LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s last-minute scramble to shape an EU exit, its biggest policy upheaval in half a century, stalled on Thursday as Prime Minister Theresa May and opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn dug in their heels for competing visions. After May’s two-year attempt to forge an amicable divorce with an independent trade policy was crushed by parliament in the […]

The City of Coquitlam has no problem with FortisBC digging up one its major arteries, as long as the gas company doesn’t leave it worse off. “You get to lay your pipeline,” said Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart. “Just don’t make us subsidize [it] with tax dollars.” The city has made a submission to the B.C. Utilities Commission demanding that when […]

Public assistance is being requested by police after a stranger assaulted a 14-year-old girl Jan. 16, in Surrey. Surrey RCMP say the teen was walking home from school in the 9300 block of 157 Street when she noticed a man standing by the path to Bel Air Park. Moments later he was walking behind her and grabbed her shoulder. Police say […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump unveiled a revamped U.S. missile defense strategy on Thursday that called North Korea an ongoing and “extraordinary threat,” seven months after he declared the threat posed by Pyongyang had been eliminated.  The Missile Defense Review, which also detailed concerns about the burgeoning capabilities of Iran, Russia and China, was a broad examination of efforts […]

Lleyton Hewitt accuses Bernard Tomic of ‘blackmail’ and ‘physical threats’ towards him and his family as he reveals details of bitter year-long feud between Australian tennis stars Lleyton Hewitt made explosive allegations against tennis bad boy Bernard Tomic Claimed Tomic blackmailed and made threats against him and his family Says Tomic won’t play for Australia in the Davis Cup again […]

A bride-to-be was left furious when her future mother-in-law demanded she DYE her natural red hair. The bride revealed online how she was first taken aback when her fiancee’s mum asked her to change her natural colour – so it didn’t clash with her own DYED hair. In a post on Reddit, she revealed how the future in-law (referred to […]

New York: At the north-east corner of Central Park on a frosty winter morning this week, the volunteers at New York Common Pantry were hard at work sorting piles of food into plastic bags. Piled high around them were donated packets of pinto beans, tins of chicken and stacks of bananas. Downstairs in the basement another team of volunteers was chopping […]

Brexiteers boast they could get a deal MPs would vote for after securing pledges from Theresa May during Downing Street talks They boasted of securing pledges from PM that could see Brexit deal passed  Eurosceptic MPs who met her said she had vowed not to bow to pressure from Cabinet Remainers to accept Labour’s idea of a permanent customs union […]

Prince George RCMP are asking for information from the public following the discovery of a body. On Saturday Jan. 12, RCMP were notified about a person laying in a ditch on West Lake Estates Road, off Blackwater Road. Officers later determined the 40-year-old male was deceased and members of The North District Major Crime Unit are investigating it as a homicide. Earlier in […]

Four people are facing charges after local and provincial police executed raids at three illegal marijuana dispensaries in London this week. According to the OPP, the busts took place at storefronts on Dundas Street, Hamilton Road and Wortley Road on Wednesday. Two people, aged 22 and 40, were arrested on Dundas Street, while two people, aged 63 and 64, were […]