Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he would be prepared to leave the EU without a deal if no further negotiation on a withdrawal agreement are successful. Writing for ITV, Mr Peston said officials in Brussels and in other European capitals held the belief that MPs would not be able to stop Mr Johnson if […]
Véronique Hivon announced Tuesday that she will not run in the upcoming Parti Quebecois (PQ) leadership race. Hivon has been MNA for Joliette since 2008 and was deputy leader with Jean-François Lisée during the 2018 election campaign, but she says her family needs her now more than ever, although she wouldn’t specify in what way. […]
EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, whose rhetoric about an immigrant “invasion” has alienated many in the predominantly Hispanic city of El Paso, will visit the grieving Texas border town on Wednesday after a gun massacre that killed 22 people. El Paso has been on the front lines of the Trump administration’s […]
The City of Guelph says they want to hear from residents as they are in the process of updating their transportation master plan. In a post on their website, the city said officials are exploring transportation options to “make Guelph move better in every way.” As part of the process, the city’s general manager of […]
Disgraced former Labour MP Fiona Onasanya has been struck off as a solicitor after lying to avoid a speeding conviction. The 35-year-old, who worked in commercial property law before she was elected to parliament in 2017, was jailed for perverting the course of justice last year, claiming someone else was driving her car. A number […]
Speaking on BBC Newsnight, alongside the Financial Time’s Sebastian Payne and The Guardian’s Polly Toynbee, the panel were discussing what host Emily Maitlis described as a battle between two Dominics. Dominic Cummmings, the Vote Leave mastermind is part of Mr Johnson’s team and Dominic Grieve may attempt to bring down his own government to prevent […]
Downing Street has said Boris Johnson wants to negotiate a new Brexit deal “with the greatest energy”, amid reports EU leaders have accepted the UK is going to leave without an agreement. Brussels is said to be operating on a “working hypothesis of no deal” after accepting the prime minister “isn’t bluffing” about crashing out […]
Back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, which left 31 people dead and dozens more wounded, prompted U.S. President Donald Trump and other Republican policymakers to place the blame on a variety of issues — including the claim that gun violence and video games are linked. It’s a frequently cited correlation, and one that many […]
The president of Fine Gael’s youth wing has been criticised for attending a right-wing conservative youth conference in the US last week. Young Fine Gael (YFG) president Killian Foley-Walsh, a member of Fine Gael’s ruling national executive, attended the Young America’s Foundation (YAF) conference in Washington DC last week along with YFG’s social media officer […]
J. D. Scholten, a Democrat who nearly toppled Representative Steve King of Iowa in a heavily Republican district in 2018, announced on Monday that he would run again for the seat in 2020. His decision sets up a possible rematch with Mr. King, whose history of racist remarks has made him a pariah among Republican […]