However, some who remember Thérèse Coffey at Oxford University are surprised that “Tiz” has emerged as the official No 2 in government. It emerged that Coffey, who told the BBC on Wednesday she had been appointed to the health portfolio because of her “understanding of detail”, had to leave Oxford’s Somerville College after failing her chemistry exams. Coffey was a student there from October 1989 to March 1991, following in the footsteps of Margaret Thatcher, who graduated from Somerville after studying chemistry – a parallel noted approvingly on more than one occasion....

The high school Dr. Kelowna’s Knox will have significantly more room for students by fall 2024. On Tuesday, the provincial government announced $22.8 million in funding for a two-storey, 12-classroom addition to Glenmore Neighborhood School. The Central Okanagan School District will contribute an additional $500,000 to the project. Construction will begin in early 2023 with students housed in portables until construction is completed in 2024. Last year, the school was at 115 percent capacity....

Commenting on the diversity of the new cabinet, Mr Lammy told Times Radio: “I think we are a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural country. I remember when we won the Olympics and hosted the Olympics in 2012, that was the vision we presented to the world. “This story really started under Tony Blair with the appointment of people like Paul Boateng, Valerie Amos, Patricia Scotland who is now Commonwealth Secretary General, Valerie Amos, who runs an Oxford College....

The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said on Saturday that Ukraine’s Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant had been disconnected from its last external power line but was still able to pump electricity through a backup line amid continued shelling in the region. International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Raphael Grossi said in a statement that agency experts, who arrived in Zaporizhia on Thursday, were told by senior Ukrainian personnel that the fourth and final operational line was damaged....

Denys Shmyhal, who was received with military honors by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Sunday, is the most senior Ukrainian official to visit the German capital in months after Kyiv accused the EU’s biggest economy of doing too little. Starting his trip in Berlin, Shmyhal met the German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who was unable to visit Kyiv in April because of his past support for strong German-Russian ties....

Face à la hausse des prix de l’énergie, qui impacte tous les aspects de la vie quotidienne, comme les services publics, les piscines doivent aussi se serrer la ceinture. Ce lundi, Vert Marine, qui gère des dizaines de piscines en France pour le compte de collectivités locales, a annoncé la fermeture de plusieurs magasins, estimant ne plus pouvoir faire face à des factures qui explosent. Vert Marine a dû fermer « temporairement » un tiers de ses installations et placer « du personnel au chômage partiel », a-t-elle indiqué dans un communiqué transmis à l’AFP....

The yield on the 10-year note, seen as a proxy for borrowing costs around the world, rose 0.15 percentage points to 3.34%, while the yield on the 30-year note jumped to its highest level since 2014. US$23 trillion was widespread, with the yield on the politically sensitive two-year note climbing 0.11 percentage points to 3.50%. Bond yields rise as bond prices fall. Meanwhile, the tech-dominant Nasdaq Composite fell for a seventh straight session, its longest losing streak since November 2016....

District Court Judge William Conley says the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa has proven it had the right to revoke a permit for the pipeline to cross its territory in 2013. Conley also says the band, which wants the line removed from the Bad River reservation, is entitled to financial compensation — though the ruling didn’t go into detail on that front. The judge rejected the group’s bid to shut down the pipeline, however, citing the potential for serious foreign policy and trade implications for both Canada and the United States....

Staff at a rental car business in the 700 block of Courtney Street called police after discovering three of their vehicles had been damaged. Read more: Man stabbed in chest over cigarette dispute: Victoria Police After reviewing surveillance video, police say staff saw footage of a man and woman shortly before midnight on August 26, climbing and jumping onto vehicles. The cost of the damage is estimated to exceed $5,000....

rbb/Michael Lietz Video: rbb|24| 04.09.2022 | Material: rbb24 Brandenburger Strom | Bild: rbb/Michael Lietz Im Oderberggebiet werden vermehrt tote Fische angespült. Davor warnen die Behörden seit Sonntagnachmittag. Die Warnung vor einer möglichen Wasservergiftung wurde inzwischen zurückgenommen. Im Nordosten Brandenburgs warnte die Brandleitzentrale am Sonntag erneut vor toten Fischen. Betroffen ist das Naturschutzgebiet Niederoderbruch. Ausgehend von der Wriezener Alten Oder in der Region Oderberg werden immer mehr tote Fische wieder angespült, heißt es seit dem frühen Nachmittag....

Ohne Putin könnte Russland zu “Nordkorea auf Steroiden” werden. Ein ehemaliger Kreml-Berater beantwortet die Frage: Was passiert, wenn Wladimir Putin stirbt? Für ihn ist klar, dass das bisherige politische System zusammenbrechen würde – und Russland eine völlig neue Form annehmen könnte. 1/4 Was passiert mit Russland, wenn Wladimir Putin weg ist? Am Dienstag ist Michail Gorbatschow (†91), der frühere Präsident der Sowjetunion, gestorben. Der Tod des Spitzenpolitikers bewegt die Welt und wirft die Frage auf: Was, wenn der aktuelle Kremlchef Wladimir Putin (69) nicht mehr unter den Lebenden ist?...

