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The Ipsos poll shows that support for the BC Conservatives is at 42 per cent, up seven, while the BC NDP support is at 40 per cent, which is down five.

England’s identity under Steve Borthwick is not as clear as it should be this close to the tournament

It was not so long ago that the Rugby Football Union would host an annual Christmas bash. Executives, head coaches, assistants, members of staff and an invitation to the press pack. Mince pies and mulled wine, even a touch of merriment if we were lucky. Eddie Jones would sometimes make an appearance, but the mind goes back to one year when he did not.

To give him his due Steve Borthwick, his assistant at the time, did. He would probably rather have been anywhere else, but one of the more clear-eyed RFU employees, who had long-since figured out that the then forwards coach was destined for the top job, did their utmost to involve him. Alas, Borthwick soon had a long-distance train to catch and hours of in-depth analysis on a laptop ahead of him.

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Carney declared the pipeline a project of national interest, smoothening its way to a single federal regulatory review.

1. Newfoundland Featured on Times Square Billboard Promoting Netflix Series ‘Below’  VOCM
2. Latest N.L. tourism ad boasts Josh Hartnett, but are real fishermen the true catch?  CBC
3. Josh Hartnett embraces his Newfoundland era with a Times Square billboard and an accent lesson on 'The Tonight Show'  PNI Atlantic News
4. Josh Hartnett poses with Newfoundland tourism billboard in Times Square ahead of new Netflix thriller's premiere: 'All our fishermen look like this'  Yahoo News Canada
5. Advertisement for Newfoundland-based Netflix series ‘BELOW’ takes over the big screen in New York City’s Times Square  ntv.ca

1. Newfoundland Featured on Times Square Billboard Promoting Netflix Series ‘Below’  VOCM
2. Latest N.L. tourism ad boasts Josh Hartnett, but are real fishermen the true catch?  CBC
3. Josh Hartnett embraces his Newfoundland era with a Times Square billboard and an accent lesson on 'The Tonight Show'  PNI Atlantic News
4. Josh Hartnett poses with Newfoundland tourism billboard in Times Square ahead of new Netflix thriller's premiere: 'All our fishermen look like this'  Yahoo News Canada
5. Advertisement for Newfoundland-based Netflix series ‘BELOW’ takes over the big screen in New York City’s Times Square  ntv.ca

Wall Street is looking for job growth of 84,000 to close out the summer.

With Eric Lombardi throwing his support behind Lee Fairclough, the former federal cabinet minister is leaning on his economic credentials and grassroots organizing efforts as the party prepares to choose its next leader.

PM has praised Abu Dhabi group as ‘huge partner’ in reshaping Manchester, but critics say this ignores public cost of city’s transformation

In July 2016, the Manchester City player Yaya Touré ambled into a small bar near Beijing’s Workers’ Stadium and offered a bemused smile as dozens of Chinese fans rushed towards him.

Manchester City had just won their sixth trophy under the big-spending ownership of Sheikh Mansour’s Abu Dhabi United Group and the blues were international megastars. They were also magnets for investment.

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Zander Horvath has Hall of Famers Mike Pringle and Milt Stegall in his sights.

1. New York’s governor removes DA in Cornell rape allegations, appoints AG Letitia James to take over  CTV News
2. Cornell: What we know about what Jane Doe told officials and the Snapchat messages  CNN
3. New York's governor removes district attorney from Cornell rape allegations case, appoints special prosecutor  CBC
4. Is College Getting Less Safe for Women?  theatlantic.com
5. Jane Doe in Cornell University case told campus police, "I can say with 100% confidence I was raped," transcript shows  CBS News

1. Texts show how Cornell accuser became convinced she had been raped, report says  CTV News
2. Text exchanges show how Cornell accuser became convinced she was raped, report says  The Globe and Mail
3. The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan  The Guardian
4. District Attorney’s investigation of 2024 sexual assault allegations  Cornell University statements
5. Opinion | Anger and Questions at Cornell  The New York Times

Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment

Ministers are working up sweeping plans for welfare changes including scrapping a key disability benefit for under-25s and replacing it with a multibillion-pound package of support to get into work, the Guardian has learned.

Whitehall sources said the package of changes under debate was much bigger than previously thought, as Andy Burnham’s government hopes to persuade more people on benefits back into work.

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Nige is not rattled that the UK likes its new PM. Or that Reform is second in the polls. Oh no. Because Nige believes in Nige

Nearly 10 years ago, Nigel Farage told LBC he would leave the country if Brexit were not a stunning success. For reasons that no one can quite fathom, he is still here. Could it be that he is a man who can’t be trusted to keep his word? Surely not.

Nige wants you to know he’s very much still around. He might have been a bit quiet over the past few weeks, as Reform had to deal with one or two unfortunate investigations into their funding, but now he’s very much back. And he’s definitely not rattled that Labour has a prime minister the country likes. Nor is he at all rattled that Reform has tumbled into second place in the polls. Oh, no. Because Nige believes in Nige. Now more than ever. The last creepy-crawly after the apocalypse. Lying on its back, gasping for air. But still breathing. The dream still alive.

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The former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach took 12 years to build a city filled with stadiums, skyscrapers and bespoke homes. It is a marvel

We may finally have cracked the case as to why the Pittsburgh Steelers stagnated so much over the final years of Mike Tomlin’s tenure as head coach: he was focused on virtual urban planning.

I’m kidding, of course. It’s good when people in high-pressure jobs have creative hobbies. Count this writer (and his interior designer wife) among those who were gobsmacked on Wednesday night by Tomlin’s reveal of a 12-year-long project in Minecraft, the world-building game. Tomlin had teased that during his coaching career, he took up Minecraft city-building as a way to connect with his young children. We have now seen the fruits of that labor, and they are magnificent. Look my my works, Terry Bradshaw, and despair.

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Pinto, whose leaks of private documents prompted the investigation into Manchester City, is understood to fear for his safety

More than a decade after Rui Pinto set up the Football Leaks website in a crusade triggered by the Fifa scandal in 2015, he finds himself in the middle of a growing storm. The former history student with trademark spiky hair who used to make extra cash selling books about the second world war has not held back with his statements on social media since Manchester City’s guilty verdict from an independent Premier League commission.

The first targets for Pinto, whose leaks of private documents prompted first Uefa then the Premier League to investigate City’s financial affairs, were what he alleged were the club’s “cheating” executives for demonstrating “a complete lack of respect for the rules”. On Wednesday he turned his attention to the Fifa president, Gianni Infantino.

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