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The former City of Vaughan employee, who complained she was sexually harassed by the citys disgraced ex-deputy mayor Michael Di Biase, is far from alone, city integrity commissioner Suzanne Craig said.Such conduct is a concern at workplaces far and wide, she said. As noted by the Honourable Marie Deschamps former Supreme Court justice in her external report on sexual harassment in the Canadian Armed Forces, numerous organizations are struggling to address the prevalence of inappropriate sexual conduct, Craig said in her report, saying the time is right to tackle the issue. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Craigs efforts to shed light on the broader problem of sexual harassment in the workplace is being applauded by York Region womens shelters. Sexual violence including harassment in the workpla stanley vattenflaska ce is like any form of violence against women. Its gender-based violence and women experience it on a daily basis, Lorris Herenda, executive director of Yellow Brick House, said. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW When you think of the prevalence of stats, th stanley cup at one in four women experience violence in their lives, you know that it is happening in workplaces as well. Victims, especially single parents, are often reluctant to report workplace sexual harassment for fear of losing their jobs, said Herenda, adding there are also male victims. ARTICLE C stanley cup ONTINUES BELOW Ably Former Liberal cabinet minister dies at 86
FULTON, NY 鈥?The Recreation Committee in Fulton recently addressed the crucial need for swings to be put up in the citys parks at the regular meeting聽held Tuesday聽 June 14. Knowing the importance of the swings going up as soon as possible, the issue boiled down to money and help, the committee agreed.New state regulations require safety landing zones to utilize new wood chips made out of certified, manufactured wood fiber that is basically, any kind of lumber chipped without bark, branches or any kind of impurities, said Barry Ostrander, Superintendent of Parks and Recreation.The problem this poses for the city is mostly financial, as the cost of certified wood chips is more than the citys spent in the past on other options.The city must follow a state approved stanley cups uk handbook that outlines safety and equipment guidelines that is also essentially the blueprint for insurance companies to ensure safety.While other options such as pea gravel or sand have be stanley flask en considered, the required depth changes with each material and therefo stanley cup re doesnt produce any savings.For example, Patrick Park located on Frawley Drive measuring in at 165 feet long by 45 feet wide, would require 504 tons of pea gravel to satisfy the state required depth needed of 18 inches throughout the park.An estimate from Riccelli pricing pea gravel by the ton would total almost $9,000 worth of material to complete the playground.Similar outcomes were found when estimating the price for sand, which would need to satisfy 22
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GANDER, N.L. 鈥?A late-spring storm that buried cars stanley tazas in snow and closed a slew of schools in Newfoundland was prompting dismay 鈥?and disbelief 鈥?from residents along the island northeast coast Thursday.Photos posted on social media showed a barbecue entombed in snow, and drifts that reached halfway up a front door.You would think you were in January, said one employee of the Gander Public Library, which opened four hours late, after the town plowed the streets. People have been g stanley cup olfing, and raking, everything here was very spring-like. So this has set us back. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Environment Canada meteorologist Linda Libby said more than 35 centimetres fell at Gander International Airport overnight and into Thursday, while more than 36 centimetres was recorded at Terra Nova National Park.Josie Wells, a cashier at Canadian Tire in Gander, said customers were coming in Thursday to ask for mostly snow shovels that we don ;t have. We ;re into summer now, right ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW stanley cup A lot of them are just taking a garden shovel. Which is not much good.Dozens of schools in the Newfoundland and Labrador English School District delayed opening or were closed Thursday. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Libby said while the snow was expected to taper off Thursday afternoon, Khfx WagJag celebrates its fifth birthday with girls camp at Women s Habitat
