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SIR – Dame Esther Rantzen (Letters, February 17) writes that Britain has a high Covid-19 mortality rate due to its past reluctance to lock down. The Oxford Government Response Tracker, which compares policy responses to Covid-19 around the world, shows that Britain has imposed strict restrictions for longer than any other country in Europe during the pandemic, with the possible exceptions of Ireland and Portugal, and longer than almost all Asian countries. Dame Esther then singles out Japan a...

Punting men behaving badly: Cleanaways board struggle Jan 22, 2021 – 3.18pm Share Early in Vik Bansals tenure as Cleanaway Waste Management chief executive, a member of the companys IT team based at the groups St Kilda Road headquarters in Melbourne abruptly left the company after an outburst from the boss, who was angered because the whiteboard pens in a meeting room didnt work. At that time, IT had responsibility for in-room technology, which included whiteboard markers. Cleanaway CEO Vik B...

Author of the article: Steph Crosier Publishing date: Jan 05, 2021  •  January 5, 2021  •  2 minute read Article content Three Kingston residents are facing a total of 72 criminal charges from police following a two-month investigation into fraud and thefts from Toronto to Ottawa. Kingston Police said that in early November 2020, they started to investigate a number of incidents they claim Derek Bennett, 51, Sherri Allen, 45, and Victoria Wales, 51, perpetrated. With the assistance of...

Three residents from Kingston have been charged in connection with a fraud-related crime spree. Thefts and frauds were being committed at various hardware and big box stores from Toronto to Ottawa. Police say the scheme involved buying an expensive item – paying for it – leaving then store then return to the store with only the receipt. They would then put the same item in their cart – pick an inexpensive item to purchase at the cash and produce the receipt for the more expensive item the...

Dec 14, 2020 11:19 AM Opposition House Leader David Brazil is still fuming over Independent member Perry Trimper’s move to block the passage of amendments allow some pensions to be unlocked to alleviate hardship. Trimper, a former Speaker of the House of Assembly, argued that he wanted time to raise a question about flooding at Mud Lake, forcing a second day of sitting in the Legislature today. Brazil says all parties agreed that Independent members would have opportunities to ask questions o...

When your administration and your cabinet agency is a disaster area, you walk. thats what youre supposed to do. you dont wait for the president to fire you. youre not a civil servant who has rights under the law to keep their job. he aint a headless nail, and yet shinsekis acting like one, like hes got some right to that job. thats not the way it works in politics. youre there at the pleasure of the president and if you do your job right, you keep it, but if you dont do your job, you accept the ...

>> whats the first step here, get rid of him and move on, or move on and keep him? >> were asking our members that question right now, chris, were member driven, know this is a big decision for the president, but i agree with chuck, who is the next one in line? >> okay, thank you. well said by both you guys. thank you for the intelligent viewing of this whole thing. breaking tonight, chuck todd and derek bennett, thanks so much speaking for the veterans. coming up, let obama be obama. the pres...

faced a waiting time of over 100 days were recorded at waiting less than a quarter of that time for attention. bottom line, the worst stories of long delayed treatment and deliberate coverup have been shown to be true, as "the new york times" is reporting late today, "the report validates that employees in phoenix kept an off the books waiting list or used other artifices to cloak long waiting lines many veterans faced for medical care." so its come in bad. is he going to do what he ma...

Sounds very much like he continues to have the pleasure of the president. he also is very personally attached to this issue as a veteran himself, but more importantly, general shinseki didnt bring these problems with him. >> do you want him out or in, derek, what do you want? >> not question whether hes in or out, but lets fix the va. >> whats the first step here, get rid of him and move on, or move on and keep him? >> were asking our members that question right now, chris, were member driven, k...

inspectors general report on that agency. there is going to be accountability, the president said in stern words, if that report came out bad for the va and the people running it. the president predicted also ominously that if general shinseki learns he is doing a bad job running that agency, he, himself, will resign. late today the i.g. report did come in bad, very bad, said veterans at the va hospital who faced a waiting time of over 100 days were recorded at waiting less than a quar...