Politics

LOADINGERROR LOADING This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. A hallmark of Donald Trump’s first presidency was the way major policy developments would sometimes get almost no attention, because they were competing with the flurry of higher-profile, sometimes mind-blowing controversies swirling around him and his team. Evidently Trump’s second … Read more

Food, children’s clothes and books will be exempt from the tax, but there are few exceptions such as colouring books and calendars A grocery cart in a grocery store. The GST-free period will cover almost all food items, not just those deemed basic.Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS /Getty Groceries This includes beer, wine and cider, pre-mixed … Read more

The marching song Heart of Oak under is fire for ‘language that does not align with values and ethos of today’s Royal Canadian Navy’ The Royal Canadian Navy’s Stadacona Band traditionally plays Heart of Oak when warships leave and return to their home ports.PHOTO CONTRIBUTED The Royal Canadian Navy is coming under fire for steering … Read more

‘There are no confirmed crashes or injuries related to this condition in Canada or the U.S.,’ says public relations analyst at Hyundai Auto Canada The front grill of a 2020 Hyundai Palisade is on display at the 2020 Pittsburgh International Auto Show, Feb. 13, 2020, in Pittsburgh.Photo by Gene J. Puskar /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT … Read more

‘The bodies were laying on the ground, stacked on shelves, left on gurneys, stacked on top of each other or just piled in rooms’ This combination of booking photos provided by the Muskogee County, Okla., Sheriff’s Office shows Jon Hallford, left, and Carie Hallford, owners of Return to Nature Funeral Home.SMimg The owners of a … Read more

Cpl. Michael McLaughlin with B.C. Highway Patrol says the evidence shows there was no criminality involved in the crash near Lac La Hache A school bus crash is shown near 100 Mile House, B.C., in this June 21 RCMP handout photo.Photo by HO /THE CANADIAN PRESS 100 MILE HOUSE — Police in B.C. say a … Read more

LOADINGERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — Amnesty International is appealing to President Joe Biden to use his final weeks in office to “rectify a case of injustice” by releasing 80-year-old Native American rights activist Leonard Peltier from prison. “As a matter of humanity, mercy, and human rights, you should grant clemency and release Leonard Peltier,” reads a … Read more

LOADINGERROR LOADING On the night of the election, Red Broadwell was home with his cat in Wilmington, North Carolina, working on his master’s thesis about transness and body horror in film. He tried not to doomscroll about the election results. But when the 23-year-old trans graduate student woke up the next morning to the news … Read more

‘I charged a large amount of money on my credit card to purchase the diamonds…. I never received any diamonds just excuses. I had to sell my company,’ one of 200 victims tells court Jack Kronis, circa 1991.Photo by Handout Jack Kronis, a prolific career conman and serial fraudster from Toronto, still owes more than … Read more

‘This trial exposed the unthinkable cruelty of human smuggling’ Minnesota U.S. attorney says after Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel and Steve Shand found guilty Jagdish Patel, 39; his wife Vaishaliben Patel, 37; their 11-year-old daughter, Vihangi; and their three-year-old son, Dharmik, are shown in a handout photo. Photo by Amritbhai Vakil /THE CANADIAN PRESS A jury convicted … Read more