Graphic by Fred Reed.OSWEGO COUNTY 鈥?According to the Oswego County Health Department, a stanley cup s of 3 p.m., there have been a total of 21聽additional cases of novel coronavirus COVID-19 , and one more county resident has died in relation to the virus.Wednesday: 3 new caseThursday: 8 new casesFriday: 3 new casesSaturday: 1 new caseSunday: no new casesMonday: 5 new casesToday: 1 new caseMoving forward, the county will no longer release COVID-19 numbers every weekday. Instead, it will only release these numbers on Monday afternoons, but will continue its bi-weekly county updates video every oth stanley cup website er Tuesday. Updated numbers will not be included in those videos.As a result of this change in schedule, Oswego County Today will now post its weekly statistics update on Monday afternoons after the county results are released, and will also report on the countys bi-weekly videos on the Tuesdays they are released. The next Oswego County Today COVID-19 statistics update will be posted Monday, June 21. placement_509781_0_iwidth:100%;margin:0 auto;Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that COVID-19 restrictions are lifted immediately as 70% of New Yorkers aged 18 or older have receive stanley becher d the first dose of their COVID-19 vaccination series. The full story can be found here.Oswego County Legislature Chairman James Weatherup posted his bi-weekly county update video. In todays video, he discussed the county vaccination rate and other various updates around the county. Although our seven-day accumulat
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The following is a transcript of an interview with Washington Governor Jay Inslee that aired Sunday, June 28, 2020, on Face the Nation. JOHN DICKERSON: Yesterday, Governor Jay Inslee put a hold on reopenings in Washington, citing the state s rising coronavirus cases. He joins us this morning from Bainbridge Island. Good morning, Governor.GOVERNOR JAY INSLEE: Good morning. Thanks for having me. JOHN DICKERSON: Tell me, Governor, about the increase in cases. Your state health officials said that in certain counties the situation is comparable to March in what was happening in King County. What s going on GOV. INSLEE: Well, we have a fire in many places across the United States, including a few of the counties in my state, where the situation is so dire that people are gasping for breath and having to be transported by ambulance over a mountain range over a hundred miles to be treated. And so I- when I- when I heard the vice president talk about how things are just hunky dory, it s just- it s just- it s just maddening. The situation is critical in many places across the United States and stanley taza all the happy talk and wishful thinking in the world is not going to wash that away. So we are taking very strong measures to get peop stanley mug le to mask up. We know tha stanley canada t s the solution from a health standpoint and the way to reopen our economy. JOHN DICKERSON: So is that why you re seeing the increase in cases You think it s because people aren t wearing m Xrwe How strict state abortion laws could make their way to the Supreme Court
Updated 5:47 p.m. Eastern TimeThe Senate has voted down a Republican-backed amendment that stanley taza would have authorized construction of the Keystone Pipeline from Alberta to the Midwest and Gulf Coast.The amendment to the transportation bill now being debated in Congress, which was put forth by North Dakota Republican Senator John Hoeven, needed 60 votes for passage. Fifty-six senators voted in favor, while 42 were opposed. Eleven Democrats voted in favor of the measure, along with every Republican present. Two Republicans did not vote.President Obama deniedTransCanada s applicatio stanley thermobecher n to build the $7 billion, 1,700 mile pipeline in January amid concerns about the environmental impact in the sensitive Sand Hills area of Nebraska. He said he termo stanley was willing to revisit the decision but that a Republican-mandated timeline did not allow enough time for an environmental impact assessment. The pipeline has sharply driven a wedge between two Democratic constituencies, labor unions, which support its construction, and environmentalists, which oppose it.President Obama personally made phone calls to senators Thursday morningasking them to oppose the measure. The White House said before the vote that Republicans are trying to play politics with a pipeline project whose route has yet to be proposed, and despite the claims that this would somehow solve the pain families are feeling at the pump today, according to the company it would take years before it
