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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Tens of thousands of Spaniards marched in downtown Barcelona on Saturday to protest the skyrocketing cost of renting an apartment in the popular tourist destination. Protesters cut off traffic on main avenues in the city center, holding up homemade signs in Spanish reading “Fewer apartments for investing and more homes for living" and “The people without homes uphold their rights.” The lack of affordable housing has become one of the leading concerns for the southern European Union country, mirroring the housing crunch across many parts of the world, including the United States . Organizers said that over 100,000 had turned out, while Barcelona’s police said they estimated some 22,000 marched. Either way, the throngs of people clogging the streets recalled the massive separatist rallies at the height of the previous decade’s Catalan independence movement. Now, social concerns led by housing have displaced political crusades. That is because the average rent for Spain has doubled in last 10 years. The price per square meter has risen from 7.2 euros ($7.5) in 2014 to 13 euros this year, according to the popular online real estate website Idealista. The growth is even more acute in cities like Barcelona and Madrid. Incomes meanwhile have failed to keep up, especially for younger people in a country with chronically high unemployment. Protestor Samuel Saintot said he is “frustrated and scared” after being told by the owners of the apartment he has rented for the past 15 years in Barcelona’s city center that he must vacate the premises. He suspects that the owners want him out so they can renovate it and boost the price. “Even looking in a 20- or 30-kilometer radius outside town, I can’t even find anything within the price range I can afford,” he told The Associated Press. “And I consider myself a very fortunate person, because I earn a decent salary. And even in my case, I may be forced to leave town.” A report by the Bank of Spain indicates that nearly 40% of Spaniards who rent dedicate an average of 40% of their income to paying rents and utilities, compared to the European Union average of 27% of renters who do so. “We are talking about a housing emergency. It means people having many difficulties both in accessing and staying in their homes,” said Ignasi Martí, professor for Esade business school and head of its Dignified Housing Observatory. The rise in rents is causing significant pain in Spain, where traditionally people seek to own their homes. Rental prices have also been driven up by short-term renters including tourists. Many migrants to Spain are also disproportionately hit by the high rents because they often do not have enough savings. Spain is near the bottom end of OECD countries with under 2% of all housing available being public housing for rent. The OECD average is 7%. Spain is far behind France, with 14%, Britain with 16%, and the Netherlands with 34%. Carme Arcarazo, spokesperson for Barcelona’s Tenants Union which helped organize the protest, said that renters should consider a “rent strike” and cease paying their monthly rents in a mass protest movement. “I think we the tenants have understood that this depends on us. That we can’t keep asking and making demands to the authorities and waiting for an answer. We must take the reins of the situation,” Arcarazo told the AP. “So, if they (the owners) won’t lower the rent, then we will force them to do it." The Barcelona protest came a month after tens of thousands rallied against high rents in Madrid. The rising discontent over housing is putting pressure on Spain’s governing Socialist party, which leads a coalition on the national level and is in charge of Catalonia’s regional government and Barcelona’s city hall. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez presided over what the government termed a “housing summit” including government officials and real estate developers last month. But the Barcelona’s Tenants Union boycotted the event, saying it was like calling a summit for curing cancer and inviting tobacco companies to participate. The leading government measure has been a rent cap mechanism that the central government has offered to regional authorities based on a price index established by the housing ministry. Rent controls can be applied to areas deemed to be “highly stressed” by high rental prices. Catalonia was the first region to apply those caps, which are in place in downtown Barcelona. Many locals blame the million of tourists who visit Barcelona, and the rest of Spain, each year for the high prices. Barcelona’s town hall has pledged to completely eliminate the city’s 10,000 so called “tourist apartments,” or dwellings with permits for short-term rents, by 2028.Ottawa mayor speaks on transit funding, federal turmoil in year-end interviewPhiladelphia council members in closed-door negotiations with Sixers over proposed arena, 76 PlaceNone
