The federal ethics watchdog has dismissed Conservative allegations of conflict of interest involving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chief of staff and her husband. Ethics commissioner Mario Dion says the allegations are “speculative” and do not provide “a factual basis to support the belief that a contravention” of the Conflict of Interest Act may have occurred. […]
An officer who was wounded during the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, sent an email Tuesday to more than 1,000 of his colleagues criticizing Mayor Greg Fischer and others while defending his actions during the botched police raid. In the six-paragraph email, Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly apologized to his fellow officers and their […]
When Bill de Blasio first ran for mayor in 2013, he promised that under his administration New York City police officers would patrol residents less aggressively than in the past, especially in predominately Black and Hispanic neighborhoods. Five years later, with the help of the police, the City Council and the city’s district attorneys, Mr. […]
OTTAWA (AFP) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will lay out on Wednesday (Sept 23) a new post-pandemic direction for Canada that will test his minority government’s support in parliament in the coming weeks. Trudeau had hinted his so-called throne speech would herald grand New Deal-style reforms, with a focus on implementing climate measures and […]
OTTAWA (AFP) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will lay out on Wednesday (Sept 23) a new post-pandemic direction for Canada that will test his minority government’s support in parliament in the coming weeks. Trudeau had hinted his so-called throne speech would herald grand New Deal-style reforms, with a focus on implementing climate measures and […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday (Sept 22) that he said would ban the military, government contractors and federal grantees from some diversity training. The lengthy order says it forbids “divisive concepts,” including teaching that the United States is “fundamentally racist or sexist” or that any individual bears […]
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Deadly blazes raging across the western United States have again destroyed thousands of homes nestled in forested areas this year – with months of the fire season still to come in a region perilously exposed to climate change. With many insurers now refusing or charging exorbitant rates to cover at-risk houses, […]
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Deadly blazes raging across the western United States have again destroyed thousands of homes nestled in forested areas this year – with months of the fire season still to come in a region perilously exposed to climate change. With many insurers now refusing or charging exorbitant rates to cover at-risk houses, […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – US federal law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies on Tuesday (Sept 22) warned that “foreign actors” will likely try to discredit the November presidential election by taking advantage of the slow counting of mail-in ballots. Americans are expected to submit mail-in ballots in record numbers for the Nov 3 contest between President Donald […]
The death of a warrior of the law – the seemingly indomitable United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – on Friday at 87, after a long battle with cancer, has brought the core agenda of American conservatives within tantalising reach, raising the stakes in the upcoming election. The sudden vacancy she left is […]