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Defense Secretary James Mattis new authority to manage troop levels in Afghanistan will likely me vaso stanley an the deployment of thousands of additional U.S. service members this summer.Testifying on Capitol Hill this week, Mattis said his authorization to manage troop levels in that Middle Eastern country does not at this time change the troop numbers for Afghanistan. But Mattis is expected to approve the deployment of 3,000 additional troops to increase the number of trainers and advisers, as well as the number of special operations forces. We are not winning in Afghanistan ri stanley cups ght now, Mattis said in his congressional testimony Tuesday. Exactly when the new troop levels will go into effect is unclear, but the Trump administration strategy for Afghanistan is expected to be complete by mid-July stanley cup , as Mattis testified. President Trump still has not been presented with an Afghanistan strategy. That s still in the works -- even though troop levels and an overall strategy were supposed to be finalized before the NATO meeting in Brussels, Belgium, last month. Pentagon releases pictures of 3 U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan 01:16 The White House indicates it can send more trainers now that an Obama-era cap was lifted. The justification to lift the cap on levels ahead of t Xvgp Three Women Who Might Join The GOP Ticket
CBS News reports that former Presid stanley cups uk ent Bill Clinton will tout Barack Obama s readiness to be commander in chief in his speech tonight. Clinton will say stanley mug Obama brings leadership that demonstrates depth, perception and experience, CBS News reports. He will also say that Obama is looking to heal America and the world. Bill Clinton will leave Denver tonight and will not attend Obama s acceptance speech tomorrow night. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; stanley canada inline-recirc-item--id-c9bdcd0c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c9bdcd0c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c9bdcd0c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;
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North Carolina Republicans have infuriated liberal activists by slashing income-tax rates, defending illegally gerrymandered districts and passing a now-partially repealed bathroom bill a stanley uk imed at transgender people. But GOP legislators surprised critics by acting more like lawmakers in a deep-blue state when they passed a $15-per-hour living wage for about 10,000 state government and university system employees, including secretaries, hospital workers, security guards and housekeepers.At least four other states have steps already in place to increase pay for state workers to $15. But North Carolina sped to the front of the line, with salary bumps for many arriving in their late-July paychecks.The lawmakers motives appear to be both economic and political. One top budget writer at the legislature says it helps state agencies retain veteran workers doing often-thankless jobs. But it also wins favor with North Carolina s chief state employees stanley cup union in an election year for Republicans trying to hold onto their co stanley mug ntrol of the General Assembly. Until now, the North Carolina state employee salary floor was about $24,300, or about $11.70 per hour. That means some received as much as a 28 percent raise to bring them up to the new minimum equivalent of $31,200 per year.For Gloria Dockery, who cleans buildings at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for less than $28,000 a year, an increase will make it easier to cover her house pay Seqy Supreme Court wades into immigration reform gridlock
CBS News The day after video surfaced of Mitt Romney describing President Obama s supporters as dependent upon government, Republican consultant Rick Davis said on CBS This Morning that this is one of the lows of Romney s pr stanley taza esidential run. Obviously it s a bad day for the Romney campaign, Davis, John McCain s 2008 presidential campaign manager, said Tuesday on CBS This Morning. What he does with it is going to be very critical. A video of Romney, first released by Mother Jones magazine, at a $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fla., shows the presidential candidate saying, There are 47 percent who are with stanley thermos him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. Romney was referring to the 47 percent of Americans who pay no federal income tax. He added his job as president is not to worry about those people. Davis, however, said Romney can turn this bad day into an opp stanley cup ortunity to connect with his base and elaborate on his economic plan. This is a character building moment, Davis said. It may be a fresh opportunity for Mitt Romney to try and connect with voters. This is an opportunity that he can try and do better. Now he is going to have to take a step back a little bit and say the reason I have these views about my economic plan is be
