President Zelensky has condemned a “deliberate” attack on Ukraine’s “peaceful city” of Kostyantynivka.
At least 17 people, including a child, were killed in the blast, which took place on a busy market street in the middle of the day – a rarity.
Kostyantynivka, in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, is near the front line.
Not since Pierre Trudeau and Marc Lalonde (the cabinet minister who imposed the National Energy Program on the west) have there been two so divisive politicians in Canada as Justin Trudeau and his Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault.
ATLANTA (AP) — Sixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against a planned police and firefighter training facility in the Atlanta area that critics call “Cop City.”
In the sweeping indictment released Tuesday, Republican Attorney General Chris Carr alleged the defendants are “militant anarchists” who supported a violent movement that prosecutors trace to the widespread 2020 racial justice protests.
The Aug. 29 indictment is the latest application of the state’s anti-racketeering law, also known as a RICO law, and comes just weeks after the Fulton County prosecutor used the statute to charge former President Donald Trump and 18 other defendants.
Contentious ‘made-in-Toronto sales tax’ goes before council
… Debate about the municipal sales tax could be one of the most contentious parts of the package proposed by staff.
Some have already spoken out against the measure, including Councillor James Pasternak, who represents York Centre, Ward 6. He said the sales tax will hurt people at a time when many are struggling with the increasing cost of living.
“A made-in-Toronto sales tax, it just won’t work,” he said. “People will shop elsewhere, they will leave our jurisdiction and shop at retail stores outside of Toronto.”
I hope they do approve the sales tax, there may be hope of a resurrection once the city is ground into progressive dust.
If you’ve been reading any news about wildfires this summer — from Canada to Europe to Maui — you will surely get the impression that they are mostly the result of climate change.
Around 800,000 international students currently call Canada home, with thousands more expected to come with every new academic year.
As students head back to school this fall, the focus is increasing on whose responsibility it is to house them, and what the growing numbers mean for Canada’s housing crisis.
For something to have gotten this out of hand makes me suspect a “scam” benefitting the Liberal Party.
It is not the tax payers job. Blame the twits in Ottawa send the students back to their homes.
A manhunt has been launched for a soldier suspected of terror offences who escaped from prison on Wednesday morning.
Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, was awaiting trial after being accused of leaving fake bombs at a military base.
He escaped from HMP Wandsworth, London, and is thought to still be in the city.
OTTAWA – The Bank of Canada held its key interest rate steady at five per cent today, citing recent evidence that suggests the economy is weakening.
The central bank says it decided not to raise its key rate given demand in the economy is slowing and previous rate hikes need more time to take effect.
Civil servants have been forced to freeze funding worth more than £2 million to a Birmingham mosque described as “infamous” due to a history of alleged extremism.
The £2.2 million grant from the Department of Culture’s Youth Investment Fund was set to go towards a youth facility at the Green Lane Masjid and Community Centre. This was withheld after a video of a preacher discussing the stoning of women went viral on social media.
Do they never learn?
According to the head of the Ontario Real Estate Association, the province’s housing market is rife with dirty money.
About $30-billion worth of ill-gotten gains has been laundered through Ontario real estate transactions over a 10-year period, according to a money laundering inquiry by the British Columbia government.
Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, was sentenced on Tuesday to 22 years in prison for the central role he played in organizing a gang of his pro-Trump followers to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power.
Mr. Tarrio’s sentence, stemming from his conviction this spring on charges of seditious conspiracy, was the most severe penalty handed down so far to any of the more than 1,100 people charged in connection with the Capitol attack — and was likely to remain that way, given that no other defendants currently face accusations as serious as the ones he did.
Recent data from Statistics Canada show that, despite higher fuel taxes and billions of dollars of subsidies, government attempts to shift commuters from personal vehicles to mass transit have largely failed. Yet planners stubbornly continue to act on projections this shift is occurring, pouring more public funds into mass transit while closing traffic lanes and erecting barriers explicitly designed to strangle traffic flows. Endless traffic jams encourage drivers and businesses to leave city cores and commute longer distances in the suburbs, the very opposite of what planners say they want. Governments need to respond to how Canadians actually commute, or risk further alienating themselves from taxpayers and commuters.
Can’t understand why people aren’t buying in. Rolling to work in a homeless shelter sounds swell.
Police have warned of a garden gnome scam that could leave homeowners at risk of burglary.
North Wales Police said it was aware of “Christmas gnomes” being left in people’s front gardens in Flintshire.
They warned the behaviour was sometimes used by thieves as a “calling card” method by thieves and other criminals to identify people’s schedules and time spent at home.
History arrived quietly in a most peculiar setting on Monday afternoon, as cricket entered a new era with Danielle McGahey’s debut for Canada’s Twenty20 women’s national team.
McGahey became the first transgender player to appear in an official international match, at the ICC T20 Americas Qualifier for next year’s World Cup, and if it was big news around the cricket world, it barely made a splash at Woodley Park’s cricket grounds in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley.
A woman complaining of chronic pain discovered that she had a surgical tool the size of a dinner plate inside her abdomen more than a year after delivering her baby via cesarean section, health officials said.
An extra large Alexis retractor, or AWR — a device used to draw back the edges of a wound during surgery that can measure 6 inches in diameter — was left inside the mother’s body after the birth of her baby at Auckland City Hospital in 2020, according to a report by New Zealand’s Health and Disability commissioner.
