The UK ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch, was tasked with compiling a briefing note on Donald Trump’s personality and leadership style just a few months after he became president. Below are some of the highlights of that leaked memo that could prove embarrassing for the Foreign Office. On Trump’s personality “For a man […]
A music festival in Detroit that was charging double fees for white attendees is reversing course after a backlash that drew national attention. Tickets for Afrofuture Fest were $40 (£32) for white people and $20 for “people of colour” – a term used in the US for racial minorities. The disparity caused one performer to […]
Guelph police say a six-year-old girl is safe after she reportedly wandered away from her home in the middle of the night on Saturday. Concerned residents in the city’s east end called police at around 2:30 a.m. after the child was spotted walking alone in the area. Police said it was discovered that the girl […]
NEW YORK (REUTERS) – American financier Jeffrey Epstein was charged with sex trafficking on Monday (July 8), as prosecutors accused him of luring dozens of girls as young as 14 to his homes in New York and Florida and paying them for sex acts. An indictment unsealed in a federal court in Manhattan said Epstein, […]
Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein has been charged with sex trafficking. The hedge fund manager was also charged with one count of sex trafficking conspiracy. Epstein, 66, was arrested on Saturday in New York on charges relating to claims dating back to the 2000s. The charges faced by the American, who once counted Bill Clinton, Donald […]
If you try to use Medicare Advantage, figuring out which doctors are available (and where) can be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible. Medicare Advantage is the government-subsidized, private plan alternative to the traditional public Medicare program. It has had strong enrollment growth for years. That growth has received a boost from the Trump administration, which […]
CARACAS (AFP) – Dialogue between Venezuela’s opposition and President Nicolas Maduro’s government will resume in Barbados, self-declared interim president Juan Guaido said on Sunday (July 7), after previous negotiations in Norway petered out. “In response to the mediation of the Kingdom of Norway (the opposition) will attend a meeting with representatives of the usurper regime […]
Jeffery Epstein, a billionaire financier and former friend of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, has been charged with sex trafficking, according to reports in the US. Epstein (66) was arrested by FBI officers on Saturday, the New York Police Department confirmed. He was apprehended when his private jet landed at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey […]
Environment Canada issued a weather advisory Sunday afternoon warning that conditions are favourable for the development of funnel clouds. The advisory was issued at 3:51 p.m. Sunday and includes Edmonton, St. Albert and Sherwood Park. The special weather advisory also includes: Brazeau County near Drayton Valley and Breton County of Wetaskiwin near Alder Flats and […]
Hundreds of marchers and revellers decked in rainbows, feathers and sequins descended on downtown Victoria Sunday for the annual Victoria Pride Parade. The parade, which made its way down Pandora and Government streets to MacDonald Park in James Bay, marked the end of the capital’s Pride Week, with dozens of floats and groups marching to […]