Budget 2023 won’t fuel inflation, but misses the bigger economic picture: experts

Manatū Hauora – the Ministry of Health has agreed that the COVID-19 prevalence surveys should not advance in their proposed current format. Aotearoa New Zealand has passed the emergency stage of its COVID-19 response, with the virus endemic in our communities. The results of any COVID-19-focused prevalence survey would be unlikely to meaningfully alter any current public health response as there are only two pandemic-related mandates still in place (the 7-day isolation period and mask use for visitors to healthcare facilities).

Cancun, the crown jewel of Mexico’s tourism industry, have discovered eight dead bodies dumped close to each other in the city, less than a month after four people were found dead near a beachside resort in the hotel zone.Local outlet Riviera Maya News reported that the bodies of five adults were found inside a reservoir filled with water on an abandoned property, citing state prosecutor Óscar Montes de Oca.The bodies were likely dumped there between one week and two months ago, he said. Three of the five dead have been identified as people previously reported missing.As police were searching the surrounding neighbourhood of Alfredo V.

Kevin Smith is getting candid and honest in a new interview, where he openly discusses his decision to seek help.

A former girlfriend of actor Danny Masterson testified Tuesday that he had grown increasingly abusive and controlling during their five-year relationship when he raped her in their bed in November of 2001.The woman, a model who had begun dating Masterson in 1996, shortly before he gained fame as a star of the sitcom That ’70s Show, said there had been previous instances when she woke in the night to find Masterson on top of her, and had accepted sex with him to avoid angering him.On this night, however, she said she clearly did not consent, and resisted.“I told him, ‘No, I don’t want to have sex.’ He didn’t listen to me,” said the woman, the first to take the stand in the Los Angeles courtroom at Masterson’s retrial on three counts of rape.She spoke more quickly and grew more emotional as the story continued. “So, I continued pleading with him, like, ‘please get off of me, no.’ And he was continuing.

Three Colorado teens are facing murder charges after they allegedly hurled a landscaping rock through a windshield of a moving car, killing a young woman just outside of Denver.

health issues, including a 2010 brain hemorrhage and stroke — and why he’s grateful to be alive.“It’s been a crazy roller-coaster ride,” Michaels told People.“After all the adversity I’ve been through, I just feel grateful to be here. If I were to go today — and I hope I don’t — I would die with a full heart.”In addition to his recent health struggles, Michaels has also battled Type 1 diabetes since he was 6. “I was almost at ketoacidosis, which is when the organs shut down,” he told the outlet of his diagnosis many years ago.

lifelong struggle with his weight.“It was scary,” Smith, 52, told People. “At that moment, I wouldn’t have been averse to not being around any longer.

Joy is taking a break.

what it calls one of the largest strikes in Canadian history says the federal government is “stalling” on talks for a new collective agreement.Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) national president Chris Aylward made the claim Wednesday on Parliament Hill – which was the site of the “largest picket event of the strike” so far, the union said.The strike, which has gone on for eight days now, has seen more than 100,000 federal public servants across the country walk off the job while the union negotiates a new collective agreement with Ottawa for some 155,000 workers, including those deemed essential and who must continue working.Treasury Board President Mona Fortier said in a statement Wednesday that while Ottawa is determined to reach an agreement with the union, it needs PSAC “to start bringing their demands in line with the Public Interest Commission recommendations.”Earlier this year, that independent arbitrator recommended a nine per cent wage increase over three years. Ottawa has tabled that offer – with a signing bonus – but PSAC has been seeking a 13.5 per cent increase over three years.Aylward said PSAC has “moved off” its wage demands, but did not provide specifics.

Kevin Smith is opening up about seeking help following a “scary” incident where he was convinced he was losing his mind in a candid new interview.

Piers Morgan was forced to pull out of his show Uncensored on Talk TV. In a health update, the 58-year-old revealed he was a "gibbering wreck" after a bad case of food poisoning. The presenter explained he was left "puking" as he explained the reason why he "looked so queasy" while on air the night before.

Tom Sandoval is sick of the rumors flying around!

