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news, local-news, Mayor of Brampton, Ont., Rick Finn said investigators “were vindicated” on Tuesday when they exonerated six city employees for their role in alleged federal kickbacks. “I stand by them, the councillors, all…
In the final days before April’s elections, the new U.S. Olympic Committee had an urgent task: Pick a host city for the 2024 Olympics, which officials were confident would fall into their lap. It…
Here in the United States, child poverty rates are at the highest rate since World War II, surpassing the Depression-era minimum wage, and mounting housing, health care and food insecurity. Between 2012 and 2016,…
• Springbok ‘could have taken that knee from Dan Gilmore’ • Puma F1 announces retail deal with Nissan Francois Hougaard has described himself as a ‘troubled boy’ but he won’t give up after losing…
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Emily Beech and Mike Murphy of the anti-discrimination firm Conduit offered their help to Pinterest after a complaint. Pinterest has agreed to settle discrimination claims brought by the…
What to give your favorite book fan on their first and last holidays together? Recapture the magic of libraries with your own membership to your favorite local institution. No, this isn’t a scam: It’s…
Afghanistan’s football team has been starved of support for 12 years In 2001, in the aftermath of 9/11, the Afghan national football team won the AFC U23 Championship in Singapore, marking their first final….
Canada’s leading pediatrician says she’s hopeful vaccination rates will rise with better response to measles vaccinations after fewer than 300 cases of the disease were reported. Toronto’s top doctor, Dr. Theresa Tam, told “Fox…
A man drove into a crowd at a Little League game in Tyler, Texas on Tuesday evening, killing an off-duty police officer and injuring two others, local officials said. The 24-year-old off-duty Officer Edward…
Heather Scoffield is the author of “The Flash Crash of 2008” and a fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Ottawa. I don’t consider myself an inflation hawk. But since 1988, when the Bank of…