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Abbotsford, British Columbia – Every second day, 28,000 litres of raw milk leave Casey Pruim’s farm in Abbotsford in western Canada, entering a distribution system built on the assumption that the milk and the products made from it will have somewhere to go.While most is consumed in Canada, some had been sold across the border to the United States.Those sales have largely come to a standstill since US President Donald Trump’s 50 percent tariff on $20bn in Canadian goods, including dairy products, came into effect on August 22.Pruim, who is also chair of the British Columbia Dairy Association representing about…

With spicy leather mini dresses and shoes with miniature axes for heels, two beloved British names made a swaggering joint comeback at London fashion week.Fifteen years ago, Christopher Kane and Mulberry were two of the biggest shows on the line-up. Kane was the brilliant young designer who could find fashion in the most unlikely places: rubberised lace minis were inspired by “Princess Margaret on acid”, while illustrations from the 1972 classic The Joy of Sex appeared on slinky slip dresses. Mulberry was London’s home-grown It-bag brand: anyone who was anyone had a Bayswater or an Alexa.The pandemic hit independent designers…

Embattled German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has vowed to stay on despite exit polls in two local elections suggesting damaging defeats for his centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. In the north-eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the party was projected to only just scrape into parliament, while the AfD was on track to win the most votes. Merz called the result “a disaster” for his party.In Berlin, the ruling CDU was also expected to be beaten by Die Linke (The Left).Merz is under mounting pressure, with poor approval ratings and rumours he could even be replaced mid-term in a so-called chancellor swap.Votes…

New legislation signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom adds teeth to disclosure requirements for online influencers who are paid to post about politics. The New York Times reports that California already required disclosure for influencers who post about state or local races — but when someone failed to disclose, there were no fines or criminal penalties. (Texas also requires disclosure for paid political content, and other states are considering similar regulations.) Under the new bill, AB 1130, regulators can fine influencers up to $5,000 for each violation, and they can also refer them to law enforcement for potential misdemeanors.  According…

The Liberal Democrats have used their conference to unveil a £2bn plan to cut fuel duty, part of a series of policy proposals intended to tackle worries that not enough voters know what Ed Davey’s party stands for.The proposal to cut fuel duty by 10p a litre for a fixed three-month period came as polling showed Lib Dem policies are less well known than those of Restore Britain, which only launched as a political party in February and has one MP – Rupert Lowe – to their 71.Davey will set out the fuel duty idea, along with a reduction in…

Paskett, though, thinks there could be an effective additional way to control grey squirrel numbers within the next five years.He said the Red Squirrel Survival Trust was jointly funding a field trial by the government’s Animal and Plant Health Agency.Beginning “later this year or early next year” Paskett said his organisation had “developed the means to deliver oral contraceptives to grey squirrels using a ‘hopper’ which sees the squirrel lift up a lid” to access them.Because greys typically weigh 500g – approximately twice that of reds, only they can access the contraceptive.If the field trial is successful, Paskett hopes landowners…

You’ve read the email carefully and it looks legitimate. The link it asks you to click on has none of the usual red flags: there are no weird numbers or extra parts to the URL. You feel safe to proceed.But if you had looked slightly closer you may have noticed something slightly wrong with one of the characters. Just as in the headline of this piece where instead of “a” we used the Cyrillic “α”.Fraudsters can use letters from different alphabets to create URLs and email addresses that look almost identical to the real thing, but in reality send anyone…

Accord Party chieftain, Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, has drawn a distinction between his political ideology and those of Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar ahead of the 2027 presidential election. Olawepo-Hashim made the remarks during an interview on Mic On Podcast while discussing the ideological positions of presidential candidates in the opposition ahead of the election. According to him, Obi and Atiku belong to the “extreme conservative political wing”, while he, African Action Congress presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore and Social Democratic Party candidate Adewole Adebayo share a left-centre orientation. “Peter is very clear. He doesn’t have any problem with high petrol price. The…

Much of the rubbish includes everyday waste, such as plastic packaging, bottles, cans, polystyrene and takeaway rubbish. But over the years, volunteers have fished out some unusual items, such as a Nespresso capsules, alcohol bottles, plastic cones, clothing – including thermals still in their packaging – and even a packet of butcher’s tripe mix.One particularly unusual find was a Marathon-branded chocolate wrapper – the UK name for Snickers until 1990 – found during a clean-up several years ago. Reflecting on the anniversary, Juyon said: “There were just five of us at that first clean-up in 2016.”I stepped away from running…

In the Bible, men are likened to trees. Our church, Healing Wings, started in 1994. Soon, God told me He was giving us a building. When He showed it to me, I did not like it at first. It was old and dilapidated. It had been uninhabited for five years, so the front of the building was overgrown. But God told me to go and take a second look. He said, “Femi, go back there and look at the trees.” When I did with some colleagues, we all agreed that 12 Festival Road, Victoria Island, Lagos, was our Promised Land.…