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Opinion: Competition commissioner’s challenge to Rogers-Shaw merger wasn’t a waste of taxpayer money

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:01:59 GMT

Jennifer Quaid, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of OttawaMonths after rejecting the Commissioner of Competition’s application to challenge the merger between Rogers and Shaw Communications, the Competition Tribunal ordered the commissioner to pay nearly $13 million in costs to Rogers and Shaw.On Aug. 28, the tribunal ruled that the commissioner’s approach to block the merger was “unreasonable,” although the Competition Bureau stands by its decision to challenge it.Since the costs will be covered by the Competition Bureau’s tax-funded budget, some think the commissioner was wrong to challenge the merger. They argue the tribunal’s decision shows that Commissioner Matthew Boswell’s approach is ineffective and should be abandoned.However, this interpretation is incorrect. Awarding costs is not an indictment of the losing party. Typically in cases like this, the winner receives some compensation for the expenses they incurred while presenting their case. The losing party is required to ...

Woman lying in Aurora hospital parking lot run over, killed

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:01:59 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Police say a woman who was lying down in a hospital parking lot was run over by a driver and killed.It happened Sunday morning in the parking lot at the Medical Center of Aurora, according to the Aurora Police Department. It's located at 1501 S. Potomac St. A future with legal MDMA in Colorado? There’s already a law on the books "The investigation revealed a woman was lying down in a lane of travel when she was run over by a Ford sedan going eastbound through the parking lot," police said in a release.The 55-year-old woman was pronounced dead on the scene. She will be identified by the Arapahoe County Coroner's Office. The driver was a 35-year-old man who remained on scene.Police said neither speed nor alcohol are believed to be contributing factors. The crash remains under investigation.Anyone with information was asked to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867 (STOP).

Toddler St. Jude patient now 5 years into remission and in the first grade

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:01:59 GMT

MEMPHIS, Colo. (KDVR) — Less than 5,000 tickets are left for the St. Jude Dream Home giveaway.FOX31 took a trip to the St. Jude’s campus in Memphis to learn the lifesaving impacts these ticket sales help fund. How St. Jude helped save a local child from cancer Some kids bring playing cards to show and tell, but not Olivia. Last year, the 7-year-old decided to share her port with her first-grade class. Olivia’s teacher captured the special presentation — and the admiration from her classmates.“Today, you would never know that she ever was a patient at St. Jude,” said Kacie, Olivia’s mom. “She’s full head of hair, full energy, full muscle strength, in school, you know, reading on an advanced level.”Diagnosed at 2 years oldFor Olivia, it’s been quite the journey to get to five years in remission. She was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia when she was just 2-and-a-half years old.“Totally took us by surprise. And we spent about 33 months in and out of St. Jude,” Kacie said. “...

Bicyclist fatally struck by pickup driver in NE Miami-Dade hit-and-run

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:01:59 GMT

Police are searching for the driver of a pickup truck who, they said, struck and killed a woman who was riding her bicycle in Northeast Miami-Dade, then fled the scene.Miami-Dade Police and Fire Rescue units responded to the scene of the hit-and-run at the intersection of Northeast 14th Avenue and 205th Terrace, just after 10 a.m., Sunday.Investigators said the 20-year-old victim was riding her bike when she was hit by a gold Toyota Tundra.Detectives said the driver of the truck fled in an unknown direction.Paramedics rushed the cyclist to Aventura Hospital where she succumbed to her injuries.Police said the Tundra is a model between 2007 and 2013.If you have any information on this hit-and-run or the driver’s whereabouts, call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a reward of up to $5,000.

Dwayne Johnson surprises Deion Sanders as Colorado continues winning start to season

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:01:59 GMT

(CNN) — Hollywood star Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson reduced University of Colorado head coach Deion Sanders to the brink of tears on Saturday, surprising him on the set of ESPN’s College “GameDay.”“Coach Prime is changing the face of college football and he’s doing it his way but he’s also doing it in a way that is galvanizing not only a town in Boulder, Colorado but also galvanizing an entire country,” the Rock said.“You’re going to make me cry, man,” Sanders replied before joking: “All recruits, did you hear what he said?”Before that, it had been Sanders praising the Rock, getting down onto his knees to welcome the actor onto ESPN’s show.The Colorado Buffaloes narrowly avoided an upset against the Colorado State Rams to take a double-overtime 43-35 win and extend their winning streak to 3-0 this season.Sanders’ son, Shedeur, masterminded a game-tying 98-yard scoring drive from quarterback in the last two minutes of regulation time before throwing two touchdowns in overtime to seal vi...

