PSAC says it’s made ‘some progress’ on wage demands after feds table ‘final’ offer

financial planner or advisor to guide decisions on everything from investments to getting out of debt.But as complicated as planning your own finances can be, experts say it’s no simple task getting the right help, either.“There’s still a lot of ambiguity, I find, with financial advisors in Canada to figure out what the heck they do,” says Jason Heath, managing director of Objective Financial Partners.Heath, who is a certified financial planner (CFP), and other experts also say relying on outside advice might not be right for every household budget when the costs of financial planning itself are factored in.Here’s how to decide if a financial planner is right for you, and how to navigate the market to find the right fit.There are many different types of financial guidance you can get, ranging from straightforward advice to hands-on management of your investments.But the first distinction to be made is the difference between a financial advisor and a financial planner.The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) differentiates the more general financial advisors, which could encompass anything from a bank employee to a stock broker to an insurance agent, from the more specific financial planner, which is a type of advisor who helps you make a plan for your long-term savings goals.

Gemma Owen has been flooded with praise and support as she revealed her next move in honour of her brother. The Love Island star has shared that she has become an ambassador for a charity which funds research into the prevention and treatment of blindness and eye disease.

NEW YORK - Timothy Keller, a pastor and best-selling author who founded the influential Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, died Friday morning at home after three-year bout with pancreatic cancer. He was 72.His family announced that he had been in hospice care, and that he died with his wife of 48 years, Kathy, by his side.Keller and his family launched Redeemer in 1989, and the congregation went on to welcome more than 5,000 attendees across its multiple locations each week.A new evangelical church in Manhattan filled with young adults was unique in a city known more for its secularism and the Gothic spires of its older sanctuaries.

PHILADELPHIA - Two people are dead after police say a man fatally shot a woman, then turned the gun on himself overnight in Philadelphia's Olney neighborhood.Officers arrived to find two people shot dead inside a home on the 100 block of East Roosevelt Boulevard around midnight.Both the 27-year-old man and 29-year-old woman were pronounced dead at the scene.Police say the murder-suicide likely stemmed from a domestic dispute as neighbors say they heard arguing from the house throughout most of the day.MORE HEADLINES:Two young boys, ages 4 and 6, were also found at the scene, but it is unclear if they witnessed the shooting. They were transported to St.

PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia judge dismissed all charges against a former police officer accused of assaulting a woman who accidentally drove a sport utility vehicle into a 2020 protest — but prosecutors quickly refiled the case.The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the judge's action Friday came after a police officer who was a witness failed to appear Friday for the aggravated assault trial of 42-year-old Darren Kardos. The woman wasn't in court either, but prosecutors said they had video evidence to put the case on without her testimony.The municipal court judge agreed to a defense request to dismiss the case while acknowledging that prosecutors were likely to refile the charges — something Assistant District Attorney Lyandra Retacco said was done later in the day.

MIAMI - Miami police are looking for this woman who they say drugged a man in Miami, then raided his safe of expensive baubles – including a Rolex watch worth half a million.The brunette vixen chatted up the 35-year-old victim May 8 at the trendy Wynwood neighborhood bar The Dirty Rabbit. They headed back to his apartment at the luxury condo tower Paramount Miami Worldcenter at about 5:30 a.m., a police report says."They fell asleep, and when he woke up at about 12 p.m., he noticed the safe in his bedroom was open," according to the report obtained by Fox News Digital.FLORIDA ONLYFANS MODEL COURTNEY CLENNEY SUED BY FAMILY OF SLAIN BOYFRIENDMiami police say this woman drugged and stole $600,000 from a man she met at The Dirty Rabbit in Wynwood. (Miami Police) The woman had made off with a $456,000 Daytona Rainbow Rolex, a $46,000 Sky-Dweller Rolex, $93,000 in gold jewelry, and a $12,500 pair of Cartier sunglasses, according to the Miami Police Department.Authorities said the man had one drink with the woman at his apartment before passing out. As soon as he saw that his valuables were missing, he called 911.Miami police say this woman drugged and stole $600,000 from a man she met at The Dirty Rabbit in Wynwood.

LINCOLN, Neb. - The Nebraska Legislature on Friday approved a 12-week abortion ban and restrictions on gender-affirming care for people younger than 19 in a move so contentious that lawmakers on both sides have said they may be unable to work together in the future.Conservative lawmakers called in a visibly ill colleague so they would have enough votes to end a filibuster and pass a bill with both measures. Republican Gov. Jim Pillen, who pushed for the bill, has promised to sign it into law.The mood in the Nebraska Capitol has been volatile since lawmakers on Tuesday advanced by a single vote the hybrid measure that ties together restrictions that Republicans have pursued across the U.S.

sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury on Friday along with his Canadian-registered business and his Hong Kong firms.The 41-year-old’s company Asia Pacific Links Ltd.

New Delhi: The union health ministry on Saturday said that it has commenced cashless treatment facility for all Central Government Health Scheme or CGHS beneficiaries, serving and pensioners, at six All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). “Patient care facilities available at 6 fully functional AIIMS at Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Patna, Jodhpur, Raipur and Rishikesh shall be extended to the CGHS beneficiaries on cashless basis. It will be particularly beneficial for the senior citizens (retired pensioner beneficiaries of CGHS) who find it difficult to submit individual reimbursement claims and follow up approvals.

