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Irish dancers, Gaelic football players, green everything: Thousands of spectators gathered for the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Kansas City, Mo., on Sunday, the first citywide parade since a deadly shooting last month roiled the city’s Super Bowl celebration.The St. Patrick’s Day parade, the city’s 50th this year, is regarded as one of the country’s largest, with crowds known to reach hundreds of thousands. On Sunday, a sizable — but notably smaller — crowd sporting green beanies, vests, cowboy hats and sweatshirts came together, even under high winds and chilly temperatures. The parade showcased Gaelic Athletic Club members demonstrating their…

The Sask. Party remains the preferred political party on top issues among Saskatchewan voters, but it is seeing its lowest approval rating in four years. That’s according to an Angus Reid poll, which surveyed 504 Saskatchewan residents on how they felt about the leaders of the province’s political parties and how the parties rank on top issues.The poll said 62 per cent of respondents felt the Sask. Party government wasn’t handling cost-of-living issues well. The same percentage felt education was also being mishandled, and the government did not score strongly on health care. 2:00 STF calls province’s education budget announcement…

With the till topped up to the tune of $3.2 million, courtesy of a joint venture (JV) deal with budding producer Delta Lithium, Reach Resources has landed boots on ground at its Wabli Creek project in its hunt for niobium and rare earths in Western Australia’s Gascoyne region.It comes after the company completed a tenement-wide soil geochemical survey over its Wabli Creek tenure late last year, lighting up a string of compelling anomalies indicative of niobium, rare earths and lithium mineral systems.A total of 1489 samples were collected across the two tenements that make up the Wabli Creek project, returning…

Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Chuck Berry died on this day in history, March 18, 2017, at age 90.”Chuck Berry was arguably the founding father of rock ‘n’ roll,” said Neil Portnow, Recording Academy president and CEO, in an article on the Grammy Awards website upon Berry’s death. “Not just because he was one of its greatest songwriters and established some of the electric guitar’s earliest and most memorable riffs, but also because he was one of music’s most palpably exciting entertainers and biggest personalities,” said Portnow in the same article. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, MARCH 17, 1776, BRITISH TROOPS FLEE BOSTON…

Law firm behind class action says outcome among most successful legal actions ever taken against the ride-sharing giant.Uber has agreed to pay $178m to settle a lawsuit with taxi and hire car drivers in Australia who say they lost earnings to the ride-hailing app, a law firm has announced. Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, which filed the class action on behalf of more than 8,000 taxi and hire car owners and drivers in 2019, said the outcome was one of the most successful legal actions ever taken against the ride-sharing giant. “Uber fought tooth and nail at every point along the way,…

A Republican congressional candidate in northwest Ohio is setting his sights on a seat held by a vulnerable Democrat incumbent in a race that he says comes down to a clash between the entrenched establishment class and the voters.”People locally have encouraged me to run for Congress for years,” Republican Ohio state Rep. Derek Merrin, 38, told Fox News Digital about his decision to run for the seat held by Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur. “I finally decided to pull the trigger. I’m a constitutional conservative. I believe our country is in trouble because the federal government has gone outside the…

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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has shot back at B.C. Premier David Eby’s comment that his plea to halt a federal carbon price increase is a “baloney factory” campaign tactic. Poilievre told The Roy Green Show on Saturday that Eby’s “constituents can’t even afford to buy baloney after eight years of him, and the NDP and Liberal coalition.” “He should talk to his own citizens in British Columbia who can’t afford to eat, heat and house themselves and join with the seven other premiers who have called on Trudeau to spike this April 1st tax hike,” he said.In a letter sent Friday,…

NRL head of football Graham Annesley has defended the match review committee’s decision to suspend Storm halfback Jahrome Hughes for one match, declaring “it’s never acceptable to push a referee”.Hughes was hit with a grade two contrary conduct charge for making contact with referee Chris Butler during Saturday’s epic win over the Warriors, and while most people thought he did nothing wrong, the Storm accepted the ban, not willing to risk their star playmaker missing two games if found guilty.The representative playmaker was trying to tackle Rocco Berry and pushed Butler out of the way, with Hughes copping a suspension…

It’s a numbers game. Over the next decade, roughly 300 million Chinese will enter retirement – the equivalent of almost the entire US population. One in every two people aged over 65 in the Asia-Pacific region will live in China by 2040, Euromonitor estimates. While China’s demographic crisis is threatening its industrial base, government finances and poverty alleviation efforts, some investors see the growing pool of elderly as a sure bet. Mama Sunset, which offers 20 different classes to thousands of Chinese aged 50-plus, is in talks with domestic investors to expand to 200 franchised centres across the country in…