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Mayor Tory pledges crackdown to curb pedestrian, cyclist deaths in Toronto

Toronto Mayor John Tory has pledged to lower speed limits and crack down on scofflaw motorists in an effort to cut down on the number of pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in the city. Speaking at a business lunch on Wednesday, the mayor called last year’s 41 pedestrian deaths unacceptable and frequently preventable. “We simply must […]

Labour granted three-hour emergency debate over Brexit

Labour has been granted an immediate three-hour emergency debate over Brexit . The debate – 9 days before the UK is scheduled to leave – was requested after Theresa May rowed back on plans to delay Brexit. The Prime Minister today formally asked the EU for a delay of just three months, and insisted she […]

Bowman threatens to vote against collecting school taxes for Province

The city of Winnipeg will pass its 2019 budget Wednesday, but it’s not without some controversy. The ongoing funding feud between city and province has reared its head once again, this time over the issue of school taxes. Winnipeg mayor Brian Bowman told 680 CJOB that there are concerns about the province’s reduction in support […]

U.S. investigators sought ex-Trump lawyer Cohen's emails months before raids

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. investigators sought warrants to read Michael Cohen’s emails in July 2017, nine months before the FBI raided the home and office of President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, according to documents made public on Tuesday. The requests were made six months into Trump’s presidency. Emails were sought by Special Counsel […]

U.S. Midwest's catastrophic floods cause widespread damage

BROWNVILLE, Neb. (Reuters) – Severe flooding caused by rainfall and melting snow devastated farms and towns in Nebraska and Iowa on Tuesday, leaving at least four people dead and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, with waters yet to crest in parts of the region for several days. The floods inundated stretches of […]

‘You need a sense of humour’: EU left ‘really exhausted’ by Brexit ‘crisis’

Other European Union countries are becoming “really exhausted” by Brexit as the UK’s divorce from the bloc gets “more foggy”. Politicians across the continent have expressed their exasperation following the latest turbulence at Westminster, where Prime Minister Theresa May has been blocked from holding a third vote on her Brexit deal unless it is “substantially” […]