BCOct 15, 2024
B.C. Conservatives expected to release costs of promises days before election
It's the last week of the British Columbia election campaign after a busy long weekend of promises for the B.C. Conservatives, including a new Children's Hospital for Surrey.
B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad is expected to explain how he's going to pay for all his promises, from the so-called Rustad rebate to exempt up to $3,000 a month of rent or mortgage payments from taxes, to the plan to eliminate the carbon tax.
Rustad also said the Conservatives would eliminate the provincial deficit of nearly $9 billion within two terms of government.
In the battle to win the 10 Surrey ridings, the
IndiaOct 15, 2024
Virsa Singh Valtoha Makes Self-Exit from Shiromani Akali Dal Amid Controversy
Shiromani Akali Dal's senior leader and spokesperson Virsa Singh Valtoha has left the Akali Dal. Actually, Shri Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh took a strict decision against Virsa Singh Valtoha and ordered him to be dismissed from the primary membership and from all other positions of Shiromani Akali Dal for 10 years within 24 hours.
Valtoha accused Jathedar Sahib Giani Harpreet Singh of conniving with the BJP and the central government. While leaving the party today, he said that today the anti-Akali forces will surely be happy, but steps are not taken from the throne to create terr
IndiaOct 15, 2024
ECI announces by-elections for 4 Assembly Seats in Punjab
By-election dates for 4 Vidhan Sabha seats of Punjab have been announced. According to the Election Commission's press conference held in Delhi today, Barnala, Dera Baba Nanak, Chabbewal and Gidderbaha assembly seats will go to polls on November 13 and the results will be released on November 23.
Out of the by-elections in Punjab assembly seats, 3 seats were held by Congress and one seat by Aam Aadmi Party. These seats fell vacant after the MLAs were elected as MPs during the Lok Sabha elections this year.
CanadaOct 15, 2024
water main break near Bowness Road in Calgary
A Calgary official says a water main break has closed a road and left some homes and businesses dry, but says it is not related to a feeder main rupture earlier this year in the same area of the city that resulted in months of water restrictions.
Ryan Kidd, the city's deputy director of water services, says the recent break happened in a smaller, 250-millimetre cast-iron distribution line that serves the immediate area, which is near Bowness Road and 51 Street Northwest. Kidd says water began bubbling up at street level on Sunday night and crews immediately shut down the line for repairs, ad
IndiaOct 15, 2024
Panchayat elections ended in Punjab, clashes and firing in many places
Panchayat elections in Punjab have ended today. Meanwhile, clashes and firing incidents also took place at many places. A person was injured due to firing at Khuda village near Sanur in Patiala district, while there were allegations of occupation of the booth by Aam Aadmi Party workers and supporters in some places.
The special thing is that this time Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had appealed to contest elections without party symbols and to elect panchayats unanimously, but the majority of people did not accept this appeal and preferred to contest elections.
IndiaOct 11, 2024
The real farmer is trapped in the markets: Ravneet Bittu
BJP leader from Punjab and Union Minister Ravneet Bittu has launched a sharp attack on the farmers' leaders of Punjab. Talking to reporters in Jalandhar, Bittu said that the real farmers are trapped in the markets, the leaders who are ruining this state.
He said that the Center has given 44 thousand crores of rupees to the state to raise one bait at a time on MSP.
It is to be noted that the purchase of paddy has stopped in Punjab. There is disappointment among the farmers regarding this. Aggrieved by this, the farmers and Aartis blocked the Jalandhar-Pathankot national highway from 1.30 pm tod
IndiaOct 11, 2024
Mayawati's big announcement, BSP will never form an alliance with any party
Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab will no longer be able to contest elections in alliance with BSP as Bahujan Samaj Party National President Kumari Mayawati today announced that her party will not contest elections in future in alliance with any regional party in Uttar Pradesh or anywhere else in the country. will fight
She said to take this decision referring to BSP votes going to alliance partners. Kumari Mayawati said that because of this, the party cadres are disappointed by not getting the results as expected.
She made this announcement in the party meeting after the recent election results
CanadaOct 11, 2024
Alberta government shuts down Edmonton daycare over safety concerns for children
The Alberta government says it has revoked the licence of an Edmonton daycare for risking the health and safety of children.
The province didn't provide specific details of how children attending Waverley Day Care were being put at risk, but says the risk was great enough to close the daycare immediately.
Waverley Day Care was operating on a probationary licence that was set to expire on Oct. 31, but the facility was shut down this week.
The province says the closure affects 56 child care spaces. Waverley Day Care was the second Edmonton child care centre to be shut down by the
BCOct 11, 2024
Police probe clears seven Vancouver officers in beating death of Myles Gray
Seven Vancouver police officers involved in the beating death of Myles Gray nine years ago have been cleared of wrongdoing by a police discipline authority.
The Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner says it's reviewing the decision over the 2015 death of Gray, which was classified as a homicide by a coroner's inquest last year.
A pathologist told the inquest Gray died of cardiopulmonary arrest, complicated by police actions including "neck compression," blunt force injuries, the use of pepper spray and holding Gray on his stomach while his arms were handcuffed behind his back.
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