Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump‘s former personal lawyer, said on Thursday he paid a firm to manipulate online polling data “at the direction of and for the sole benefit of” Trump. The Wall Street Journal reported that Cohen had paid the data firm RedFinch Solutions to manipulate two public opinion polls in favor of Trump before the 2016 […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio introduced a bill on Wednesday aimed at giving Americans some control over information that big, online companies like Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google collect on their location, personal preferences, job history or biometric data like fingerprints. Despite divisions in Congress, lawmakers from both parties have criticized the […]
Theresa May is no Albert Einstein. Is she was, she’d know the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. It is clear from Prime Minister’s Questions that the stubborn, obstinate, pig-headed humiliated May’s Brexit Plan B is no such thing. It is fundamentally her decisively rejected […]
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Wednesday narrowly staved off an effort by Democrats to deal the Trump administration’s Russia sanctions policy an embarrassing rebuke. Eleven Republicans joined Democrats in a vote to enforce sanctions against the corporate empire of an influential ally of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, but the effort fell three votes […]
Marion Little, who was involved with the 2015 campaign for Conservative MP for South Thanet Craig Mackinlay, was handed a fine and a suspended sentence last week. Sky News has obtained an email sent to Conservative MPs explaining how they can donate to a fund to provide Ms Little with a “substantial present so that […]
An Alberta United Conservative member is cleaning up after rocks were thrown through the windows of his constituency office in an act he says was partly to blame on inflamed NDP rhetoric. Dave Hanson says sometime Tuesday night large rocks shattered the windows of his office in St. Paul, northeast of Edmonton. No one was […]
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have presented to city council, trying to generate excitement about a bid to host the Grey Cup in 2020. Team owner Bob Young says projections are that 20,000 to 30,000 visitors would be drawn to the city for the CFL’s championship game, contributing to an economic impact of $100 million. Tiger-Cats’ president […]
There’s nothing quite so comical as a seismic moment in history that leaves the landscape looking exactly the same. Because the long-demanded "meaningful vote" Parliament had last night has managed the momentous change of putting us in precisely the same position as before, with the same problems and the same Prime Minister who’s been cocking […]
By Philip Whiteside, news reporter Despite sweeping to victory in her leadership election, Theresa May has faced challenge after challenge as she has wrestled with the near-impossible political task of delivering Brexit. Here we look at her highest and lowest moments since entering Number 10 in 2016. 1. Winning leadership of the Conservative Party and […]
The B.C. government is requiring all British Columbians who live in an area with the speculation and vacancy tax to opt out of the tax. The provincial government announced on Tuesday that all people who own residential property in the taxable areas will receive a letter with clear instructions for how to complete a declaration […]