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Gil Penalosa, who is the founder of the non-profit organization 8 80 Cities, officially filed his papers to be executed this week. He’s the 12th candidate to throw his hat in the ring so far, but becomes arguably the highest-profile challenger to John Tory with just 100 days to go until Torontonians head to the polls on Oct. 24. “I honestly expected someone to run and I would have worked for them....

Ukrainian officials say a steady flow of Russian military equipment continues to move west from Mariupol to other areas of southern Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces are on the offensive. The claim is supported by recent geo-tagged video of Russian armored vehicles moving in areas of southern Ukraine. We continue to record the movement of military equipment through Mariupol,” Petro Andryushenko, an adviser to the mayor of occupied Mariupol, said on Sunday....

New statistics from Health Quality Ontario show patients waited an average of 2.1 hours to see a doctor in an Ontario emergency room in May, up from 1.9 hours in April. In Ottawa, the average wait time to see a doctor for a first evaluation in the emergency room was between 1.9 and 3.7 hours. CHEO reported an average wait of 3.7 hours for a first physician evaluation in May, up from 3....

Authorities responded to a horrific crash in Staten Island that left three dead and several others injured Sunday night, police said. All the victims were teenagers, officials said. They were in a red Ford Mustang that collided with a GMC Yukon, the New York Daily News reported. Police responded to the crash on Victory Avenue in the Tottenville neighborhood around 8:50 p.m., according to the report. The impact of the crash was enough to break the Mustang in two, photos and videos at the scene showed....

It could be another six or seven years again before the Old Course returns to the Open rota. “If it’s that long, I don’t know if I’ll be able to compete physically at that level until then. It’s also one of the reasons I wanted to play in this league. I don’t know what my career will be like. I know I’m never going to play a full schedule again....

Later, in a phone call, that parent said her child told her she had seen their teacher taping her daughter Shelly to a chair in their classroom to keep her from standing up so much. “I was in shock,” said Shelly, who is a pseudonym. CBC News agreed not to use her name to protect the identity of her daughter, a kindergarten student. “I kept going over it in my head....

A man was shot and is confirmed to have life-threatening injuries, police said. Toronto doctors treated the man. Shootings: (UPDATE)York St & Bremner Blvd– officers confirmed shots fired– officers locate man with gunshot wound, injuries are life-threatening– @TorontoMedics o/s – tending to patient– Union Station is on lockdown @TorontoUnion – will update#GO1360743^al — Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) July 17, 2022 Story continues below ad The shooting took place at the intersection of York St....

Comment Former President Donald Trump’s fundraising slowed in the first half of 2022, falling below $50 million in a half for the first time since he left the White House 18 months ago. A fundraising committee that directs money to his various political groups raised $17 million in the second quarter of this year, according to a new federal filing. That brings the commission’s take to at least $36 million so far this year....

Donald Trump hosted a chaotic six-hour meeting at the White House in which he discussed ordering the military to seize voting machines in a bid to overturn his election loss, before issuing his infamous tweet calling for supporters who would eventually storm Congress of the USA. The meeting, described on Tuesday by the congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021 riot on Capitol Hill, took place on December 18, 2020, four days after the Electoral College had confirmed Mr....

The lawsuit, filed in a Delaware court, is by far the most complete rebuttal by Twitter to allegations by Mr. Musk that culminated when his lawyer told the company on Friday that he intended to abandon his deal with Twitter’s board of directors. 74 days earlier. Twitter’s lawyers also made a series of accusations of their own about how Mr. Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, conducted himself before and after the April 25 deal....

Einen Tag später ergänzten die Anwälte von Twitter die Klage: Musk glaubt wohl, er könne einfach aus einem eingegangenen Vertrag aussteigen, das Unternehmen diffamieren, das Geschäft stören und den Shareholder Value zerstören. „Musks Verhalten bestätigt, dass er beabsichtigt, aus dem bindenden Vertrag, den er unterschrieben hat, auszusteigen und dabei Twitter zu schaden“, heißt es in dem Dokument. Twitter führt die Aktionen von Musk auf den Abschwung an den Aktienmärkten zurück, der sowohl den Wert von Twitter als auch das Vermögen von Musk geschrumpft hat....

