• The Telegraph

    Removing Tory whip from Lee Anderson was a mistake, says Kwasi Kwarteng

    Removing the Tory party whip from Lee Anderson was a mistake which “inflamed the situation”, Kwasi Kwarteng has said.

  • Local Journalism Initiative

    Brant, Haldimand-Norfolk health units push for merger

    After months of flirting with the idea of joining forces, the Haldimand-Norfolk and Brant County health units have made it official. The health boards governing the three rural counties and the City of Brantford announced April 26 they have signed a letter of intent to merge. The move comes in response to the province calling for voluntary merger proposals from Ontario’s 34 health units. The impetus behind amalgamating smaller and rural health units is to “reduce overlap of services and focus re

  • Reuters

    US productivity slows sharply in first quarter

    U.S. worker productivity growth slowed sharply in the first quarter, resulting in a surge in labor costs, but the trend in productivity remained solid. Nonfarm productivity, which measures hourly output per worker, increased at a 0.3% annualized rate last quarter after rising at a 3.5% pace in the October-December period, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Thursday. The government on Friday corrected productivity data from 2019 through 2023 due to a computation error.