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NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Angel Yin was making putts from across the green and threatening to build a big lead until Jeeno Thitikul finished eagle-birdie for a 9-under 63 to share the lead Saturday going into the final round of the CME Group Tour Championship with $4 million on the line. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Angel Yin was making putts from across the green and threatening to build a big lead until Jeeno Thitikul finished eagle-birdie for a 9-under 63 to share the lead Saturday going into the final round of the CME Group Tour Championship with $4 million on the line. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Angel Yin was making putts from across the green and threatening to build a big lead until Jeeno Thitikul finished eagle-birdie for a 9-under 63 to share the lead Saturday going into the final round of the CME Group Tour Championship with $4 million on the line. Yin had a 69 after another day of big putts and one chip-in from some 60 feet for eagle on the par-5 sixth hole that put her comfortably ahead at Tiburon Golf Club. She holed a 30-footer on the eighth hole, another birdie from about 25 feet on the ninth hole and another one from the 30-foot range on the 12th. Thitikul seemed to be an afterthought until she lit it up on the back nine for a 30. The Thai started the back nine with three straight bogeys, but she made up quick ground at the end with her eagle on the reachable par-5 17th and a birdie on the closing hole. The birdie briefly gave her the lead until Yin made birdie on the 17th to join her. They were tied at 15-under 201, three shots head of Ruoning Yin, who birdied her last two for a 66. Charley Hull had seven birdies in her round of 66 and was at 11-under 205, along with Narin An of South Korea. Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., was tied for 16th at 7 under after a round of 69. Nelly Korda, who got back into the mix on Friday after a sluggish start, lost ground with a 69 on a pleasant day that left her six shots back going into the final round. Korda has won four of her seven LPGA titles this year coming from behind. This could be a tall order. At stake is the richest payoff in women’s golf, $4 million to the winner, nearly as much as Korda has made all year in her seven-victory season. Thitikul already picked up a $1 million bonus this week through the Aon Risk-Reward Challenge, a competition based on how players score on a designated hole each week. Now she could leave Florida with a total of $5 million. “Actually, $1 million is really good enough for me,” Thitikul said. “If I can get more, it’s definitely going to be a nice, because as my team know I spend a lot of money. That’s why I have to keep playing good golf, like spending on shopping day.” Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. Angel Yin heard plenty of cheers for her long birdie putts, and the chip-in for eagle. She also was helped by a couple of pars after bad drives. She went well to the left at No. 10, did well to blast out on a blind shot just short of the green and then got up-and-down with a pitch to 4 feet. And then on the 13th, another tee shot went well to the left. She tried to get it back in play from just in front of some bushes, and from 50 yards hit wedge to about 15 feet. She holed that putt, too, that kept her in front. “I’m scoring still,” Yin said. “Making some mistakes, but saving a bunch, so a lot of positives.” ___ AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf Advertisement AdvertisementWASHINGTON (AP) — As a former and potentially future president, Donald Trump hailed what would become Project 2025 as a road map for “exactly what our movement will do” with another crack at the White House. As the blueprint for a hard-right turn in America became a liability during the 2024 campaign, Trump pulled an about-face . He denied knowing anything about the “ridiculous and abysmal” plans written in part by his first-term aides and allies. Now, after being elected the 47th president on Nov. 5, Trump is stocking his second administration with key players in the detailed effort he temporarily shunned. Most notably, Trump has tapped Russell Vought for an encore as director of the Office of Management and Budget; Tom Homan, his former immigration chief, as “border czar;” and immigration hardliner Stephen Miller as deputy chief of policy . Those moves have accelerated criticisms from Democrats who warn that Trump's election hands government reins to movement conservatives who spent years envisioning how to concentrate power in the West Wing and impose a starkly rightward shift across the U.S. government and society. Trump and his aides maintain that he won a mandate to overhaul Washington. But they maintain the specifics are his alone. “President Trump never had anything to do with Project 2025,” said Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt in a statement. “All of President Trumps' Cabinet nominees and appointments are whole-heartedly committed to President Trump's agenda, not the agenda of outside groups.” Here is a