Rider frustration mounts with go-slow orders, failing AC, overcrowded trains and scheduling stumbles on the Lakeshore line. GO Transit is apologizing for a mess of service problems that have afflicted its trains over the past month. But while the agency is promising some relief is on the way, officials are …
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Germany: Syrian asylum seekers blows himself up, wounding 12
ANSBACH, Germany (AP) – A failed asylum-seeker from Syrian blew himself up and wounded 12 people after being turned away from an open-air music festival in southern Germany in what officials said Monday may have been a suicide bombing. It was the fourth attack to shake Germany in a week …
Read More »Iraq finally bans fake bomb detectors after July 3 blast
BAGHDAD (AP) – For nearly a decade, anyone driving through one of Baghdad’s many checkpoints was subjected to a search by a soldier pointing a security wand at their vehicle and watching the device intently to see if its antenna moved. If it pointed at the car, it had supposedly …
Read More »JuD medical team seeks Indian visa to visit Kashmir
New Delhi: A medical team belonging to the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) has applied for a visa at the Indian High Commission to visit Kashmir. According to reports, the visa has been sought on grounds of ‘offering help’ to those who suffered during the violent stone-throwing protests following the July 8 killing …
Read More »From quitting Rajya Sabha to speculation on joining AAP – Punjab’s Navjot Singh Sidhu reveals all
New Delhi: Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday broke silence and revealed that he resigned from the Rajya Sabha as he was repeatedly being asked to stay away from his home state Punjab. Addressing a much-awaited press conference here, Sidhu said: “I resigned from Rajya Sabha because I was told …
Read More »Parliament video: Speaker forms 9-member probe panel, asks Bhagwant Mann not to attend House
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Monday formed a nine-member committee to probe into live streaming of a video of Parliament House complex by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Bhagwant Mann on his Facebook page. Saying that Mann’s videography of the Parliament House complex had put its security …
Read More »Sukhbir Badal slams Bhagwant Mann, Majithia demands MP’s resignation
Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Sunday charged Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders of not caring about religious tenets and national security. Addressing mediapersons after paying obeisance at the Golden Temple, Sukhbir said AAP leader Bhagwant Mann’s act of recording and sharing the Parliament video endangered the security …
Read More »One dead after multi-vehicle crash on Highway 401
Collision between multiple motorcycles and one tractor trailer around 3 a.m. on Highway 401, east of Keele St. A motorcyclist is dead and another is in serious condition after a multi-vehicle crash involving motorcycles and a transport truck on Highway 401 early Saturday morning, Sgt. Kerry Schmidt confirmed. At about …
Read More »Crumbling, crowded Milton courthouse an ‘unmitigated disaster’
The sad state of the courthouse in one of the country’s fastest growing cities is causing some cases to be thrown out. The elevator often doesn’t work, pieces of the ceiling have fallen down, there has been flooding in at least one courtroom, and the premises are so cramped that …
Read More »Torontonians want texting-and-walking ban, poll says
New Forum Research polls also shed light on what we think of the TORONTO sign and the street hockey ban. Some politicians call the idea of a ban on texting while walking “silly,” but that hasn’t stopped a majority of Toronto residents from being in favour of it. A new …
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