to $10,000 in annual interest paid on loans for new, U.S.-assembled vehicles purchased, among other adjustments.
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Many of the tax changes were made retroactive to January 2025, which means taxpayers may have withheld more than they will ultimately owe.
“Although it’s a bit of an unknown, it feels like it could be really beneficial to vehicle sales, particularly in that sort of Q1-Q2 time frame,” said David Oakley, GlobalData manager of Americas vehicle sales forecasts.
March is historically one of the top months for U.S. vehicle sales, especially for used vehicles. The month has represented 9.1% of annual new vehicle sales on average over the past 12 years, according to Cox, trailing only the month of December at 9.3% of sales.
Many of the recent tax changes also assist middle- and higher-income consumers who may decide to pull ahead a vehicle purchase. The industry saw a similar dynamic during the Covid pandemic when the Trump administration issued many Americans $1,400 stimulus checks.
Back then, though, federal interest rates were near zero compared to the current Federal Reserve funds rate of 3.5% to 3.75%, and the inventory of new vehicles was low. Now, with higher borrowing costs, but improved inventory, the equation could be different.
More buyers are agreeing to longer-term loans amid higher financing costs and prices. Putting down extra cash can help lower monthly payments, which Carmax’s Edmunds reports reached a record of $772 per month for new vehicles during the fourth quarter.
The average transaction price for new vehicles in the U.S. was hovering around $50,000 toward the end of last year, up 30% from the start of 2020, according to Cox.
“What we don’t know is with consumer finance so stressed already, is that extra money already spent? Whether that’s going to be in the pockets. It’s a really mixed bag out there,” Chesbrough said.
Consumers could choose to use higher tax returns to pay off credit card debt — which nationally stands at a record level of $1.28 trillion, according to a report last week by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — or replenish their savings after a period of persistent inflation.
U.S. consumer confidence fell to 84.5 in January, the lowest level since May 2014, driven by intense anxiety over high prices and a weakening labor market.
“It’s only confident people, people who feel comfortable about their economic fortunes of the economy of the United States, that are going to be interested in taking out a $40,000 or $50,000 auto loan,” Chesbrough said. “It’s a very difficult situation right now.”
— CNBC’s Kate Dore contributed to this report.
TTC streetcar driver injured after collision near Trinity Bellwoods Park
A streetcar driver was injured after a collision with another vehicle near Trinity Bellwoods Park.
Toronto police were called to Dundas Street West and Beatrice Street around 9:30 a.m. for reports of a crash between a TTC streetcar and a truck.
The streetcar driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. The other driver remained on the scene. No other injuries were reported.
Delays were reported in the area as drivers were being redirected away from the collision, but normal traffic has resumed.
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Trump’s sweeping tariffs
Friday’s rejection is the first major piece of Trump’s agenda to come before the Supreme Court
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs on Friday.
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The 6-3 decision strikes down tariffs imposed under the emergency powers law, which also includes reciprocal tariffs that Trump imposed on just about every country in the world.
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Justices John Roberts, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson were the majority vote.
The majority found that the Constitution “very clearly” gives Congress the power to impose taxes, which include tariffs.
“The Framers did not vest any part of the taxing power in the Executive Branch,” Roberts wrote.
Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh dissented.
“The tariffs at issue here may or may not be wise policy. But as a matter of text, history, and precedent, they are clearly lawful,” Kavanaugh wrote in the dissent.
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Friday’s rejection is the first major piece of Trump’s agenda to come before the Supreme Court, which the president himself helped shape with three conservative members during his first term.
Decision doesn’t stop levying duties
Friday’s Supreme Court ruling doesn’t stop Trump from imposing duties under other laws.
While those have more limitations on the speed and severity of the president’s actions, administration officials expect to keep the tariff framework in place under other authorities.
The ruling comes despite a series of short-term wins on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket that have allowed Trump to flex his executive power on issues that range from high-profile firings to funding cuts at a federal level.
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Trump has been vocal about the case, stating anyone ruling against him would be an economic blow to the U.S. Polling has found tariffs aren’t popular with the general public amid wider concern about affordability.
Congress has the power to levy tariffs thanks to the Constitution. However, the Trump administration cites a 1977 law that allows the president to regulate importation during an emergency, which also allows him to set tariffs.
Past presidents have used the law to impose sanctions, but Trump is the first to invoke it for import taxes.
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$133M collected from tariffs
In April 25, Trump imposed what he deemed reciprocal tariffs on most countries in response to trade deficits he said were a national emergency. Those tariffs came after he levied taxes on Canada, China and Mexico to address what he deemed a drug trafficking emergency.
The impact on the economy because of Trump’s tariffs is estimated at $3 trillion of the next 10 years, the Congressional Budget Office stated.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has collected more than $133 million from tariffs Trump imposed under the emergency powers law, according to federal data in December.
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Canada’s Sidney Crosby out of Olympic semifinal | Globalnews.ca
Canada will have to win without captain Sidney Crosby to reach the Olympic gold-medal game.
The Pittsburgh Penguins superstar was scratched from Canada’s lineup with a lower-body injury ahead of its men’s hockey semifinal Friday against Finland at the Milan Cortina Games.
Connor McDavid will serve as captain in Crosby’s absence.
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Crosby exited Canada’s nail-biting overtime win over Czechia in the quarterfinals after his right leg crumpled as he braced for a neutral-zone hit from bruising defenceman Radko Gudas in the second period.
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The two-time Olympic gold medalist played another 13 seconds before Gudas and Czech forward Martin Necas sandwiched him along the boards. One stride later, he circled back to the bench in noticeable discomfort before limping down the tunnel.
The United States and Slovakia face off in the other semifinal later Friday at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena. The bronze-medal game is scheduled for Saturday, followed by Sunday’s matchup for gold.
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Volume V, Microfiche Supplement, American Republics Digital Edition – United States Department of State
The Department of State released today the newly digitized edition of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Volume V, Microfiche Supplement, American Republics.
This publication supplemented the print volume of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Volume V, American Republics. From 1993 to 1998, the Foreign Relations series published 13 microfiche supplements with facsimiles of additional documents expanding upon issues addressed in corresponding print volumes in the Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy subseries that could not be printed due to space limitations. The Office of the Historian is digitizing these microfiche supplements and incorporating the digital editions into its full-text searchable and date-sortable online Foreign Relations portal.
This volume is available online and as a free eBook on the Office of the Historian website at https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v05mSupp. For further information, contact the Office of the Historian at history@state.gov.