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As hardworking taxpayers tightened their belts last year to cope with pay cuts and job losses, Toronto’s municipal employees were busy cashing in bigger paycheques with your tax dollars.
The City of Toronto currently employs 34,603 workers. Last year, only 104 of them didn’t get a raise. That means over 99.6% of Toronto municipal employees got a pay hike.
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Toronto has been experiencing a tale of two pandemics. Government employees have largely got through the downturn scot free, while workers outside of government have borne the burden.
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President Biden has decided to end the war in Afghanistan. He feels it’s time, and so do a lot of Americans.
I feel it, too. I’m just not sure feelings should win the day.
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In his televised address announcing the decision, Biden reiterated that American withdrawal can’t be “tied to conditions on the ground” because no one can say what conditions must be met in order to depart.
As a senior administration official explained to reporters, “This is not conditions-based. The president has judged that a conditions-based approach, which has been the approach of the past two decades, is a recipe for staying in Afghanistan forever.”
Biden administration levels stiff new sanctions against Russia By The World staff © Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Coordination Center of the Russian Government in Moscow, Russia, April 13, 2021.
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The White House has announced sanctions against Russia and the expulsion of Russian diplomats in response to Moscow s interference in US elections and the cyber breach to vital federal government agencies last year.
The measures announced Thursday include sanctions on six Russian companies that support the country s cyber activities and on 32 entities and individuals for disinformation campaigns and carrying on government interference in the 2020 US presidential election. The executive order also expels 10 Russian diplomats, some of whom are suspected intelligence officers.
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