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The Canadian government will not use troops against truckers whose nearly week-long protest of coronavirus vaccine mandates has brought traffic in central Ottawa to a halt, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday. More than 200 trucks and other vehicles have been blockading downtown roads in the nation’s capital since last Friday in what is an unprecedented protest by Canadian standards. Organizers say drivers plan to hold similar protests in Toronto, the country’s most populous city and its financial hub, and Quebec City later this week amid growing frustration over almost two years of restrictions imposed to fight COVID-19. Ottawa…

Britain endured an economic ‘Black Thursday’ yesterday as the Bank of England warned that households face the worst fall in living standards since records began more than 30 years ago. The Bank predicted that spending power would tumble by 2 per cent this year – with wage rises failing to keep up with the soaring cost of living. This would be only the third time that so-called real income has fallen for a calendar year since 1990, the year Margaret Thatcher was forced out of office. Yesterday the central bank put up interest rates from 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent. Policymakers…

For a long time it wasn’t pretty, but with this Senegal side it rarely is. Not that they will mind. Senegal are the great underachievers of the Africa Cup of Nations and if they beat Cameroon or Egypt on Sunday to lift the trophy for the first time, nobody will much care how they did it. Aliou Cissé’s job is not to entertain but to win. This was a game that followed the classic Cissé pattern: rugged solidity to start, gradually squeezing the opponent into mistakes before late strikes: eight of the nine goals Senegal have scored in Cameroon have come after…

Senior Conservative lawmaker Tobias Ellwood said he would submit a letter of no confidence in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday, saying so-called ‘partygate’ was distracting the government at a time of international crisis. Johnson is facing calls to resign after weeks of a steady drip of reports alleging his aides, and he himself, had staged and attended parties in his Downing Street office and residence at a time when millions of Britons were under COVID-19 lockdowns. Ellwood, chair of parliament’s defence select committee and a former junior minister, was the latest Conservative lawmaker to say he would submit…

True cost of temporary Covid treatment sites revealed as one facility is said to have treated ‘roughly’ seven people since opening The Nightingale surge hubs cost more than £10.6 million to set up but have admitted roughly seven patients, it has emerged. Eight temporary sites were built at hospitals across the country during the height of the omicron wave, with the capacity to house about 100 patients each. However, it has now been revealed that the hubs cost £10,672,088 to build and only one has admitted a handful of patients. The surge hub at the Royal Preston Hospital in Lancashire, which was…

Companies handed a combined £1.3bn in controversial fast-track Covid contracts with minimal scrutiny also claimed at least £1m in furlough grants, it can be revealed. Analysis of the accounts of companies that won lucrative emergency contracts to supply personal protective equipment (PPE) to the NHS during the height of the pandemic shows 12 also claimed funds to put staff on furlough at taxpayers’ expense. Many had no prior history of supplying PPE but received huge boosts in revenue after securing deals to supply items ranging from gowns to masks. Overall the scramble to obtain PPE resulted in the Department of Health and Social Care…

A COVID-19 testing company faked test results and didn’t have licenses to operate testing sites, according to a new lawsuit. The Center for COVID Control claimed to provide free COVID-19 tests throughout Washington state and promised to provide results within 48 hours. But in reality, the company gathered patient insurance information and provided “invalid COVID-19 test results or no results at all,” according to the 14-page suit, filed in King County Superior Court by state Attorney General Robert Ferguson. Former employees told prosecutors that the company, which lacked licenses to operate in much of the state, wasn’t able to process all of the…

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has said the manner of his departure from Arsenal “hurts” as he waits to be announced as a Barcelona player and has insisted he was always “100% focused and committed” at the club. The 32-year-old was pictured training with Barcelona after being released by Arsenal and signing a contract at Camp Nou. Aubameyang wrote on Instagram: “To the Arsenal fans, Thank you for making London home for myself and my family for the past four years. We went through ups and downs together and your support meant everything to me. “Having the chance to win trophies and the honour of being the…

£2.6bn was spent on kit ‘not suitable’ for use in NHS last year, as report reveals huge losses. Boris Johnson’s government has been accused of “wasting” billions on unusable personal protective equipment (PPE) and buying kit at inflated prices, after a report revealed the huge scale of losses. The department of health’s annual accounts report revealed that £8.7bn spent on PPE last year had been written off – admitting to a “significant loss of value to the taxpayer”. The annual report stated: “The department estimates that there has been a loss in value of £8.7bn of the £12.1bn of PPE…

Vaccination for care home staff became mandatory from November 2021. A care sector boss has said the government must apologise to care home workers who lost their jobs, following its announcement that it plans to scrap the mandatory vaccine requirement for frontline health and care staff. Vic Rayner, chief executive of the National Care Forum (NCF), said care homes have been the “unwitting guinea pigs” of the policy and the impact on providers and staff “must not be swept under the carpet”. Mandatory vaccination for care home staff in England came into force last November. At the time of the deadline, figures…