After a month-long strike, Canada Post is continuing to ramp up its operations and the postal service expects that most of its backlog of deliveries will be cleared before Christmas. Canada Post workers returned to the job on Tuesday after they were ordered by the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to end the countrywide strike….
If there’s an art to lying, the PM hasn’t bothered to master it. He lies and lies again, and there’s no art in it at all. He just says whatever suits him at the time. I’ve been running through the PM Keir Starmer‘s broken promises, u-turns and pledges, and it’s exhausting. If I tried listing…
Pensioners have until the end of Saturday to apply for benefits which could unlock access to the winter fuel payment, or risk missing out on up to £300. It has been switched to a means-tested benefit including for those on pension credit, but official estimates suggest there are 760,000 households who do not claim pension…
This is awkward for Downing Street to say the least. The person chosen by the British government to be the keystone in the most important of bilateral relationships is, according to one of the incoming president’s close aides, a “complete moron”. Chris LaCivita is a central character in Trump’s orbit. He managed Trump‘s election victory…
Update, 6:13 p.m.: The U.S. government looked poised to avoid a prolonged government shutdown after the House of Representatives on Friday voted to approve a funding bill just hours before a midnight deadline. The bill is expected to pass in the Senate before heading to President Biden’s desk for his signature. As the fight over a federal spending…
Washington — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned Friday that his agency could suffer “serious” consequences if Congress failed to pass legislation funding federal agencies and avert a government shutdown. The warning came before the House passed a last-minute stopgap funding bill with bipartisan support Friday night, sending it to the Senate ahead of the…
Getty Images The government is facing a backlash after it rejected compensation for women hit by changes to the state pension age. In opposition, senior Labour figures had been vocal supporters of the Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) campaign, which argues 3.6 million women born in the 1950s were not properly informed of the…
Washington — The Senate on Friday confirmed two more of President Biden’s nominees to the federal judiciary on Friday, giving him a total of 235 since he took office, surpassing the number of judges approved for lifetime appointment during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term. The confirmation of Benjamin Cheeks to the federal district court in Southern…
Canada’s former ambassador to the United States says he’s confident Ottawa can avoid the worst of the tariff threats proposed by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, but that Canada won’t be completely unscathed. Frank McKenna, who is now deputy chair at TD Securities, said he believes the incoming president is looking to use money from tariffs…
Washington — The Senate on Friday confirmed President Biden’s 234th nominee to the federal judiciary, matching the number of judges approved for lifetime appointment to the nation’s courts during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term. The confirmation of Benjamin Cheeks to the federal district court in Southern California by a 49 to 47 vote led Mr….