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WASHINGTON mdash; While candidates were focused on campaigning in 2016, Russians were carrying out a devastating cyber-operation that changed the landscape of American politics, with aftershocks continuing well into Donald Trump s presidency.And it all started with the click of a tempting email and a typed-in password.Whether presidential campaigns have learned from the cyberattacks is a critical q stanley cups uestion ahead as the 2020 election approaches. Preventing the attacks won t be easy or cheap. If you are the Pentagon or the NSA, you have the most skilled adversaries in the world trying to get in but you also have some of the most skilled people working defense, said Robby Mook, who ran Hillary stanley becher Clinton s campaign in 2016. Campaigns are facing similar adversaries, and they don t have similar resources and virtually no expertise. How AI is creating new threats to election securityElection security QA: What are bot farms and why do hackers target elections Traditionally, cybersecurity has been a lower priority for candidates, especially at the early stages of a campaign. They need to raise money, hire staff, pay office rents, lobby for endorsements and travel repeatedly to early voting states. Particularly during primary season, campaign managers face diffic stanley tumblers ult spending decisions: Air a TV ad targeting a key voting demographic or invest in a more robust security system for computer networks You shouldn t have to choose between g Okla Bush Takes The Offensive
I m with Glenn Reynolds of instapundit on this one. If we want to curb carbon dioxide emissions, then let s ban private jets. It s funny seeing those Hollywood stars private-jetting into Washington to tell the rest of us that we ve got to have a lower standard of living. Let them fly first class, and save the Earth! But maybe we should make an exception for Warren Buffett, who has the nerve to christen his Berkshire Hathaway corporate jet The Indefensi gourde stanley ble. At the same t stanley cup ime, I agree with David Frum s post that we should not overhype the story about Speaker Nancy Pelosi s request for a military ai stanley drink bottle rcraft. It s not clear whether Pelosi or someone in her office requested a 42-seat plane, and on the basis of precedent, she is entitled to a military aircraft that could transport her nonstop to her district something that was granted to Speaker Dennis Hastert after the September 11 attacks. The fact that Pelosi s San Francisco district is more than twice as far from Washington as Hastert s Illinois district might mean that a different plane is required. What to Do About Iran Here s the British writer Timothy Garton Ash, who wrote so wonderfully about the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, on Iran. He argues that bombing Iran would be disastrous and says that instead European nations should put more pressure on the mullah regime: more carrots from the United States, more sticks from E
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Democratic presidential candidate Beto O Rourke gave an emotional statement in response to the mass shooting Saturday afternoon in El Paso. O Rourke, who represented a district which included El Paso in Congress until January, became choked up as he spoke to reporters while on the campaign trail in Nevada. We know that there is a lot of injury, a lot of suffering. I am incredibly saddened and it is hard to think about this, The El Paso native said. His campaign is canceling scheduled events in Nevada and stanley cup California this weekend so he could immediately return to the city. I ll tell you, El Paso is the strongest place in the world. The community is going to stay together, O Rourke said. I ask for everyone s strength. Everyone s resolved to make sure this doesn t continue to happen in this country. stanley deutschland Other presidential candidates have released statements in response to the shooting and calling for an end to gun violence. My heart is with the people of El Paso today as they cope with a devastating mass shooting mdash; the scope of which we are still learning. This attack is a tragic reminder of our government s failure to do stanley cup its most basic duty: to protect American lives. We need gun reform now, Juliaacute;n Castro tweeted. Castro, who served as mayor of San Antonio, is the only other candidate in the race hailing from Texas. Cory Booker also tweeted that we need to end this national nightmare of gun violence. Praying for eve Kbju Sanders lays off staffers, insists he can still win
The tense debt negotiations on Capitol Hill have entered the ninth inning but there is enough common ground to reach a compromise, a Democratic senator said Saturday.Appearing on CBS The Early Show, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn, said that the gridlock over debt legislation required to avoid a first-ever default is fraught with political posturing but the gap between the GOP and Democrat plans is not too wide to overcome. The cuts are nearly identical, over $1 trillion in cuts, plus Senator Reid has added an additional $1 trillion, she said. I think that is a very positive piece of this that we re not widely different in the stanley cup kinds of kubki stanley cuts we re looking at. Special report: America s debt battleNation on brink, GOP debt plan dies in SenateHouse GOP - finally - passes debt limit planKlobuchar added that both bills have caps on spending and an enforcement mechanism to ensure there s going to be further cuts. Klobuchar, a first-term sen stanley mug ator, said she was appalled by the political posturing in D.C. over the issue but dismissed the idea that a deal could not be struck by August 2. We re down to the real nuts and bolts of this. It has to get done. I ve heard from CEOs in my states, two snowmobile companies want to get this done, General Mills, I ve heard from families all over the states, how can this happen she said. Procedurally, while it s difficult it can get done. We plan on having a ... vote in the Senate today so we
