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Former TD Bank Staffer Pleads Guilty in Money Laundering Case A former employee of Toronto-Dominion (TD) Bank based in New York has pleaded guilty to orchestrating the transfer of nearly $100 million dollars for a money-laundering syndicate through the bank’s accounts. The charge represents the most recent development in an investigation by U.S. authorities into a scheme involving hundreds of millions of dollars in drug-related […] View Article →

Farmers in France, Greece Block Streets in Protest Over EU-Mercosur Trade Deal Farmers in Europe have been concerned that the deal would see markets flooded with cheap goods, hurting their industry. View Article →

Rubio to Meet Danish Leaders to Discuss Greenland Next Week The U.S. Secretary of State indicated no retreat from the Trump administration's ambitions for America to own the strategically important Arctic island. View Article →

Rare Red Warning for Wind Issued for Parts of South West as Storm Goretti Nears A rare red warning for “dangerous, stormy” winds has been issued by the Met Office for south-west England, with Storm Goretti set to bring 100mph gusts. The warning, from 4pm until 11pm on Thursday, says “violent gusts” over two to three hours will hit parts of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Peak winds of […] View Article →

Council Ordered to Pay £80,000 After Man Hit by Falling Lamppost Glasgow City Council has been ordered to pay £80,000 after a man was struck by a collapsing lamppost. Colin Shaw was left with life-changing injuries after the lamppost struck him in June 2023. The council admitted liability at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Thursday. In a statement released through law firm Digby Brown, Mr Shaw said: “This […] View Article →

NHS Repeatedly Releasing Bodies to Wrong Families, Swinney Warned The NHS has repeatedly released the bodies of dead Scots to the wrong people, MSPs have warned. Scottish Labour deputy leader Dame Jackie Baillie and Conservative health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane both warned the First Minister to take action after the recent “wrongful release” of a person was only discovered after they were cremated. NHS […] View Article →

Tate Modern Attacker Jailed for 16 Weeks After Assaulting Broadmoor Staff A man who threw a six-year-old boy off the Tate Modern’s 10th-storey balcony has been jailed for 16 weeks after attacking two nurses at Broadmoor hospital. Jonty Bravery was found guilty of assaulting nurses Linda McKinlay and Kate Mastalerz after he kicked one in the thigh and clawed at the face of another in September […] View Article →

MDA Space Signs Deal With US Missile Defense Agency for SHIELD Program MDA Space Ltd. has signed a deal with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program. The company has received an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract. MDA says the award positions it to bid on future tasks and services that support the U.S. initiative. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency […] View Article →

In Canada, Our Troubles Are Not Over Commentary When my late friend William Gairdner published “The Trouble with Canada” in 1990, he wasn’t announcing the collapse of the country, but he was warning of its pending distortion. A former Olympian, businessman, and one of Canada’s most astute conservative thinkers, Bill Gairdner wrote as a citizen disturbed by a steady erosion of freedom, […] View Article →