• The Joke’s On Us It’s April Fool’s Day!

    Get your joke book out and plan your pratfalls and pranks because April 1st, better known as April Fool’s Day, is the time once a year to celebrate by playing good-spirited tricks on friends and family. Funny enough, despite its worldwide popularity, this holiday has a long history but mysterious origins. One of the earliest possible explanations goes all the way back to 1508 when French Poet Eloy d’Amerval referred to a “poisson d’avril,” or “April Fool.” Although, translated, this […]

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    Housing minister mocks Doug Ford’s concerns with fourplexes. Here’s what happened at Ontario’s Queen’s Park this week

    Canada’s housing minister openly mocked Ontario Premier Doug Ford on social media Friday over his concerns over fourplexes. Throughout the week, the premier has made it clear that he does not support a provincial mandate to build fourplexes in residential neighbourhoods—something that both the Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force and the federal government have recommended. Later, he clarified he was just against four-storey “towers.” “You have to differentiate between putting four...

  • Derry’s St Mary’s is Ireland’s Choir of the Year!

    The choir celebrated on stage of the magnificent RDs Concert Hall singing a triumphant rendition of ‘The Undertones’ standard, Teenage Kicks. The choir, under the direction of Emma-Jayne Kelly and accompanied by Trevor Burnside won the two- part Youth choir, were placed second in The Alice Yoakley Cup and won the overall Folen’s Publisher Award Cup and £3000 for the "School Choir of the Year 2024". Miss Kelly described the whole experience as “a fantastic day for Derry as Thornhill College also...

  • Ollie Watkins told he’s playing his way out of being Harry Kane’s England back-up and it’s Ivan Toney’s time to shine

    Ollie Watkins’ chances of booking a plane ticket for Euro 2024 could be ended on Tuesday night. That’s according to Arsenal great Perry Groves, who expects Ivan Toney to play and shine agains

  • Today’s top business headlines: Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentencing, Apple’s $490 million settlement, and a conversation with Delta’s CEO

    A new chapter in the Sam Bankman-Fried saga: On Friday, federal prosecutors asked a New York judge to sentence the founder and former head of cryptocurrency exchange FTX to between 40 and 50 years in prison. They cited claims that Bankman-Fried participated in a “historic fraud” and cost customers and investors at least $10 billion as the rationale behind the hefty jail time. Bankman-Fried’s lawyers have argued that five or six years behind bars would be appropriate, maintaining that he’s not an...

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    Beyoncé drops ‘Cowboy Carter’ and hold on to your horses, because it’s a lot

    They say you can take the girl out of the country, but you apparently can’t take the country out of the girl. Houston native Beyoncé dropped her eagerly awaited album “Act II: Cowboy Carter” Thursday night, and it will definitely take some time to digest. She released the tracklist Wednesday which had 27 items on it. Some of those are interludes as opposed to full tracks. And while she previously declared “This ain’t a Country album. This is a ‘Beyoncé’ album,” the new music is being embraced as...

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    Beyoncé drops ‘Cowboy Carter’ and hold on to your horses, because it’s a lot

    By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — They say you can take the girl out of the country, but you apparently can’t take the country out of the girl. Houston native Beyoncé dropped her eagerly awaited album “Act II: Cowboy Carter” Thursday night, and it will definitely take some time to digest. Part of the

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    Beyoncé drops ‘Cowboy Carter’ and hold on to your horses, because it’s a lot

    By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — They say you can take the girl out of the country, but you apparently can’t take the country out of the girl. Houston native Beyoncé dropped her eagerly awaited album “Act II: Cowboy Carter” Thursday night, and it will definitely take some time to digest. She released the

  • Jersey Mike’s Subs to hold annual Day of Giving

    March 27 event will raise funds for Where Angels Play.

  • This city holds the title of ‘the UK’S Lifetime ISA hotspot'

    Customer house purchase withdrawal data from Lifetime ISA (LISA) provider Moneybox revealed more bought their first home in the south west city last year with the help of the savings scheme than anywhere else in the country - for the fourth year in a row. LISA-enabled home buyers in Bristol paid an average of £302,939 for their property, which is down 1.75 per cent year-on-year. They had each saved an average of £14,372 in their LISA to put towards their deposit, a 14 per cent increase compared...

  • This city holds the title of ‘the UK’S Lifetime ISA hotspot'

    Customer house purchase withdrawal data from Lifetime ISA (LISA) provider Moneybox revealed more bought their first home in the south west city last year with the help of the savings scheme than anywhere else in the country - for the fourth year in a row. LISA-enabled home buyers in Bristol paid an average of £302,939 for their property, which is down 1.75 per cent year-on-year. They had each saved an average of £14,372 in their LISA to put towards their deposit, a 14 per cent increase compared...

  • This city holds the title of ‘the UK’S Lifetime ISA hotspot'

    Customer house purchase withdrawal data from Lifetime ISA (LISA) provider Moneybox revealed more bought their first home in the south west city last year with the help of the savings scheme than anywhere else in the country - for the fourth year in a row. LISA-enabled home buyers in Bristol paid an average of £302,939 for their property, which is down 1.75 per cent year-on-year. They had each saved an average of £14,372 in their LISA to put towards their deposit, a 14 per cent increase compared...