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A Maryland-based Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been arrested on charges of selling secret information about the design of nuclear power warships to someone they thought was a foreign power but was actually an undercover FBI agent.The Justice Department claims Jonathan Toebbe, through his Pentagon-issued national security clearance, had access to restricted data about naval nuclear technology and used that access to send a package to an unnamed foreign government on April 1, 2020.After that, the affidavit alleged he began corresponding with someone he believed to be an agent of another country, but who was an undercover FBI agent. The FBI did not disclose in the complaint how it obtained the package sent to the unnamed country or the name of the country. Toebbe, cautious that he may have been communicating with someone other than a representative of the unnamed country, asked the contact to place a sign within the embassy s property in Washington, D.C., to prove stanley quencher their credentials, the complaint said. Toebbe said he would travel to Washington over Memorial Day weekend of this year to look for the signal. T stanley quencher he signal will be inside our main building from Saturday morning until Sunday evening Memorial Day weekend, the FBI wrote to Toebbe. The FBI conducted an operation that involved placing a signal at a stanley cup location associated with the unnamed country, according to the complaint. Court documents claim the Navy engineer then a Jddv Obama salutes Kennedy Center honorees
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren Illinois Sen. Roland Burris told reporters Monday night that he tried to raise money for then-Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich before the governor appointed him to President Obama s former Senate seat. Blagojevich, of course, was impeached and removed from office following his arrest on corruption charg stanley website es, among them trying to effectively sell the seat to which he eventually named Burris.The Chicago Tribune first reported the news. AP In a prior affidavit, Burris had said that he told Blagojevich s brother Robert that he could not raise money for Rod Blagojevich because it could be viewed as an attempt to curry favor with him regarding his decision to appoint a successor to President Obama. But Burris told reporters last night that he talked to some people about trying to see if we could p stanley cups uk ut a fundraiser on, according to the Tribune. He said he eventually told Robert Blagojevich that his efforts to stanley cup solicit contributions had been unsuccessful. In another apparent inconsistency, Burris put out an affidavit this weekend contradicting a claim he made during testimony to the Blagojevich impeachment committee that he had only spoken to one Blagojevich associate about his interest in the Senate seat. Burris said in the affidavit he had spoken to four more people affiliated with the governor about the seat. Some Illinois Republicans are now calling for a perjury investigation of Burris, and Democratic Attorney Gene
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Hillary Clintonrsquo presidential campaign announced Saturday that it would participate in the recount efforts put into motion by the Green Partyrsquo Jill Stein earlier this week.The campaignrsquo general counsel, Marc Elias, wrote a post on the blogging site Medium to address the issue of the audits, which he said the campaign itself never undertook because it had not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology. [W]e had not planned to exercise this option ourselves, but now that a recount has been initiate stanley tumbler d in Wiscons stanley puodelis in, we intend to participate in order to ensure the process proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides, Elias wrote. If the Stein campaign files to do the same in Michigan and Pennsylvania, two other states where President-elect Donald Trumprsquo margin of victory remains slight, Elias said the campaign will take a similar approach. stanley cup Third-party candidate raises millions to fund vote recount 02:57 We do so fully aware that the number of votes separating Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the closest of these states 8202;- Michigan 8202;- well exceeds the largest margin ever overcome in a recount, he wrote. But regardless of the potential to change the outcome in an Txpk Man attempted car attack outside Pentagon and said I hate America, court documents say
