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Article content A cyberattack on a U.S. pipeline company last week should act as a “wake-up call” to everyone including Canadian companies, consumers and governments, says the head of Canada’s pipeline association. Colonial Pipeline was forced to shut down for six days after becoming aware of hackers infiltrating their systems on May 7. The shutdown resulted in fuel shortages and widespread panic buying, even after the pipeline network restarted, according to Reuters. We apologize, but th...

Hot Capital Region housing market boosts mortgage tax revenue | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS The continuation of lower mortgage interest rates and fewer homes for sale on the market means properties are going for above-asking value, leading to higher mortgage tax distribution in the county. Add that to people refinancing their homes for various reasons and the county has seen an increase in the mortgage tax it collected for the period of October 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021 compared to the same tim...

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Here’s what you need to know for Wednesday morning A months-old text message from newly-elected GOP chairman Carson Jorgensen is causing a ruckus in the Republican Party. The text message suggests Jorgensen is spoiling for a fight top elected Republicans, but he says things are being taken out of context [Tribune]. Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall released her $350 million budget proposal for next year. The Tribune’s Leia Larsen breaks down what’s in the proposal, including more money...

Ross McCollin: Our nation owes much to Native American culture The reason so little of Indigenous culture survives is because the white man wiped it out. (Philip J. Pantano/Seneca-Iroquois National Museum via AP) This 2019 photo provided by Seneca-Iroquois National Museum in New York shows a long-missing peace pipe tomahawk President George Washington gave to Seneca Indian leader Cornplanter in the late 18th century that has been returned to the tribe in western New York. An anonymous collector...

The United States is in a muddle over how to tell our history, stuck between an aggressive revisionism that would leave few commemorative statues...

This is the cover of "A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith" by Timothy Egan. The book is reviewed by Mitch Finley. (CNS) Help us expand our reach! Please share this article "A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith" by Timothy Egan. Viking (New York, 2019). 367 pp., $28. Timothy Egan, author of "A Pilgrimage to Eternity," writes a biweekly opinion column for The New York Times. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the winne...

I was driving around the other day when I realized that the license tabs on my car had expired. I didn’t panic, because I didn’t have to. If the cops

Civil service may yet dodge ‘hard rain’ reform on squirming mandarins “There’s nothing more attention-seizing than the errors of a former prime minister,” writes Paul Goodman in The Times. “Particularly if present ministers are compromised by those errors too.” However, when it comes to the Greensill lobbying scandal, “individual civil servants are set to feel the lash”. “The hard fact is that the civil service, though first class in some respects, is to a significant exten...

NH House passes bill regulating landfills April 14, 2021REGION — On April 9, the New Hampshire House passed a bi-partisan bill, that establishes a two mile buffer around all New Hampshire State Parks, in order to protect them from any landfill developments. Sponsors of the bill include Rep. Edith Tucker, Coös 5, Representative William Hatch, Coös 6, Timothy Egan, Grafton 2, Dennis Thompson, Coos 1, Larry LaFlamme Coös 3 and State Senator Erin Hennessey, District 1. This bill prohibits th...