Canadian military personnel including special forces members are already on the ground in Sudan to assist with evacuation efforts as rival military leaders battle for control of the country, multiple sources tell Global News.

banned firearms as it continues to rework some controversial gun control amendments.Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino made the announcement Wednesday morning, in what Ottawa is touting as a “significant step” towards the launch of the Firearms Buyback Program.The Canadian Sporting Arms and Ammunition Association (CSAAA), which represents the hunting and sport shooting industry in Canada, will work in collaboration with Public Safety Canada and retailers.The first phase of the program set to begin later this year will focus on businesses with banned firearms in their possession, according to a government statement.The CSAAA will help identify the number and types of banned firearms that are held by businesses and try to “streamline” the buyback process, the statement said.The second phase, which will come later but with no clear timeline yet, will focus on individual gun owners and will not involve the CSAAA.The Liberal government banned some 1,500 models and variants of firearms, including the AR-15 and Ruger Mini-14, through an order-in-council in May 2020.The proposed buyback program would require owners to either sell these firearms to the government or have them rendered inoperable at federal expense.“The successful implementation of this program is no small feat, and we appreciate the expertise of the Canadian Sporting Arms and Ammunition Association,” said Mendicino in a statement.“This is the first step towards getting assault-style firearms out of our communities,” he added.In February, the federal government withdrew an amendment to the federal bill that would have spelled out in law the various models covered by a ban on assault-style guns.Automatic firearms are already prohibited in Canada.The Liberals

Tom Sandoval has blasted anyone suggesting Raquel Leviss isn’t actually in a mental health facility.

Carol Vorderman, 62, told her 332,000 Instagram followers that she has been forced to cancel her plans tomorrow due to poor health. The I'm A Celeb South Africa star explained she was feeling "sweaty and full of temperature" as she connected with her fans via Instagram live. The BBC Wales presenter asked fans to "excuse her" as she continued to cough throughout the video, admitting: "I'm not a well girl tonight".

New Delhi: India reported a sharp rise of over 9,629 covid cases in the last 24 hours, the union health ministry data showed on Wednesday. The daily positivity rate has reached 5.38%, while the weekly positivity rate stood at 5.61%. Active covid cases have reached 61,013.

COVID surge is hitting children hard and most of them are showing mild febrile illness symptoms.  With the uptick in the trend of Covid cases, scientists said that XBB.1.16 is the Covid-19 variant responsible for the present surge in Covid cases. However, scientists say that people in India have developed hybrid immunity (due to vaccination and natural infection).

Red Velvet member Joy will step back from all scheduled activities due to health concerns.Today (April 26), Joy’s label SM Entertainment announced in a statement that the K-pop idol would not be participating in any planned activities for the time being due to the “poor condition” of her health.“Joy recently visited a hospital due to her poor health condition, and after consultation and examination, the medical staff advised that she needs treatment and rest,” SM Entertainment said per Edaily, as translated by Soompi. However, the label did not give specific about Joy’s condition.“Joy will not participate in any schedules for the time being and will instead take a break to recover her health,” it added, adding that “this decision was made following thorough discussions with Joy, looking out for her health”.Red Velvet are currently on the Asia leg of their ‘R to V’ world tour, and are set to play the Pia Arena MM in Yokohama, Japan on May 3 next.

Edmonton Oilers game in Los Angeles last weekend, the fan bases in both cities turned it into an opportunity to raise money for sick children.Last week, Global News brought you the story of Cecily Eklund, a 10-year-old cancer survivor who has raised nearly $100,000 for children with cancer.The Ben Stelter fund gifted Cecily a trip to L.A. to cheer on the Edmonton Oilers in Game 3 of Round 1 of the playoffs.Mom Cathy Eklund said the trip was overall great but during the game, “L.A.

Hailey Bieber is sharing her thankfulness to her healthcare providers, one year after undergoing surgery shortly after suffering a mini-stroke.

TD Bank’s stock have been on the rise in recent weeks as aftershocks from banking turmoil in the United States continue to ripple north of the border.Market analysts who spoke to Global News say customers of one of Canada’s biggest banks have little cause for concern, and some investors could even find opportunity in the uncertainty surrounding TD.Reuters reported early in April that TD Bank had become the most shorted bank in the world as hedge funds bet billions of dollars that the institution’s share value would fall.