When Natasha Harrison’s 20-year-old daughter Tatyanna stopped answering her texts, Harrison drove from Langley to Vancouver to file a missing person’s report and search the streets herself. For months, she combed downtown Vancouver, checking out women’s shelters and SROs and stopping strangers on the sidewalk. Send any leads and tips to the Vancouver Police Department. “I found the friends and I found the ex-boyfriends,” she said, speaking from her sunny backyard in Langley....

This is exactly what Eva showed at IFA. The Matter spec isn’t finalized yet, so none of the devices were running the final Matter-enabled firmware, but it was enough to see the kinds of features we can expect when Eve devices are updated to support it. Matter’s design makes it simple and seamless for users on different platforms to natively control the same smart home products. The result is a more cohesive experience, where whichever voice assistant you choose to use can control all of your Matter-enabled devices, and where configuration changes made to one device through an ecosystem will automatically be reflected everywhere else....

In a three-page decision issued Thursday, the Manitoba Court of Appeal granted a joint request by provincial prosecutors and John Paul Ostamas’ defense lawyer to vacate the consecutive life sentences handed down to the now 45-year-old in 2016. Ostamas pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree murder in the April 2015 deaths of homeless people Miles Monias, Stoney Stanley Busey and Donald Collins. The minimum sentence of 75 years without parole was the longest ever handed down in Manitoba....

ARIES (March 21 – April 20): If you allow yourself to get caught up in details this week, you’ll miss the bigger picture, which in turn could lead to you losing money. Stick to your long-term strategy and don’t get carried away by trivial things that don’t matter. TAURUS (April 21 – May 21): If you feel the need to prove yourself, you will have the opportunity in the next few days....

Eine Stunde vor seiner Festnahme hatte die Polizei eine Warnung vor einem mit einem Messer bewaffneten Mann in einem gestohlenen weißen Fahrzeug etwa hundert Kilometer vom Tatort entfernt herausgegeben. Stunden nach seiner Festnahme soll der 30-Jährige an einem “medizinischen Notfall” im Krankenhaus gestorben sein. Nähere Angaben zu den genauen Todesumständen machte die Polizei nicht. Nun gibt es eine Obduktion und eine “unabhängige, externe Untersuchung”. AP/The Canadian Press/Kelly Geraldine Malone Der zweite Verdächtige wurde nach mehreren Tagen auf der Flucht aus der Provinz Saskatchewan festgenommen...

Bernhard Ebner, ÖVP-Landesgeschäftsführer: „Das junge Team der Volkspartei Krems mit einem jungen Spitzenkandidaten konnte bei seiner ersten Wahl ein solides Ergebnis erreichen – wir konnten uns gut behaupten, vor allem gegen die SPÖ.“ Hikmet Arslan, Grünen-Landesgeschäftsführer: „Markus Schwarz hat als neuer, junger Spitzenkandidat der Grünen mit schwierigen Voraussetzungen unser Mandat gehalten und wird in Krems mit diesem Vertrauen der Wähler die kommunale Klimapolitik in den Vordergrund stellen.“ Udo Landbauer, Landesobmann der FPÖ: „Wenn wir den Bundestrend hereinholen wollen bei der Gemeinderatswahl, dann muss man schon erkennen, wie gut unsere Kremser Freunde gearbeitet haben....

Publié à 17h49 Tommy Chouinard La Presse Elle a répondu aux questions des journalistes en marge de la visite de la cheffe libérale Dominique Anglade au CPE Takinagan, de Lac-Simon, vendredi. Un rare passage d’un leader politique dans une communauté autochtone lors d’une campagne électorale. Pierre Dufour « n’a jamais répondu vraiment à nos besoins, surtout dans le dossier du caribou, a-t-elle affirmé. Ça a été comme vraiment une très mauvaise relation....

Apple’s “Far Out” event will begin at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT and the Apple Store is expected to return after the event concludes (likely with whatever products Apple announces at the event on full display). If you’ve somehow made it through the last few weeks without hearing anything about the “Far Out” event, Apple is expected to reveal quite a few things. There is the iPhone 14 series, which includes four models: iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max....

Leaked renders have revealed the design of the Apple Watch Pro ahead of its September 7 launch. The smartwatch could be the biggest in the Apple family and could feature a new programmable button. Apple’s event is just a day away now, and a leak has surfaced of the alleged design of the so-called Apple Watch Pro. Rumors about Apple’s first Pro smartwatch have been swirling for a while now. It’s expected to be a rugged smartwatch, and the CAD leaks shared by 91Mobiles show a chunky wearable indeed....