Month: March 2018

A stabbing in the city’s downtown core has left one man in serious condition. The incident occurred around 6:00 a.m. Saturday in the Chinatown area near Queen Street West and Spadina Avenue. Investigators say the victim is believed to be in his 30s and that he managed to take a taxi to a hospital around 6:30 a.m. The southbound lanes on Spadina Avenue are now closed at Queen Street West for a police investigation. There is no word on suspects….

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TORONTO – A timeline of the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership race: READ MORE: Ontario PC Party to reveal new leader to take embattled party through spring election Story continues below Jan. 24: Patrick Brown, then the leader of the party, calls a last-minute press conference to deny a pending news report about sexual misconduct allegations. He decries them as “categorically untrue.” Minutes later, CTV News airs a story in which two unnamed women make allegations of sexual misconduct against…

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TORONTO – Ontario’s embattled Opposition will reveal today who will lead the party through a spring election after weeks of unprecedented chaos that exposed deep rifts and tensions within its ranks. The winner was to be announced at a convention centre in Markham, Ont., shortly after 3 p.m. but an undisclosed issue was causing a delay. Story continues below Four candidates – former Tory legislator Christine Elliott, former Toronto city councillor Doug Ford, Toronto lawyer and businesswoman Caroline Mulroney…

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Mr. Cobb’s primary task — producing documents for Mr. Mueller and arranging for White House aides to meet with prosecutors — is largely complete. Mr. Trump’s personal lawyers have been handling negotiations with Mr. Mueller over the terms of a presidential interview. Mr. Flood had been on the wish list of some of the president’s advisers to join his legal team last year, and he is the only person the White House has been in contact with about such…

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In Colombia, Mr. Trump will be repaying a visit that Mr. Santos, a Harvard-trained economist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016 for negotiating a peace treaty with FARC guerrillas, made to the White House in May. During a joint news conference with Mr. Trump at the time, Mr. Santos sidestepped a question about whether he agreed with the White House’s plan to build a wall on the border with Mexico to halt the flow of drugs into…

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All states are doing far more than Sec. DeVos recognized. She delivered a “tough love” speech that demonstrated why the USDOE is out of touch with the good things actually happening in states and schools. #saddened Powered by WPeMatico

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Since joining the administration in early 2017, Mr. Liddell has worked closely with Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, on efforts to streamline and update some government functions. That includes the way the government buys technology or the services it offers citizens online. Mr. Liddell has his detractors, both in the administration and outside it. Some critics say his record in the administration does not match the prominence of the post for which he is now being…

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