India reported a daily increase of 782 covid-19 cases, marking a decline in the nation's active cases to 8,675, as per the health ministry data on Saturday. With a daily positivity rate of 0.61% and a weekly positivity rate of 0.77%, this marks a continuation of the downtrend seen in recent weeks. In the past three years, the nation has witnessed over 44.9 million cases and recorded 531,824 deaths due to the virus.

Lewis Capaldi has said that he’d be willing to step away from music to protect his mental health if he had to.The artist admitted that fame has proved a detriment to his mental health, and if necessary, he wouldn’t rule out walking away to look after himself.Speaking to Rebecca Judd on Apple Music, he said: “I think on this album in particular I talk a bit more about my mental health, which has taken a beating over the last little while.“I’m managing it better now but I think in 2020 I was kind of glad when we got put in lockdown because I had done my first arena tour in the UK, and we had just done an Australia and Asia tour before that.“I was in a bad way where I was just having panic attacks every single day on stage and I was just shy,” he continued. “I still haven’t quite got there, but it’s interesting that this thing that you love to do and you’ve always wanted to do becomes something that causes you such distress, but such is the modern world.“”If I did another album and my head was scrambled and I felt horrible, right now I’m at a point where I can balance my mental health and how I feel in general.

New York City‘s skyscraper skyline is iconic, but it may be causing the Big Apple to sink, a new study suggests.According to research published by the scientific journal Earth’s Future, the cumulative 1.68 trillion-pound weight of New York City’s buildings is causing the city to sink about one to two millimetres per year on average.The “subsidence rate” — the scientific term for the speed of sinking — was observed by three University of Rhode Island oceanologists and a researcher from the U.S. Geological Survey.

A passenger on board a Royal Caribbean cruise ship is missing after they went overboard Tuesday evening during a trip from Brisbane, Australia to Honolulu, Hawaii.

Sudan, National Defence Minister Anita Anand says.Anand did not share details other than saying the evacuation flight occurred on an RCAF C-130 Hercules aircraft. She promised further details will come in an announcement Thursday morning in Enfield, N.S.“We’re operating almost in real time, and we want to make sure that we have all the details in place,” she said.“We needed to make sure that conditions are safe and secure on the ground, and that we had space on the airfield – that’s actively occurring right now and will continue to occur, making sure that we have the conditions that are in place for not only the flight that I have mentioned, but additional evacuations that we are planning over the next number of days.”About 200 members of the Canadian Armed Forces have deployed to the region along with military planes and ships for evacuation operations.Hundreds of people have been killed in nearly two weeks of conflict between the army and a rival paramilitary force, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which are locked in a power struggle threatening to destabilize the wider region.A shaky 72-hour ceasefire has allowed nations to evacuate their citizens, but it’s set to expire Thursday night.

Lea Michele gave fans an update on how her 2-year-old son Ever is doing after he suffered a “scary health issue” in March.

As the federal public service strike is into its second week, a new poll has found that Canadians are divided between the union and the federal government.

Content warning: This story contains discussion and description of sexual assault.Kevin Smith has revealed that he spent a month in a mental health treatment facility after having “a complete break from reality” last year. The events were caused by unresolved issues concerning childhood trauma.In a new interview with People, the Clerks and Chasing Amy director spoke for the first time about his experiences of being sexually abused and guilted for his weight as a child.

The health ministry has directed states and union territories to follow a risk assessment-based approach to prevent and contain the infection. New Delhi India reported 9,355 covid cases and 26 deaths in the last 24 hours, the union health ministry data said on Thursday. While the daily positivity rate has reached 4.08%, the weekly positivity rate touched 5.36%.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Children who breathe through their mouth, snore, fiddle with their ears and have worse hearing during a cold are more likely to be autistic, according to a new study.

Nicole Murphy has joined the chorus of celebrity voices sending their love and support as Jamie Foxx continues to recover from his recent health scare.«I just pray everything will be okay,» the 55-year-old told on Saturday, explaining that she hasn't spoken to Foxx since he was hospitalized with a «medical complication» nearly two weeks ago. «We love Jamie.

One of Canada’s largest labour disruptions has entered a sixth day as the union representing thousands of striking public-service workers looks to hamper access to ports.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recently published new proposals to help more disabled people and those with health conditions to start, stay and succeed in work. The Health and Disability White Paper was published in March and sets out ways the UK Government plans to transform the entire Personal Independence Payment (PIP) service.

According to epidemiologists, covid cases have been doubling every four to five days. Scientists have said that the XBB.1.16 variant of coronavirus is responsible for the current surge. New Delhi: India reported 7,178 covid cases and 16 deaths in the last 24 hours, the union health ministry data said on Monday.

‌Eamonn Holmes has admitted that he is "desperate for results" following his recovery from a serious fall.The television presenter has previously detailed the extent of his health struggles, revealing he had been suffering from disc problems in his back for a year and a half caused by a dislocated pelvis in 2021. Eamonn then decided to undergo a back surgery in September 2022 in the hopes of improving things. However, it unfortunately led to more health problems down the line - as it led to him experiencing a nasty fall down a spiral staircase that left him with a broken shoulder due to the surgery affecting the health of one of his legs.