look at what some of Trump's choices portend for his second presidency. The Office of Management and Budget director, a role Vought held under Trump previously and requires Senate confirmation, prepares a president's proposed budget and is generally responsible for implementing the administration's agenda across agencies. The job is influential but Vought made clear as author of a Project 2025 chapter on presidential authority that he wants the post to wield more direct power. “The Director must view his job as the best, most comprehensive approximation of the President’s mind,” Vought wrote. The OMB, he wrote, “is a President’s air-traffic control system” and should be “involved in all aspects of the White House policy process,” becoming “powerful enough to override implementing agencies’ bureaucracies.” Trump did not go into such details when naming Vought but implicitly endorsed aggressive action. Vought, the president-elect said, “knows exactly how to dismantle the Deep State” — Trump’s catch-all for federal bureaucracy — and would help “restore fiscal sanity.” In June, speaking on former Trump aide Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, Vought relished the potential tension: “We’re not going to save our country without a little confrontation.” The strategy of further concentrating federal authority in the presidency permeates Project 2025's and Trump's campaign proposals. Vought's vision is especially striking when paired with Trump's proposals to dramatically expand the president's control over federal workers and government purse strings — ideas intertwined with the president-elect tapping mega-billionaire Elon Musk and venture capitalist Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a “Department of Government Efficiency.” Trump in his first term sought to remake the federal civil service by reclassifying tens of thousands of federal civil service workers — who have job protection through changes in administration — as political appointees, making them easier to fire and replace with loyalists. Currently, only about 4,000 of the federal government's roughly 2 million workers are political appointees. President Joe Biden rescinded Trump's changes. Trump can now reinstate them. Meanwhile, Musk's and Ramaswamy's sweeping “efficiency” mandates from Trump could turn on an old, defunct constitutional theory that the president — not Congress — is the real gatekeeper of federal spending. In his “Agenda 47,” Trump endorsed so-called “impoundment,” which holds that when lawmakers pass appropriations bills, they simply set a spending ceiling, but not a floor. The president, the theory holds, can simply decide not to spend money on anything he deems unnecessary. Vought did not venture into impoundment in his Project 2025 chapter. But, he wrote, “The President should use every possible tool to propose and impose fiscal discipline on the federal government. Anything short of that would constitute abject failure.” Trump's choice immediately sparked backlash. “Russ Vought is a far-right ideologue who has tried to break the law to give President Trump unilateral authority he does not possess to override the spending decisions of Congress (and) who has and will again fight to give Trump the ability to summarily fire tens of thousands of civil servants,” said Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, a Democrat and outgoing Senate Appropriations chairwoman. Reps. Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico, leading Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, said Vought wants to “dismantle the expert federal workforce” to the detriment of Americans who depend on everything from veterans' health care to Social Security benefits. “Pain itself is the agenda,” they said. Trump’s protests about Project 2025 always glossed over overlaps in the two agendas . Both want to reimpose Trump-era immigration limits. Project 2025 includes a litany of detailed proposals for various U.S. immigration statutes, executive branch rules and agreements with other countries — reducing the number of refugees, work visa recipients and asylum seekers, for example. Miller is one of Trump's longest-serving advisers and architect of his immigration ideas, including his promise of the largest deportation force in U.S. history. As deputy policy chief, which is not subject to Senate confirmation, Miller would remain in Trump's West Wing inner circle. “America is for Americans and Americans only,” Miller said at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Oct. 27. “America First Legal,” Miller’s organization founded as an ideological counter to the American Civil Liberties Union, was listed as an advisory group to Project 2025 until Miller asked that the name be removed because of negative attention. Homan, a Project 2025 named contributor, was an acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director during Trump’s first presidency, playing a key role in what became known as Trump's “family separation policy.” Previewing Trump 2.0 earlier this year, Homan said: “No one’s off the table. If you’re here illegally, you better be looking over your shoulder.” John Ratcliffe, Trump's pick to lead the CIA , was previously one of Trump's directors of national intelligence. He is a Project 2025 contributor. The document's chapter on U.S. intelligence was written by Dustin Carmack, Ratcliffe's chief of staff in the first Trump administration. Reflecting Ratcliffe's and Trump's approach, Carmack declared the intelligence establishment too cautious. Ratcliffe, like the chapter attributed to Carmack, is hawkish toward China. Throughout the Project 2025 document, Beijing is framed as a U.S. adversary that cannot be trusted. Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, wrote Project 2025's FCC chapter and is now Trump's pick to chair the panel. Carr wrote that the FCC chairman “is empowered with significant authority that is not shared” with other FCC members. He called for the FCC to address “threats to individual liberty posed by corporations that are abusing dominant positions in the market,” specifically “Big Tech and its attempts to drive diverse political viewpoints from the digital town square.” He called for more stringent transparency rules for social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube and “empower consumers to choose their own content filters and fact checkers, if any.” Carr and Ratcliffe would require Senate confirmation for their posts.Brazilian authorities have decided to keep four Argentine soccer players in preventive detention due to allegations of racist behavior during the Ladies Cup tournament last week in Sao Paulo. The players, members of the River Plate team, allegedly made racist remarks and gestures aimed at Brazil's Gremio team. The Sao Paulo Public Security Department announced the decision to detain Candela Diaz, Camila Duarte, Juana Cangaro, and Milagros Diaz, preventing them from leaving Brazil. In footage shared across social media, Candela Diaz appears to mimic a monkey off-camera, further fueling the allegations. Gremio released a statement describing how their players defended a ball boy and were reciprocally subjected to racial abuse. The Ladies Cup—the tournament aimed at promoting women's soccer—has eliminated River Plate and barred them for two years. River Plate condemned the behavior of their players, pledging disciplinary actions. (With inputs from agencies.)Refugee mum who slept in a car finds home with newborn
Article content It’s fair to say the federal Liberals’ 2020 ban on “assault-style” weapons has been a complete flop. It was launched after the April 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting during which Gabriel Wortman, masquerading as a Mountie, killed 22 people. All of Wortman’s five guns had been acquired illegally. One illegally in Canada, three others smuggled from the United States, while the fifth was taken from the hands of a policewoman Wortman murdered during his rampage. Because all of his guns were illegal, the Liberals, of course, convinced themselves the best way to reduce gun crime would be to ban hundreds of thousands of legally held firearms, just as the best way to prevent bank robberies is to ban legal withdrawals from bank accounts. However, it’s not the illogic of that 2020 ban and corresponding mass confiscation that make them a flop. It’s this one simple fact: In the nearly five years since the Liberals announced the largest seizure of personal property in Canadian history, not a single banned gun has been collected. Not one. If legally owned rifles are such a threat to public safety, how come all the guns that were in place before the ban are still in the same hands today? The ban and confiscation have so far cost taxpayers more than $70 million without even one gun being collected by the government. So what is the Trudeau government’s solution to its expensive failure? Maintaining the same illogic as the original ban, the Liberals are expanding the confiscation. Banning even more guns. Throwing good money after bad. On Thursday, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Public Services Minister Jean-Yves Duclos (Trudeau’s Quebec lieutenant) announced that hundreds of additional models of long guns will now be banned. Although few details were revealed, at least 100,000 more individual guns in the hands of law-abiding Canadians are likely to be made illegal. The ministers claimed the purpose for this expansion is to make Canada’s communities safer. However, the only possible explanation is that this is a wholly cynical attempt to revive Liberal fortunes in Toronto and Montreal, just like the two-month GST holiday is not about saving families money, but rather about regaining popularity for a woefully unpopular government. The Leblanc-Duclos announcement could have been made at any time, but it was made on the eve of the 35th anniversary of the École Polytechnique shootings in Montreal, and only a week after feminist and gun-control groups scolded the government for not moving faster on a 2023 law that would make firearms licence revocations easier. Also, Minister Duclos was