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housands of nurses in Britain walked out Wednesday in a new protest over pay, with no end in sight to a wave of strikes that has piled pressure on the UK’s overburdened public health system. Two 12-hour nursing strikes on Wednesday and Thursday affect about a quarter of hospitals and clinics in England. Emergency care and cancer treatment will continue, but thousands of appointments and procedures are likely to be postponed. With more walkouts by nurses planned for next month — and ambulance workers announcing a new slate of February strikes — the Conservative government is under growing pressure to lift its…

Toronto police are asking for the public help to identify a suspect wanted in a downtown sexual assault investigation. The incident happened on Dec. 29, 2022 at about 7:25 p.m. near King and Portland streets. According to police, a woman was walking in that area when a man allegedly followed her and sexually assaulted her. The suspect is described as six-foot tall and about 35 years old. He was last seen wearing a grey toque, a white hoodie, a long black coat, grey pants, and brown boots.

Police have recovered nearly 200 stolen appliances that they say were stolen from warehouses across Peel Region. Peel Regional Police were first dispatched to a commercial logistics warehouse in Brampton on Jan. 7 after receiving a 911 call, indicating that several suspects had been seen loading a truck with appliances. Police say that investigators were able to identify the suspects and subsequently executed a search warrant at a Mississauga business. A total of 176 appliances that were stolen from three separate warehouses were recovered during the execution of that search warrant, along with a prohibited handgun and a quantity of ammunition. Police…

Caminando Fronteras (Walking Borders) said that the figure included 288 women and 101 children. Some 1,784 of the migrants died while trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands by boat, it said. But the migrant rights group also raised alarm over the “invisibility” of an increasingly popular route from Algeria to Spain’s eastern Mediterranean coast. At least 464 people died trying to reach Europe on this route in 2022, it said. Caminando Fronteras says it compiles its own figures from families of migrants and rescue statistics. The International Organization for Migration, which uses official figures, has said that 2,556 people lost…

While many Canadians struggled and saw their financial health deteriorate during the pandemic, the rich got richer. A new report by Britain’s Oxfam International found that Canadian billionaires saw their wealth grow by a staggering 51 per cent since the pandemic began. “This accelerated a trend that was already driving wealth inequality in Canada over the past decade,” Oxfam Canada reported. The figures were released in a report titled ‘Survival of the richest: how we must tax the superrich now to fight inequality,’ issued Monday just ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. All numbers are in U.S.…

Apple Inc. AAPL -0.11%decrease; red down pointing triangle unveiled its latest iteration of the MacBook Pro, a move that will test its sway with consumers as demand for personal computers is expected to slump. The Cupertino, Calif., company on Tuesday said its new MacBook Pro features its next-generation pro silicon chip that enables a more power-efficient performance and battery life, among other enhancements. Apple said its new MacBook models are available to order in select countries and regions, with prices ranging from $1,999 to $2,499. It will include the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips, Apple’s in-house designed chip. They are an evolution from its M1 chip,…

The WNBA will play a pre-season game in Toronto in May — a giant first step towards possible expansion and the first time the league has ever played in Canada. A pre-season game between the Minnesota Lynx and Chicago Sky on May 13 at the Scotiabank Arena will serve as the first test for the viability of a Canadian expansion team, the league has announced. “This is a way to assess the popularity of the sport in Canada,” WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert said in a conference call with reporters. “We’re certainly excited to see how the market responds and certainly the fans in…

The sprinting legend was told last week that his money was missing shortly before Stocks and Securities Limited went public detailing a massive internal fraud plot that cost clients approximately $1.2 billion, according to Jamaica Observer. Bolt is among over 30 people who have reportedly been victimized by the nefarious actions of a wealth advisor at SSL. “Last Thursday SSL issued a statement saying that it had ‘become aware of fraudulent activity by a former employee of the company,’” reports The Observer. “The company said that following initial internal investigations it ‘referred the matter to the relevant law enforcement authorities to…

Wauzhushk Onigum Nation in northern Ontario says it has uncovered 171 “plausible burials” in studies of cemetery grounds at a former residential school site. The First Nation says with the exception of five grave markers, the rest are unmarked. In a news release Tuesday afternoon, the First Nation says the site linked to the former St. Mary’s Residential School in Kenora, Ont., has been secured in accordance with Anishinaabe protocols. The First Nation says the anomalies, which it also calls “plausible burials,” were found during studies conducted by its technical, archeological and ground-penetrating-radar team. The release says the First Nation is meeting…

Ontario Provincial Police sounded the alarm last week after four people in the Simcoe-Muskoka area died from suspected opioid overdoses in a span of four days. The warning advised the public that a “highly potent and potentially fatal strain” of illicit opioid may be circulating in Simcoe County and the District Municipality of Muskoka. But experts in the region say the area has been hit hard by the opioid crisis, and four overdose deaths in a week isn’t uncommon. Data from the Simcoe-Muskoka health unit at the end of 2022 shows an average of 13 people in the region wind…