The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) says the taxpayers of Newfoundland and Labrador simply can’t afford the current cost of the bureaucratic payroll. Renaud Brossard, interim Atlantic director for the CTF, told SaltWire Networks the salaries and benefits for government employees have consistently been the province’s biggest expense. At $3.9 billion, …
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A major change is coming into place for anybody sending parcels to the EU, the Post Office has confirmed. The move will affect anyone who sends packages to friends and family members to member states on the continent, the Mirror reports. Parcels will now be refused if they do not …
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are ‘pointless in self-exile’ and it would have been ‘great to have heard’ the Duke supporting the NHS during the Covid-19 crisis like the Cambridges have, a royal biographer has claimed. The Duke, 36, and Duchess of Sussex, 39, are currently living in their $14 …
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DON’T miss tomorrow’s Dunfermline Press, on sale as usual in the shops, as we celebrate the Dunfermline kids who have been honoured for the extraordinary things they’ve been doing to help improve the lives of others. A total of 50 local children have been recognised in the Dunfermline Junior Hero Awards …
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A family has been forced to leave their home after toilet water leaking into their kitchen led to their four-year-old daughter being hospitalised. The Harrow family of six were left unable to cook in the house and had to survive on food vouchers from Morrisons and takeaway meals because of …
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Mitch McConnell will continue to do what he can Wednesday to block the Senate from passing a $2,000 stimulus check measure as the $600 payments included in the $900 billion coronavirus relief package will start appearing in Americans’ bank accounts as early as next week. The Senate will start debating …
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EAST Lothian’s MSP has thanked the county’s Royal Mail staff for “going the extra mile” this year. Iain Gray visits a local delivery office each year to thank staff personally for delivering mail during the Christmas period, but is unable to this year due to Covid-19 social distancing guidelines. Instead, …
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FTSE closes down 0.7% or 47 points at 6,556 after approval for Oxford’s Covid vaccine and vote passing post-Brexit deal were overshadowed by three quarters of UK being plunged into Tier 4 lockdown FTSE 100 index of biggest UK firms down by 0.71% or 47 points at 6,556 today Fall comes …
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I have frequently been struck this year by how many times Amazon appeared in the magazine index – usually multiple mentions per issue, in every issue (including this one). It has been a similar story for other Faang stocks – or Fanmags as we should now call them – a clear …
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Suffragette viscountess will get statue in her honour 100 years after she was jailed for blowing up post box in campaign for women’s vote Margaret Mackworth, known as Lady Rhondda, campaigned for women’s rights The suffragette, from Newport, once made a bomb and posted it in a letterbox Campaigners have …
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