Ottawa is buzzing with public servants in numbers that haven’t been seen since before the pandemic.And it’s all thanks to workers fighting for the right not to have to be there.Tuesday marks six days since more than 150,000 public servants walked off the job as part of their contract negotiations with the federal government.One of the major sticking points is the union’s call for more flexibility to allow workers to do their jobs from home.In December Treasury Board President Mona Fortier directed office workers who had spent most of the pandemic working remotely to return to the office at least two days a week.After COVID-19 hit, the city’s downtown businesses have suffered without throngs of workers to frequent them.Downtown Ottawa city councillor Ariel Troster says she thinks public servants will never return the core full time and the city needs to rethink how it supports the businesses that once relied on the workers.

Shaun Ryder appeared to surprise his I'm A Celebrity... South Africa campmates when he shared the real reason for wearing sunglasses when night fell on their first night in camp.

The new Omicron sub-variant has begun to spread across the world.

Everybody Loves Raymond from 1996-2005 as well as films including Ice Age, The Big Sick and The Irishman, spoke about his health scare in a new interview on WTF with Marc Maron.Romano spoke about how he’d suffered for years with high cholesterol – something that led to a 90 per cent blockage in his main artery.He said: “I had high cholesterol 20 years ago and my guy always told me, ‘Why don’t we start going on the statin?’ Every time, I said, ‘Let me do it myself.'”Romano said he would go home and try to eat healthier to reverse the cholesterol himself, but admitted that it wasn’t successful – a pattern that lasted for 16 years.He said he “would go home and eat a little healthier and get it down a couple ticks”, but then his doctor would say: “It was 280 and now its 220 – you gotta get it down even more.”“But I’d go home and think I was hot shit – that was the cycle,” he continued.The actor said that he had to “have a stent put in” because he had “90 per cent blockage” in the artery deemed “the widow-maker”.“I got kind of lucky that we found it,” he continued, saying that he “would have gone on the meds” sooner had he realised how serious it was.Talking about getting older, he said: “Saying 50 was weird, but saying 60 sounds foreign, it sounds fake. In my head I don’t feel that old.

After seven decades of work, 91-year-old Betty Glover is finally able to retire.

₹44.78 crore was spent on 'addition/alternation' of Arvind Kejriwal's government accommodation The BJP on Tuesday claimed that around ₹45 crore was spent on the "beautification" of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's official residence in the Civil Lines area of the city and demanded his resignation on "moral" ground. No immediate reaction was available from the Delhi government or the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over the BJP claims. "It was not renovation and a new structure has come up in the place of the old structure.

On a Sunday morning in Taipei, a few dozen Taiwanese civilians carrying travel coffee mugs and notebooks settled into their seats in a classroom for a day-long crash course on surviving a Chinese military invasion.

Sharon Osbourne is providing fans with an update on her husband Ozzy Osbourne’s health after he announced he would be retiring from touring.  The former "The Talk" host revealed she had to take a break from her television duties to care for Ozzy after he experienced a string of health battles -- including Parkinson’s disease, a "life-altering" surgery and COVID-19. "Ozzy’s Achilles’ heel has always been his lungs, so to get something like COVID that affects your breathing and all of that, it was just torturous," Sharon said during an interview with The Sun. "It has been very difficult.

Holidaymakers who had their trip cancelled amid the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic will be able to rebook flights with British Airways until late next year.

strike by the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and amid government vows not to negotiate in public, is the federal government doing exactly that?In what was called “An open letter to public servants and Canadians,” Treasury Board president Mona Fortier on Monday outlined her negotiating team’s position about what she said were the remaining sticking points with PSAC.Fortier also encouraged workers to “get a full understanding of all the issues that remain to be resolved” from their PSAC representatives.“It’s important for Canadians and public servants to understand what the government is doing to end the stress and strain from the labour disruption,” she wrote.The direct appeal to public servants on Monday comes after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other ministers last week insisted the government would not negotiate its position in public and urged talks to continue.“We are not negotiating in public right now,” Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa on Wednesday when asked about the union’s demands. “The negotiations happen at the negotiating table.”Fortier’s letter said the government has reached agreements with PSAC on more than 560 demands from the union.

Booster jabs against Covid-19 are being made available at partnership centres across West Lothian as well as in local health centres.