Taiwan says 103 Chinese warplanes flew toward the island in a new daily high in recent times

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:01:59 GMT

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan says 103 Chinese warplanes flew toward the island in a new daily high in recent times.Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said that it detected the planes in the 24-hour period ending at 6 a.m. on Monday.China’s military regularly sends planes over waters south and west of Taiwan. The island’s Defense Ministry said that 40 of the planes detected Sunday and early Monday crossed the symbolic median line between Taiwan and mainland China.Taiwan is a self-governing island that is claimed by China. China has conducted increasingly large military drills in the air and waters around Taiwan in what some see as a campaign of intimidation.

Poland’s ruling party hopes call for German war reparations can swing election

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:01:59 GMT

CZĘSTOCHOWA, Poland — Agnieszka Majewska, a grandmother and retired shop worker from a village near Lublin in eastern Poland, has no doubt it is high time for Germany to compensate Poles for the murderous devastation it wrought during World War II.We are standing outside the Chapel of Our Lady at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa. It is packed with worshippers, as every day of the year. They kneel and pray where the young seminarian Karol Wojtyła — later Pope John Paul II — made a secret visit during World War II, when the occupying Germans banned pilgrimages to Poland’s most important shrine. There was good reason for the Nazis to fear such pilgrimages: The chapel houses the revered Black Madonna of Częstochowa, a four-foot-high icon credited by the Polish faithful with inspiring monks to defy a siege by a previous horde of invaders — the Swedes — in a near-miraculous victory in 1655. No intervention spared Poland from the carnage of the 1939-1945 war. Nearly 6 mill...

This year’s COP could be the most important yet

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:01:59 GMT

Michael Bloomberg is a United Nations Special Envoy and former mayor of New York City.In a year when the climate has roared with unprecedented ferocity — with more and more people confronting a daily reality of debilitating heat, deadly wildfires and flooding, and devastating droughts — the long-term benchmarks that guide global climate talks have never felt so futile.The focus of this year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP28) cannot be 2050 or 2040 or even 2035. It must be on the here and now, and it must produce new action that will dramatically reduce emissions by 2030.I have long warned against decades-long time horizons for climate goals because they serve as excuses for dangerous delay and inaction. By this point, the warning sign should be flashing red.As this year looks to be the hottest in recorded history, we have seen alarming new evidence of two connected shifts that could bring catastrophe: the accelerating melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which co...

Putin exposes the myth of Austria’s victimhood

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:01:59 GMT

VIENNA — No one does victimhood quite like Austria.Over the past century, the Central European country has presented itself to the outside world as an innocent bystander on an island of gemütlichkeit, doing what it can to get by in a treacherous global environment.“Austria was always apolitical,” insists Herr Karl, the archetypal Austrian opportunist, brought to life in 1961 by Helmut Qualtinger, the country’s greatest satirist. “We were never political people.”Recalling Austria’s collaboration with the Nazis, Herr Karl, a portly stockist who speaks in a working-class Viennese dialect, was full of self pity: “We scraped a bit of cash together — we had to make a living…How we struggled to survive!”Russia’s war on Ukraine offers a bitter reminder that Austria remains a country of Herr Karls, playing all sides, professing devotion to Western ideals, even as they quietly look for ways to continue to profit from the country’s friendly relations with Moscow.The most glaring example of thi...

Liz Truss will never give up

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:01:59 GMT

LONDON — Her term in office was famously shorter-lived than a salad vegetable. But that doesn’t mean Liz Truss is ready to admit she was wrong.A year on from the pivotal event of her doomed premiership — the ill-fated “mini-budget which sent U.K. financial markets into a tailspin — one might expect the former British prime minister to mark the anniversary in silence … or perhaps in hiding. Not Liz Truss. On Monday Truss will try to take ownership of the narrative with a high-profile speech in Westminster to mark the anniversary, defending her economic record and setting out a “vision” for faster growth.Truss will insist her tax-cutting policies, had they been fully implemented, would have triggered significant investment into the U.K. and sparked long-term improvements to economic growth — and only had to be junked due to intense pressure from “the political and economic establishment.” “I was effectively forced into a policy reversal under the thr...