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EconomicsLabour’s ‘chaotic’ zero-hour crackdown could cost firms £3bn per year
Labour’s ‘chaotic’ crackdown on zero-hour contracts could cost businesses nearly £3bn every year, though firms have warned the real cost could spiral even higher. The cost of the new rules, which include offering guaranteed-hour contracts to flexible employees and paying workers for cancelled shifts, has been revealed in a government impact assessment. The reforms could […]
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Property, violent crimes drive increase in youth charges: StatCan
In 2025-2026, 56,956 Canadian youth between the ages of 12 and 17 at the time of their offences were charged with a crime, 12,891 of those being a crime 'against property.'
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Karoline Leavitt to step down as Trump’s White House press secretary
Leavitt, who at 28 is the youngest person ever to hold the role, just recently returned to the White House after taking a brief leave for the birth of her second child in May.
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Canadian drilling firm says it did not move unpermitted rig to Greenland
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Nick Reiner indicted for murder of parents Rob and Michele Reiner
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Anthropic’s Claude will watermark AI-generated text. Here’s how it works
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