Stacey Abrams’s defeat in the Georgia governor’s race was only a few weeks old when she arrived in New York in December to meet with campaign donors and political allies. At a reception in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, a supporter asked her what she would do next. Ms. Abrams, attendees recalled, said she was undecided, except […]
RICHMOND, Va. — Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia, abandoned by allies in the Democratic Party and besieged by demands that he resign, met with his cabinet Monday morning as state legislators returned to a Capitol thrown into chaos by the governor’s insistence on staying in office despite revelations that a photograph showing people in blackface […]
The Democratic Party’s presidential hopefuls differ on their approach to policy issues such as income inequality and climate change, but on one thing there is almost uniform agreement: They’re all very, very sorry. The most recent high-profile mea culpa came Thursday when Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts apologized for her controversial decision to take a […]
A no-deal Brexit could end up unleashing a plague of rats as waste exports are halted and our landfills overflow. Environment Secretary Michael Gove wrote to the European Energy and Environment subcommittee to set out planning for what would happen in the event of us crashing out of the bloc on March 29. And his […]
The Tories will not get away with shifting blame for cutting over-75s’, free TV licences, MPs were told. Grilling Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright, Shadow Minister Steve Reed told a meeting: “He’s not going to get away with devolving the blame for his cuts. “More than two million over-75-year-olds live alone and the Campaign to End […]
Bumbling Boris Johnson has trashed his own Brexit plans – dumping a load of paperwork in a petrol station bin. The calamitous Conservative stuffed 70 pages of parliamentary work in the rubbish container after pulling up with a passenger, thought to be new love Carrie Symonds, 30. But he was in such a rush that […]
Guelph police are asking for a nearly $2 million increase to their annual operating budget. The request makes up most of the city’s local boards and shared services budget for 2019 that will be voted on by councillors on March 5. The Guelph Police Services Board presented a $42,269,900 revised budget in January after finding […]
Canada and its Lima Group allies will use their Monday meeting in Ottawa to find new ways – including financial – to support the Venezuelan opposition and ease the refugee crisis in neighbouring Brazil and Colombia. The agenda for the gathering of foreign ministers from more than a dozen of Canada’s Western Hemisphere allies was […]
WASHINGTON — The United States is suspending one of the last major nuclear arms control treaties with Russia after heated conversations between the two powers recently failed to resolve a long-running accusation that Moscow is violating the Reagan-era treaty. In remarks scheduled for Friday morning, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was expected to cast the […]
Health Minister Simon Harris has moved to shift the blame for the spiralling costs of the National Children’s Hospital (NCH). The escalating costs have sparked a massive blame game, leading to accusations that Mr Harris and his predecessor as health minister, Leo Varadkar, are “running for cover”. The Government has now indicated that individuals involved […]