CBS News John Edwards lawyers expect to get their first chance in court on Wednesday to challenge his chief accuser, Andrew Young. Young has been telling a vivid story about the former Democratic presidential candidate and his mistress.Will John Edwards take the stand in his trial High stakes for John Edwards at trial beginsJohnE stanley cup dwards incredible gambleThe prosecution spent the first two days of testimony questioning Young in a Greensboro, N.C., courtroom. Prosecutors believe the one-time campaign staffer could be the key to proving that Edwards accepted nearly $1 m stanley cup illion in illegal campaign contributions from wealthy donors and used them to hide his affair.In a packed courtroom, Young, the prosecution s star witness, testified about Edwards affair with campaign videographer Rielle Hunter, saying Edwards called his mistress a crazy slut when he found out she was pregnant. Young also said he and his wife were scared to death as they received checks as large as $150,000 marked as payment for furniture, when the money was being used to hide Edwards affair with Hunter. According to Young, Edwards came up with a plan to cover up the affair using nearly $1 million by wealthy donors, including reclusive heiress Rachel Bunny Mellon. The crux of the case here: did the donations constitute gifts, as Edwards defense stanley cup team claims, or did they amount to contributions to his campaign CBS News Legal Analyst Jack Ford discussed the Ed
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Donald Trump has come under fire for his praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin stanley cups and his ties to the country--and he suggested Sunday that he might recognize Russia s control of Crimea. You know, the people of Crimea, from what I ve heard, would rather be with Russia than whe stanley cup re they were, he said on ABC s This Week. And you have to look at that, also. Now, that was under -- just so you understand, stanley puodelis that was done under Obama s administration. ... Crimea has been taken. Don t blame Donald Trump for that. Trump made those comments just after saying Putin is not going into Ukraine. Well, look, you know, I have my own ideas. He s not going into Ukraine, OK Trump said of Putin. Just so you understand. He s not going to go into Ukraine, all right You can mark it down and you can put it down, you can take it anywhere you want. At that point in the interview, moderator George Stephanopoulos reminded Trump of Russia s 2014 annexation of Crimea and other parts of eastern Ukraine--which stands in seeming contradiction with Trump s insistence that Putin will steer clear of the country. OK, well, he s there in a certain way, but I m not there yet, he said. You have Obama there. And frankly, that whole part of the world is a mess under Obama, with all the strength that you re talking about and all of the power of NATO and all of this, in the meantime, he s going where -- he takes -- takes Crimea. The topic of Ukraine about the ne Nqpe Obama to create new national monuments in Texas, California, Nevada
Four years ago, there was perhaps no insult in politics worse than flip-flopper. Consider the case of Democratic nominee John Kerry, who infamously said that he actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it, in reference to his position on Iraq war funding bills. The comment was a boon to Kerry s Republican rivals, who repeatedly invoked the words to paint the Democratic nominee as a calculating politician who lacked the moral certainty to be a strong leader. To hammer the p stanley thermos mug oint home, volunteers showed up at Kerry rallies dressed as giant pairs of flip-flops and pasted his face on the sandals themselves. This tim stanley nz e around, however, flip-flopping doesn t appear to carry quite the same stigma. Barack Obama s decision last week to decline public financing clearly marked a reversal of his previous stated position, despite his campaign s tortured justifications and his surrogates arguments that Obama was acting in the spirit of reform of the public financing system. His Republican rival stanley quencher John McCain, meanwhile, who had long been an opponent of offshore drilling, has now come out in favor of doing so. McCain has also made support for the Bush tax cuts ndash; which he once opposed ndash; central to his economic platform. Despite these reversals, however, charges of flip-flopping do not hold the central position in the political discussion that they did back in the 2004 campaign. The current president, who takes pride in
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