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By n The Canadian Pressn The Canadian Press Posted July 2, 2025 3:59 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Kevin Pillar is hanging up his cleats. The former Toronto Blue Jays centre-fielder announced his retirement Wednesday after 13 seasons in Major League Baseball. Pillar became a Blue Jays fan…
“The PM must rediscover the ruthlessness he demonstrated before the election when he purged Labour’s candidates list of Left-wingers, and when he suspended seven MPs for opposing his plan to keep the two-child benefit cap. He should make it clear that he is prepared to turn the vote on the benefits bill into one of…
By DAN WOODLAND Published: 15:50 EDT, 19 June 2025 | Updated: 16:45 EDT, 19 June 2025 Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft has resigned as a Government whip over the party’s welfare proposals. Ms Foxcroft, who was shadow disability minister between 2020 and 2024, said in a letter to the Prime Minister she could not vote ‘for…
Five million pensioners face paying extra tax to claw back their winter fuel allowance under Labour’s humiliating climbdown, it was claimed today. A complicated solution being mooted to defuse fury at Labour slashing the benefit – worth up to £300 – would see it handed to all the older generation this season. However, around half…
The Government has pledged £1.5 billion as part of the strategic defence review into at least six munitions and energetics factories.
Along her journey towards understanding Vancouver’s crows, psychology professor Suzanne MacDonald says she made a friend. It’s a crow that brings her gifts after she set up a bird feeder at her home in the neighbourhood of Kitsilano. Once, it was a barnacle-covered shell, which MacDonald treasures. Other times, it was “bits of garbage” that…
Darren Jones has said that winter fuel payments will ‘still be targeted to those that need it the most’.
The first train to be brought back into public ownership under Labour was (metaphorically) derailed today, turning the major moment into a bit of damp squib. South Western Railway (SWR) officially came under public ownership at around 2am on Sunday morning as part of the government’s promise to create “better services”. The first service of…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 21, 2025 3:09 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size British Columbia’s main outpatient lab services provider says it has reached a deal with the union representing about 1,200 striking workers across the province. LifeLabs says in a statement that it and the…
Dylan Tippetts has resigned from Labour and moved to the Lib Dems (Supplied) A trans councillor who quit the Labour Party after accusing the party of “throwing trans people under the bus” has joined the Liberal Democrats, PinkNews can exclusively reveal. Dylan Tippetts, who is Plymouth’s first out trans councillor and has represented the Compton ward…