Thomas Campbell, 38, was found dead at an address in Riverside in Mossley at around 10.30am last Sunday. In what detectives describe as “huge steps”, two men, aged 31 and 37, were arrested on Thursday and Friday. Both remain in custody. An investigation into the murder is proceeding at a “rapid pace”, Greater Manchester Police said. “These arrests are huge steps in our murder investigation as we piece together the horrific attack and give the family the answers they so desperately need,” said Detective Inspector Mark Davies from the Major Incident Squad....

The psychic has become a bit of Nostradamus-like folklore for her infamous predictions of what would happen in the future. It seems that some of these premonitions are happening right now around the world. He predicted that several Asian countries and Australia would be hit by “severe flooding”. Credit: Harley Kingston Stock Photo/Alamy Well, if you’ve seen Australia recently, then you’ll know it’s been hyped. Parts of Australia were inundated by heavy rainfall earlier this year, which caused large-scale flooding and mass evacuations....

Baerbock lehnte auch Forderungen nach einem sofortigen Waffenstillstand und Verhandlungen ab, wie sie in einem offenen Brief von mehreren deutschen Prominenten gefordert wurden. “Als Ukrainerin fände ich den Brief naiv, verstörend, arrogant”, sagte sie. “Welches Recht hätte ausgerechnet eine deutsche Außenministerin, für die Ukraine zu entscheiden, welchen Teil ihres Landes sie abliefern, wie viele Millionen ihrer Bürger sich der russischen Herrschaft unterwerfen sollen?” Mit dem russischen Außenminister Sergej Lawrow hatte sie laut Baerbock seit Kriegsbeginn keinen direkten Kontakt mehr....

The Athens News Agency (ANA) reported that an investigation will be launched into the causes of the accident. “We heard a deafening noise (and saw) a fireball approaching the ground. Then came the explosion,” Sofia, a mother of three from the nearby village of Antifilipoi, told ANA. Local resident Giorgos Archontopoulos told state-run ERT that he felt something was wrong as soon as he heard the aircraft overhead. “At 22:45 I was startled by the sound of the plane’s engine,” he said....

Claims of casualties were made by the Russian-installed city administration and could not be immediately verified, although footage on social media showed a large explosion lighting up the night, burning ammunition and smoke. The blast hit a warehouse near a key railway line and a dam on the Dnipro River. Images from Nasa Firms Global Fire Monitoring System showed a series of secondary fires in buildings around the original blast site....

Die WKStA listet, wie berichtet, vier ehemalige Spitzenpolitiker der Bundes-SPÖ aus der Zeit Werner Faymanns auf. Unter ihnen waren der damalige Bundesminister Josef Ostermayer und der ehemalige Bundesgeschäftsführer Norbert Darabos. Mit dabei ist auch die ehemalige Meinungsforscherin und ÖVP-Ministerin Sophie Karmasin. Das geht aus einem Vermerk auf dem Genehmigungsformular der Staatsanwaltschaft hervor, das Ö1 zugespielt wurde. Die WKStA bestätigte, dass einem Anfangsverdacht nachgegangen und eine geschlossene Akte angelegt wurde, derzeit aber niemand als Tatverdächtiger oder Beschuldigter genannt wird....

L’étude a révélé l’importance de MolecuLight pour informer les cliniciens sur la présence et l’emplacement de bactéries cliniquement importantes et pour améliorer les plans de traitement et les résultats par rapport aux méthodes de diagnostic conventionnelles LEEDS, Royaume-Uni et TORONTO, 13 juillet 2022 /PRNewswire/ — MolecuLightInc., le leader de l’imagerie par fluorescence pour la détection et la localisation d’une charge bactérienne élevée dans les plaies, a annoncé la publication d’un essai contrôlé randomisé, en aveugle et indépendant dans Traitements diabétiques....