Positive messages are coming from ministers as the PM returns for discussions with Jean Claude Juncker on how to fix the hated Northern Irish backstop later. Critics said the backstop would tie us to the EU forever, and it's one of the main reasons the deal is in deadlock. But the PM has been working on plans – either to […]

Climate change threats – from worsening water shortages in Iraq and Pakistan to harsher hurricanes in the Caribbean – are a growing security risk and require concerted action to ensure they don’t spark new violence, security experts warned Tuesday. “Climate change is not about something in the far and distant future. We are discussing imminent threats to national security,” said […]

The UK would be “naive” and “irresponsible” to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei to contribute to the UK’s next mobile phone network, a defence think-tank says. The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) says Beijing’s history of using cyber attacks to advance Chinese interests in the West showed it was at risk of installing a “hidden backdoor” in the system. The […]

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova has been sacked as an ambassador for a group campaigning for LGBT sportspeople over “transphobic” comments. She wrote in The Sunday Times that it was “insane” and “cheating” for male-to-female athletes to be allowed to compete in women’s sport. “A man can decide to be female, take hormones if required by whatever sporting organisation is concerned, […]

Now three TORY MPs defect to the new Independent Group in humiliating blow for Theresa May less than an hour before PMQs Sarah Wollaston, Anna Soubry and Heidi Allen all joined  Independent Group The strongly pro-Remain MPs have been furious at the Brexit strategy of May   In a damning letter, they said the Tories were ‘in the grip’ of right […]

A man from Brooks, Alta. is facing sexual assault charges after police uncovered alleged assaults of young boys during a child pornography investigation. Related Central Alberta man charged with child porn offences, voyeurism: ALERT Edmonton group home worker accused of molesting, making child porn with 11-year-old in his care Prominent Alberta doctor charged with trying to arrange sex with a […]

A group of enterprising Winnipeggers is facing big fines for selling illegal tobacco in the city. Investigators for Manitoba Finance seized over 45,000 contraband cigarettes from three local stores, the province announced Tuesday. In addition to the 45,117 illegal smokes, 3,600 stolen cigarettes and $10,506 in cash were also seized from the three locations, which were all owned and operated […]

A 26-year-old man from Halifax is facing charges after he was allegedly driving erratically in the city’s west end Tuesday morning. Halifax Regional Police say they received a report at around 10:30 a.m. of a vehicle that had been driving on the sidewalk. A short time later, officers received word that a vehicle of the same description had struck another […]

The woman – named only as Derya O – who comes from a Turkish family in Germany said she went off the rails at an early age. She was the girlfriend of a Hells Angels leader just before hooking up with German convert Mario Sciannimanica online. He told her about his conversion to the "true cause" and how he had […]

The parents of an Ohio University student are blaming a fraternity’s brutal hazing rituals for their son’s death — saying its members forced copious amounts of drugs and alcohol into his system before he fell unconscious. The parents of Collin L. Wiant, 18, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Sigma Pi fraternity’s Epsilon chapter in Athens County Common Pleas […]