Month: March 2018

Laura McColm says she was shocked when she received a call from her son’s school board, saying his immunization files are incomplete. “Connor was actually two days early on an immunization and therefore, it’s invalid,” said the mother of three. Story continues below She says her son, Connor, is up to date on all of his shots, but Durham Region’s health department has issued eight-year-old Connor a suspension notice because he received the shots on Sept. 13, 2013, instead…

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March 14 2018 6:18pm Laura McColm says her son’s shots are up to date, so she was shocked when she found out his records are considered incomplete. Jasmine Pazzano has more. ‘ }); } else { var rel_id = svp.releaseInfo.contentId+””; if( typeof gnca_social_share_collection ); } }; // don’t do on IE, doesn’t work yet if…

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Jill Coture has launched a human rights complaint after she alleges her former boss sexually harassed her for months while she worked as a waitress at Papa Joe’s Hot Kettle in Ayr, Ont., south of Kitchener. “He grabbed my breasts twice, rubbed my buttocks, tried undoing my bra several times — all in the kitchen in front of male employees,” she told Global News anchor Farah Nasser. “He asked me to bring a vibrator to work so he…

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Critics of both parties pressed the president to speak out personally and possibly take action to back up Mrs. May. “Where Prime Minister May has taken bold and decisive initial action to combat Russian aggression, our own president has waffled and demurred,” said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader. “Prime Minister May’s decision to expel the Russian diplomats is the level of response that many Americans have been craving from our own administration.” Senator Ben Sasse,…

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As simple as that sounds, it should not detract from Mr. Lamb’s feat. The 18th Congressional District runs from the rural southwest corner of the state, a blue-collar wedge of gas fields and coal mines, up to the middle- and upper-class Pittsburgh suburbs, a mix of dependably Democratic communities and Republican strongholds. Many political experts had focused on whether Mr. Lamb could keep the vote close in rural areas, something he accomplished with a strong pitch to labor unions….

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The effort they are calling “Phase 2” appears to unify two lingering problems from the tax cut bill that Republicans sped through Congress late last year. In both cases, fixing them would require support from Senate Democrats, who are not inclined to lend any backing to a tax bill that they opposed and that was passed over their objections. One problem is that tax cuts for individuals are set to expire at the end of 2025. That is a…

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