A Surrey councillor wants to see more shelter space for the homeless and in particular for the elderly. Brenda Locke said Surrey desperately needs it, the city has less than 50 emergency weather beds and could use between 130 to 150. “I don’t know why it isn’t easier to open some of the city’s resources,” […]
Jeremy Hunt landed in Singapore today just days after hailing the low-tax economy as a potential role model for post-Brexit Britain. On a three-day visit to Asia, the Foreign Secretary will claim the UK’s history and geography gives it the chance to be an "invisible chain" linking democracies across the world. Despite Brexit, Mr Hunt […]
Mitt Romney, the former Republican presidential candidate and incoming U.S. senator from Utah, sharply criticized President Donald Trump and suggested the U.S. leader had caused dismay around the world. In a Washington Post essay published on Tuesday evening, Romney criticized a number of Trump’s actions in December. “The appointment of senior persons of lesser experience, […]
A former Calgary city councillor said in a Facebook post on Monday that he will no longer be running as an NDP candidate in the upcoming Alberta provincial election. “I am no longer confident that I can be the candidate nor the MLA people deserve,” Brian Pincott said on his social media page on Monday. The […]
In the middle of his crowded dinner in Buenos Aires with President Xi Jinping of China, President Trump leaned across the table, pointed to Robert Lighthizer, the United States trade representative whose skepticism of China runs deep, and declared, “That’s my negotiator!” He then turned to Peter Navarro, his even more hawkish trade adviser, adding, […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the House of Representatives are planning a vote on Thursday on a funding package to end the 10-day-old partial U.S. government shutdown without providing the $5 billion President Donald Trump has demanded for a U.S.-Mexico border wall. The planned vote sets up a Democratic showdown with Trump’s fellow Republicans on […]
House Democrats are introducing a package of bills Monday that would re-open the federal government without approving money for U.S. President Donald Trump’s border wall. The House is preparing to vote as soon as the new Congress convenes Thursday, as one of the first acts after Democrats take control, according to an aide who was […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the House of Representatives are planning a vote on Thursday on a funding package to end the 10-day-old partial U.S. government shutdown without providing the $5 billion President Donald Trump has demanded for a U.S.-Mexico border wall. The two-part package will include a bill to keep funding for the Department […]
SINGAPORE – Singapore’s economy grew by 3.3 per cent in 2018, close to 2017’s growth which was 3.5 per cent, and above expectations, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in his New Year Message. He said the economy is expected to grow by between 1.5 per cent and 3.5 per cent in 2019, but warned […]
Predictions may be a mug’s game in an era of political turmoil…but they’re also irresistible. So here Mystic Mag peers into his crystal ball to try and make sense of 2019. The only certainty is that the next year will be as uncertain as the past three have proved. Theresa May’s Blackmail Brexit The corpse […]