Feds are asked to move aid commitment from one LRT to another, and one councillor sees it as evidence that the province wants a subway, not LRT, on Sheppard. City council may have ended the debate over one controversial Scarborough subway this week, but the dispute over a second one …
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City asks for crosswalk phone ban
Motion ‘seems silly’ to some but council sends text message of its own, calling for province to bar pedestrians from using their devices while crossing road. Pokemon GO players, texting addicts, and avid Instagrammers beware — city council wants to crack down on you. At the end of a lengthy …
Read More »RCMP brass has failed to deal with sexual harassment, bullying scandal: Review
Advice from a human resources manager to fire one of the RCMP members was ignored. Instead, two of the individuals were docked several days’ pay, with one returning later to the unit to the dismay of co-workers OTTAWA—The RCMP’s top brass have apologized for failing to deal properly with the …
Read More »France reels as Bastille Day attack leaves 84 dead in Nice
NICE, France (AP) – A large truck plowed through revelers gathered for Bastille Day fireworks in Nice, killing at least 84 people and sending others fleeing into the sea as it bore down for more than a mile along the Riviera city’s famed waterfront promenade. The driver was killed by …
Read More »Pakistan provokes India, to observe black day on July 19 over Kashmir
New Delhi: In what is a clear provocation, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced that his country will observe July 19 as black day against death of civilians in Kashmir, the Pakistani media reported on Friday. The decision to observe July 19 as black day to express complete solidarity …
Read More »Madhya Pradesh to have country’s first ‘Happiness Department’ – aims to make people smile
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh cabinet on Friday cleared the proposal for creating a Happiness Department – a move aimed at making the people of this BJP-ruled state free of their worries. Madhya Pradesh has thus become the first state in the country to have such a department that will coordinate …
Read More »Ramdas Athawale wants Devyani Khobragade as his private secretary?
New Delhi: Newly appointed Minister of State for social justice and empowerment Ramdas Athawale is reported to be keen on appointing former Deputy Consul-General of India in New York Devyani Khobragade as his private secretary. While news agency PTI claimed that the order to appoint Khobragade as Athawale’s PS was …
Read More »After manifesto controversy, AAP divided on playing religion, dera cards in state
The manifesto gaffe has led to dissident voices in the Punjab unit of the Aam Aadmi Party. At a recent meeting of the party’s campaign committee, some senior Punjab leaders expressed their disillusionment for being forced to cut a sorry figure over the party using a picture of Golden Temple …
Read More »PCOCA: Badal govt to review organised crime act’s stringent provisions
The Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party government is reconsidering the controversial provisions of the proposed Punjab Control of Organised Crime Act (PCOCA), a stringent piece of legislation pushed by the police as an antidote to the rampant criminal activities of gangsters in the border state. At the cabinet meeting on …
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