January 22, 2025

January 22, 2025

22 January 2025 / by David McQueen

News

Copy by Craig Foster – Extreme cold coming to an end later this morning. Wind chill values near minus 30 to as low as minus 35.

Quinte West’s Integrity Commissioner is recommending city council reprimand Councillor Duncan Armstrong for a gesture he made toward a member of the public at a November 6 council meeting. Armstrong admitted to pointing a finger at a man in council chambers with the gesture appearing as if he was firing a gun at the man. Previous reports were that that man was Ed Santos who had been urging council to change strategy in regards to maintenance upgrades at Trent Port Marina. Armstrong told the Commissioner he meant no ill will toward Santos. Commissioner Tony Fleming said the gesture was clearly showing disrespect and was below the standard of conduct expected from a councillor. He recommends council reprimand Armstrong and ask that he make a public apology.

U.S. President Donald Trump ‘s administration moved Tuesday to end affirmative action in federal contracting and directed that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off. The moves follow an executive order Trump signed on his first day ordering a sweeping dismantling of the federal government’s diversity and inclusion programs that could touch on everything from anti-bias training to funding for minority farmers and homeowners. Trump has called the programs “discrimination” and insisted on restoring strictly “merit-based” hiring. The executive order on affirmative action revokes an order issued by U.S. president Lyndon Johnson, and curtails DEI programs by federal contractors and grant recipients.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s office has responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s intentions to impose tariffs on Canadian goods next week by sending an internal email to Progressive Conservative staffers, telling them the majority government needs a stronger mandate to effectively negotiate during a potential trade war. The Monday night email is perhaps the strongest sign yet that Ford intends to call an early election in 2025. In it, Ford’s chief of staff said he had a “brief but important update” in light of Trump’s planned tariffs.

Prince Harry has settled his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) over alleged unlawful information gathering, his lawyer said on Wednesday, after the start of a long-awaited trial was unexpectedly delayed. Harry was suing the publisher of the Sun and the long-defunct News of the World at the High Court in London, alleging NGN unlawfully obtained private information about him from 1996 until 2011. News Group offered a “full and unequivocal apology to the Duke of Sussex” for “the phone hacking, surveillance and misuse of private information by journalists and private investigators instructed by them,” according to a statement Harry’s lawyer, David Sherborne, read in court. Harry’s lawyer, David Sherborne, said a deal had been struck with NGN agreeing to pay significant damages and that NGN had admitted he had been the victim of unlawful activity by the Sun and had suffered phone-hacking at the hands of the News of the World.

Sports

A neat and tidy victory got the Wellington Dukes back to their winning ways on Tuesday afternoon. Ben Vreugdenhil registered three points and Jacob Brown posted his first shutout as a Duke in a 3-0 blanking of the Markham Royals.

Pierre-Luc Dubois had a goal and an assist as the league-leading Washington Capitals won their fifth game in a row, defeating the Edmonton Oilers 3-2 on Tuesday.

Igor Shesterkin made 20 saves, Alexis Lafreniere had a goal and an assist, and the New York Rangers beat the Ottawa Senators 5-0

Jiri Kulich had a goal and two assists and the Buffalo Sabres rallied to beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-2

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected Tuesday along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner. Suzuki received 393 of 394 votes from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Sabathia was on 342 ballots and Wagner on 325, which was 29 more than the 296 needed for the required 75 per cent. Sabathia and Suzuki were elected in their first appearance on the ballot. Wagner made it on his 10th and final try

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