there because he is the senior Quebec political minister and the ban has always been most popular in Quebec. Wednesday, the Leger polling group released its latest federal results showing that Trudeau and his party have shed another two percentage points since its GST holiday announcement. If a signature new initiative (GST holiday) fails to bolster your support, dig down in your bag for an old favourite: targeting law-abiding gunowners for the failure your government’s criminal justice reforms. Thursday’s order-in-council extending the five-year-old ban is about nothing but rebuilding Liberal fortunes in Toronto and Montreal, pure and simple. It is highly unlikely any confiscations will occur before the next federal election. Public safety is a charade. Surely, in the backrooms, away from cameras and microphones, where cabinet ministers can be frank, even the Liberals must know the problem is not legal gun, but illegal ones. In October, when Trudeau boasted about the two-year anniversary of his parallel handgun freeze and claimed it had made Canadian streets safer, police unions, police chiefs and others bristled. They know that handgun violence is up as much as 60 per cent since the freeze and that 85 to 90 per cent of criminal handguns are smuggled into Canada from the States. Expect Thursday’s enhanced ban to do no more to control crime than the Liberals’ other efforts.Tuch's short-handed goal helps the Sabres rally for a 4-2 win over the SharksMan City goalkeeper Ederson causes CHAOS after charging out of his box and leaving an open goal for Feyenoord's equaliser in 3-3 draw Manchester City threw away a three-goal lead in their draw against Feyenoord City goalkeeper Ederson charged out and left an open goal for the visitors SOCCER A-Z: Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on YouTube. New episodes every Wednesday and Friday By JAMES COHEN Published: 18:29 EST, 26 November 2024 | Updated: 18:30 EST, 26 November 2024 e-mail View comments Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson was left red-faced after charging out and leaving an open goal for Feyenoord to score a crucial equaliser. Pep Guardiola 's side had lost five matches in a row, in all competitions, prior to the Champions League clash and looked as though they were going to change that. An Ilkay Gundogan strike and Erling Haaland brace secured put the hosts in the driving seat at the Etihad stadium. However, Feyenoord hit back with three goals in the final 15 minutes of regular time to ensure that Guardiola's side did not leave with all three points. City goalkeeper Ederson will feel he played a large part in the Dutch giants taking a point from the match after rushing out of his goal to allow them to equalise. In the dying moments of the match, the Brazilian charged out of his goal but mistimed his run, which allowed David Hancko to put the ball into an empty net. Manchester City goalkeeper will feel at fault for their capitulation against Feyenoord The Brazilian came charging out of his goal but missed the ball to allow their equalising goal INCREDIBLE SCENES AT THE ETIHAD! 😳 From 3-0 down, Feyenoord are now DRAWING 3-3 with Man City! #UCLonPrime pic.twitter.com/pMUCrA0jLD — Amazon Prime Video Sport (@primevideosport) November 26, 2024 It was a curious decision from the City stopper and fans were quick to respond on social media. 'What was Ederson doing?' one fan asked as they shared a screenshot of Ederson flying out of his box. 'There's a reason why Ederson is behind Alisson in the Brazil national team pecking order,' another supporter said. Dragging another City player into the debate, one user wrote: 'Ederson and Gvardiol have genuinely bottled a 3-0 lead. That is impressive'. Speaking on the goal, Stuart Pearce told Amazon Prime: 'The line is so high, no pressure on the ball, they've helped it round the corner, the line's not straight, he's played onside and all you can see is black shirts around the box.' 'City play an aggressive high line, if you play that ad your players are full of confidence they'll know when to come up and when to stay with the runners. 'When the confidence is shaken a, little bit, you hold that line and you think "should I stay or not" and that hesitation costs you a goal.' Earlier in the game, Haaland took his goal tally for the campaign up to 17 goals after bagging a first-half brace against the visitors. City had looked in cruise control prior to a frantic 15-minute period at the end of the match Pep Guardiola's side are now six games without a win as they now head to title rivals Liverpool The first came from the penalty spot before he later slid in to convert from close range to double his tally on the night - prior to City's capitulation. Gundogan also found the back of the net after a deflected volley found its way past the Feyennord defence and goalkeeper. Erling Haaland Champions League Ilkay Gundogan Share or comment on this article: Man City goalkeeper Ederson causes CHAOS after charging out of his box and leaving an open goal for Feyenoord's equaliser in 3-3 draw e-mail Add comment