By Jim Bronskill The Canadian Press Posted October 16, 2024 7:51 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is slated to testify Wednesday as a federal inquiry into foreign interference finishes the latest phase of its work. The commission of inquiry is looking at the ability…
Tube workers in London will strike next month in a dispute over pay, two unions have announced. The strikes will take place from 1 to 16 November after members of both Aslef, the train drivers’ union, and the RMT, representing most other Tube workers, rejected a pay offer from Transport for London (TfL). London Underground…
Getty Images Chancellor Rachel Reeves will deliver Labour’s first Budget on Wednesday 30 October. She has already warned that it will involve “difficult decisions” on tax, spending and benefits. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC the “tough” Budget will “focus on rebuilding our country”. What is the Budget? Each year, the chancellor of…
Real estate giant Rightmove is calling on Rachel Reeves to give landlords new tax relief as an incentive to stay in the market, as London rents continue going through the roof. The Chancellor is being warned that the cost of living crisis for people in the capital will hit breaking point unless she devises a…
The Archbishop of Canterbury has called the idea of assisted dying “dangerous” and suggested it would lead to a “slippery slope” where more people would feel compelled to have their life ended medically. The head of the Church of England was speaking with the BBC ahead of the first reading in parliament of a bill…
Princeville, North Carolina — On a single-lane road in Eastern North Carolina, surrounded by farmland, the congregation at Mark Chapel Baptist Church listens to a sermon on faith — and the importance of their vote as part of the “Black Belt,” a stretch of majority-Black congressional districts in the South. The 1st Congressional District hasn’t…
Former President Donald Trump says he’s not commenting on the question of whether he’s spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin since he left office, after journalist Bob Woodward reported in his new book that the former president has had as many as seven conversations with the Russian leader. At the Economic Club of Chicago Tuesday,…
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is looking to make tax rises and spending cuts to the value of £40bn in this month’s Budget, government sources have told the BBC. At a political cabinet meeting this morning, Reeves told ministers that filling the “£22bn black hole inheritance from the previous government” would only be enough “to keep public…
This is wonderful news I never thought I’d be around to hear, that Parliament is going to vote on a Bill to legalise assisted dying. Of course there will be very careful precautions. We must protect vulnerable people. But it means that maybe, just maybe, terminally ill people like me will be allowed to say,…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office intervened in 2019 to keep Han Dong off a House of Commons committee probing Canada’s relations with China, according to testimony from Trudeau’s most senior staff. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) briefed security-cleared Liberal officials during the 2019 election about “irregularities” related to Dong’s nomination as the party’s candidate…
