Tories and Labour

If Erin O'Toole was sincere when he surprised everyone last month by bemoaning the decline of unions, you'd think he'd publicly rebuke Premier Jason Kenney for his ongoing campaign to turn Alberta into a right-to-work state. So far, though, the new Conservative Party of Canada leader has had nothing to…

Amaarae is a diligent student of transnational music. The Ghanaian polymath - born in New York and raised between Atlanta, New Jersey and Accra - may create songs that have an identifiable alté nuclei, but she can be so many things at once, such is her chameleonic approach to song…

A turbulent week in Downing Street has ended with the apparent departure of Dominic Cummings, the prime minister's right-hand man.He “was seen leaving No. 10 a short while ago carrying a box”, reports the BBC, which says he has left his post “with immediate effect”.Speculation had been growing about Cummings’…

Boris Johnson is staring down the prospect of a Tory rebellion over his plans to implement a second national lockdown in England. Conservative MPs have “blasted the measures”, which come into effect on Thursday, and are warning that the restrictions will “ruin lives”, The Sun reports. By contrast, Keir Starmer has said…

Southwark Cathedral has conducted a memorial for a beloved stray cat that wandered into the building in 2008 and lived there for 12 years. The dean of the cathedral produced a live stream of the service of thanksgiving in memory of Doorkins Magnificat, who died last month.Woman in labour stops to…

The first food bank opened its doors in Alberta in 1981. After the recession hit in 1980, food banks and similar emergency food support programs began to pop up as temporary responses to the increasing levels of poverty across the country. That's right -- temporary. Today, we are faced with a…

The first food bank opened its doors in Alberta in 1981. After the recession hit in 1980, food banks and similar emergency food support programs began to pop up as temporary responses to the increasing levels of poverty across the country. That's right -- temporary. Today, we are faced with a…

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Rachel Sylvester in The Timeson halting a multi-billion pound benefits cutRed Wall Tories want a U‑turn from Johnson“In March, the chancellor promised to do ‘whatever it takes’ to help people and…

Boris Johnson is braced for a fresh onslaught of resistance as he today reveals Downing Street’s hotly anticipated three-tier system for enforcing local lockdowns. The new measures are intended to simplify the patchwork of rules currently covering more than 15 million Britons - approximately a quarter of the UK population -…

On August 26, 2020, Ontario's Special Investigations Unit cleared six Toronto police officers of wrongdoing in the May 27 death of 29-year-old Regis Korchinski-Paquet, who fell from a 24th-floor balcony. Family members who were present at the time of her death offered, from the start, a very different account of police actions…