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Premium Content Subscriber only One of the region's favourite beach festivals will return next month, with calls for local business sponsors to get behind the seaside event. Fingers and toes are crossed for this year's Wind Slasher Kite Surfing Beach Festival, with participants hoping the weather brings plenty of wind when the annual event returns to Elliott Heads next month. Local kite surfer Shannon Perry said Wind Slasher was a great opportunity to showcase the sport to the local community and younger generations who may interested in pursuing it. Picture: Rhylea Millar Sponsored by D...

6 January 2021 • 12:02am Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing on coronavirus (COVID-19) in Downing Street, London Credit: Hannah McKay/PA SIR – How was it possible, in this crisis, for our much-lauded human rights and civil liberties to be suspended so easily, without even the right to protest publicly against this? Why were ministers and scientists allowed to present statistics out of context in a way that was misleading, without immediate questions from the media? What role did Ofcom play in the communication or suppression of anti-lockdown views? What happened to the te...

An anti-union campaign Though the first Lush store was opened in Poole, England in 1995, the company's offices, factory, and distribution centers are in Vancouver and Toronto. While these centers support more than 250 retail stores across North America, the current unionizing drive is focusing on the offices and manufacturing centers in Toronto and does not include retail workers. The Lush union's goal is to get 65% of support from an eligible group of almost 1,400 employees. Only 40% is necessary to apply for a vote with the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) which oversees union activity...

>> ifill: john merrow reports on a texas school district's approach to its high school drop-out crisis: luring students back with college courses. >> what we're looking at doing is doing education in a different way, where the colleges come together with us and start working with these young people while they're still in high school. >> suarez: judy woodruff looks back at the major decisions in this high-impact supreme court term with historian michael beschloss and marcia coyle of the "national law journal." >> ifill: and on this most american of holidays, we turn to the men who sig...

back with college courses. >> what we're looking at doing is doing education in a different way, where the colleges come together with us and start working with these young people while they're still in high school. >> suarez: judy woodruff looks back at the major decisions in this high-impact supreme court term with historian michael beschloss and marcia coyle of the "national law journal." >> ifill: and on this most american of holidays, we turn to the men who signed the declaration of independence and what happened to them after they did. >> they were placed under house arrest. th...