Category: Hamilton News

A student group in support of striking York University contract workers has staged a sit-in at the school’s senate chamber and is calling for the university to cancel classes. “We are reclaiming the space which our tuition has funded. We are students occupying this space … We demand the Senate cancel all classes by Friday, March 23rd at 11:59 p.m. until the strike is over,” a statement issued Thursday evening by a group called Students for CUPE 3903. “Continuing classes…

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What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. Social media played a huge roll in electing Justin Trudeau but could it also be his undoing? Story continues below Chris Wylie — the pink-haired data whiz whose mining skills are said to have helped Donald Trump win the White House — was hired, then fired, by the Trudeau Liberals in 2016. He was paid $100,000 to help launch a short-lived Facebook pilot just after the sunny ways…

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BRAMPTON, Ont. – Police west of Toronto say they’ve made a second arrest in the killing of a 21-year-old man. Peel Regional Police say they’ve charged 22-year-old Guryodh Singh Khattra with first-degree murder in the death of Paviter Singh Bassi. Bassi was found Monday evening suffering from life-threatening injuries at an address in Brampton, and he died the next day in hospital. READ MORE: Man charged with 1st-degree murder after fatal assault in Brampton Also on Tuesday, police arrested and…

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A 32-year-old Bowmanville woman says multiple hospitals in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond have denied her treatment for her brain condition, which causes her to feel sick, dizzy, and sometimes, to black out. Lindsey Martin claims specialists from St. Michael’s Hospital, Northumberland Hills, and Lakeridge Health have not given her a solution, and she is pushing for better health care. “I feel like I’m stuck in the health-care system because nobody is doing anything for me,” she said….

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After a Global News report about a Markham man facing a $12,400 bill for towing and auto body work he didn’t authorize, others have come forward with their own towing horror stories. As Sean O’Shea reports, consumers can take some steps to protect themselves. Powered by WPeMatico

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The new team unites two of the most virulent opponents of the 2015 Iran deal: Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director who was nominated as secretary of state after Mr. Tillerson was unceremoniously fired last week, and Mr. Bolton, a former ambassador to the United Nations who famously declared two decades ago that if 10 stories of the organization’s headquarters disappeared, “it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.” Even before the announcement on Thursday night that General McMaster was leaving…

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Mr. Trump, a senior official said, signed off on the sanctions and the harsh language in the administration’s statements. But he was determined not to antagonize Mr. Putin, this person said, because he believes his leader-to-leader rapport is the only way to improve relations between the two countries. That strategy has put Mr. Trump at odds with his own advisers: in preparing the president for the call, aides advised him to raise the nerve-agent attack and wrote on his…

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In an interview on Thursday evening on Fox, Mr. Bolton said he recognized that his role would be to play the honest broker bringing different views to the president, and that it would be up to Mr. Trump to make the decisions. But he made clear that he also planned to be Mr. Trump’s enforcer. When the president makes a decision, he said, part of his job will be “making sure the bureaucracies get the decision and implement it.”…

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Mr. Reid emphasizes that he is not angry or bitter. But he says he feels so disconnected from Washington that he is selling his apartment in the Ritz-Carlton here and plans to be in the nation’s capital only infrequently. “I don’t want to be here,” Mr. Reid said. “My life’s not the Senate anymore.” To some, that is no doubt good news. Mr. Reid was a tough adversary, an acerbic foe always ready to slug it out with Republicans,…

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