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Attorney General-designate Matt Gaetz returned to his former stomping ground Wednesday to schmooze Republican senators alongside Vice President-elect JD Vance, as a House panel prepared to debate whether to release a potentially explosive report about the Republican ex-Florida congressman’s alleged drug abuse and sexual misconduct. Gaetz, 42, smiled at photographers as he entered the Capitol … Read more

Montreal was one of the few municipalities in Quebec charging a special tax to shelters and transitional housing. The city’s 2025 budget ends the practice. “We can now breathe a little easier on the financial front,” James Hughes, president and CEO of Old Brewery Mission, said upon learning of the cancelation of the special tax. … Read more

‘We could not support an unconditional ceasefire that failed to release the hostages,’ Robert Wood, the deputy U.S. ambassador to the UN, told the council U.S. Alternate Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in the Middle East on Nov. 20, 2024, at … Read more

The average single-family home in the city, now valued at roughly $720,000, would see a tax rise of about $135. Montreal received $40 million more from the so-called welcome tax — the amount charged on real-estate transactions.Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Montreal Gazette After two years of steep increases totalling nearly 10 per cent, Montreal residential … Read more

Jose Ibarra, the illegal immigrant and Tren de Aragua gang member accused of viciously murdering 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley, was found guilty of all charges in an Athens, Georgia courtroom Wednesday. Judge Patrick Haggard handed down the guilty verdicts on a range of charges, returning to the bench just 19 minutes after the prosecution … Read more

The Association des optométristes du Québec plans to challenge the government’s ministerial order. According to the Association des optométristes du Québec, about 55 per cent of optometrists’ patients are covered by the public plan. Photo by Derek Baldwin A day before the majority of Quebec optometrists were to withdraw from the province’s public health plan, … Read more

Mayor Eric Adams will reinstate the next two NYPD classes — adding 1,600 cops to the ranks by next fall — after they were axed by painful budget cuts to cover the migrant crisis, The Post has learned. The long-awaited infusion of rookie cops to the nation’s largest police force will add officers to its … Read more