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Read More »Vatican, Pentagon deny report of heated meeting with church’s U.S. representative
The Vatican and the Pentagon have pushed back on a report that suggested a meeting in January between a U.S.-based cardinal and a member of Donald Trump’s administration grew heated. The Pentagon said late Thursday on social media that Elbridge Colby, the undersecretary of defence for policy, had a “respectful …
Read More »U.S. air force to deny retirement benefits to transgender service members being forced out
The U.S. air force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early, and would instead force them out without retirement benefits. One air force sergeant said he was “betrayed and devastated” by the move. The move …
Read More »Serbian officials, police deny using sonic weapon on anti-government protesters
Serbian officials denied Sunday that the country’s security forces used a military-grade sonic weapon to disperse and scare protesters at a huge anti-government rally in the capital. Opposition officials and Serbian rights groups claimed that the widely banned acoustic weapon that emits a targeted beam to temporarily incapacitate people was …
Read More »‘Deny’ ‘Delay’ and a health CEO’s murder
Front Burner The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has put a spotlight on the U.S.’ dysfunctional healthcare system. But how did it get to this point? CBC News · Posted: Dec 09, 2024 7:30 AM EST | Last Updated: 2 hours ago NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 04: …
Read More »Top soldier says he won’t confirm or deny that Canadians troops are on the ground in Ukraine
Canada’s top soldier is declining to confirm media reports that Canadian military members are on the ground in Ukraine to train locals in fighting invading Russian forces. Gen. Wayne Eyre, Canada’s chief of the defence staff, appeared on Power & Politics on Monday following reports from Global News and the New York …
Read More »Family doctors deny they’re causing Ontario’s emergency room problems
Family doctors are pushing back against claims that they are partly responsible for the woes of hospital emergency rooms across Ontario by limiting patients’ in-person appointments. Ontario Health has just released a new set of statistics showing another month of record-high wait times in the province’s emergency departments. The figures show …
Read More »Coastal GasLink, contractor deny liability for alleged sexual assault at pipeline work camp
Coastal GasLink says it is not liable for an alleged sexual assault at a work camp in northern B.C., and instead says any negligence is the fault of Civeo Premium Services, a pipeline contractor which also denies responsibility. The two companies also disagree about who employed the person alleged to have committed the …
Read More »Ontario Liberals, NDP insist they can deny Doug Ford his majority in campaign’s final stretch
Just nine days remain in the Ontario election campaign, not a lot of time for the race to shift dramatically, but Liberal and NDP strategists claim it’s enough time. Both those parties hoped that they would have definitively left the other in the dust by this point in the campaign, …
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