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CBC
an hour ago
- Climate
- CBC
2 lanes closed on Burlington Skyway for roadwork this weekend
The province is closing two lanes of the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) highway Niagara-bound at the Burlington Skyway Bridge for the weekend due to roadwork. The two lanes are scheduled to close at 10 p.m. Friday and reopen on Monday, June 2, at 5 a.m. Ramps to the Burlington Skyway Bridge from Eastport Drive will also be closed this weekend, while access to the QEW Niagara-bound from south of the lift bridge will remain open, the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) said. The Northshore Boulevard Interchange will remain open, according to the City of Burlington. "Eastport Drive collector lanes and Eastport Drive can be used as a detour/alternate route," said the city. The work was originally scheduled for May 23 to 26, but was delayed due to weather conditions. "Work is weather dependent and may be cancelled or delayed by the MTO," the city said. LINC work rescheduled to June 13-16 Maintenance work for the Lincoln M. Alexander Parkway was also planned for this weekend, but the city has rescheduled it, again. The City of Hamilton said it coordinated the revised date with the MTO due to their own maintenance of the Burlington Skyway. "Adjusting the timing of the LINC repairs ensures the two major routes are not affected at the same time," the city said. The closure will now take place starting the morning of June 13 and ending on June 16 at 5 a.m. It was originally scheduled for May 23 to 26. The Link will close from Golf Links and Mohawk Roads to the Red Hill Valley Parkway. "Residents are encouraged to plan ahead, use alternate routes during this time, and expect delays and increased traffic on surrounding roads. Motorists are reminded to follow posted detour signs and take extra caution in construction zones," said the city. The yearly maintenance road on the highway include: Resurfacing spots. Repairing asphalt. Removing graffiti. Repairing bridges and signage. Marking pavement. Ditching. Cleaning catch basins. Maintaining vegetation.
TimesLIVE
3 hours ago
- Automotive
- TimesLIVE
Hamilton says reports of engineer tension is ‘noise'
"It was literally there were areas where we had radio problems through the race, and I did not get information I wanted. We spoke afterwards," Hamilton told reporters at the Spanish Grand Prix on Thursday when asked for clarification. "There is a lot of speculation and most of it is BS. We have a great relationship. He is amazing to work with. He is a great guy, working so hard, we both are," said the Briton, who joined from Mercedes in January. "We don't always get it right every weekend. Do we have disagreements? Yes, like everyone does in relationships. But we work through them. We are in it together. "We both want to win a world championship together and we are both working towards lifting up the team. So it is all noise and we are not paying attention to it. It doesn't make a difference to the job we are trying to do." Hamilton said he and Adami, who previously worked with four-times world champion Sebastian Vettel and Spaniard Carlos Sainz, were learning more about each other and adapting the way they worked. "He has worked with lots of different drivers before. We don't have any problems whatsoever," said Hamilton, who won a sprint race in Shanghai but is otherwise yet to stand on a podium for Ferrari. The Briton finished fifth in Monaco, with teammate Charles Leclerc second in his home race.
New Statesman
4 hours ago
- Politics
- New Statesman
The populist right are infiltrating Scotland
Hamilton may – just possibly, just perhaps – shock Scotland again next Thursday, when yet another by-election takes place there. This time it is for the Holyrood Parliament, which didn't exist back in 1967, and the constituency is formally Hamilton, Stonehouse and Larkhall. This time the SNP is the incumbent. And it is not Labour that could snatch the seat away, but Reform. A year ago, the very idea would have been unthinkable, the proposition instantly dismissed. Reform was an English phenomenon – a very English phenomenon – and the party was barely making a dent in the debate north of the border. To adapt Ayn Rand: 'What do you think of us?' 'We don't think of you.' Well, Scotland's thinking about Reform now. The party is rising in the polls, perhaps not to Westminster levels, but to a significant degree – one recent survey suggested it could even form the next opposition at Holyrood. Richard Tice has visited Hamilton, and Nigel Farage is expected to do so before the vote. In the past both would have risked being chased out. No longer. Ordinary Scots are as fed up with their lot as their counterparts across England, Europe and the US. An enduring cost of living crisis, underperforming public services, government cuts to welfare – there are lots of reasons that people are now willing to hit the panic button. And Hamilton is a bellwether ahead of next May's devolved election. In an article for yesterday's Daily Record, First Minister John Swinney described Thursday's vote as 'a straight contest between the SNP and Nigel Farage's Reform UK'. Farage was 'a clear and present danger to our country and must be stopped', and Labour's campaign was 'in collapse'. Labour supporters who value liberal, progressive politics should therefore vote SNP to freeze Reform out, he argued. There's a neat symmetry to this request. When Scottish Labour was flying high ahead of last year's general election, Anas Sarwar asked SNP supporters to lend him their votes in order to remove the Conservatives from power at Westminster. Plenty did so. Until recently, he was making the same request to secure a change of regime in Edinburgh. But Labour's prospects now appear grim. The mis-steps of Keir Starmer's administration have seen many Scots lose faith in the party, and its polling numbers have slumped precipitously. Less than a year from a national election, Hamilton, Stonehouse and Larkhall is exactly the kind of seat an incoming government should be winning, but it's hard to find anyone, commentator or pollster, who thinks Labour has much of a chance. Coming third would be a humiliation, and would surely mean there is no way back. Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month Subscribe Of course, it suits Swinney to talk this way. Sarwar remains the only real threat to his continuing as first minister, and a narrative of Labour as declining also-rans fits the SNP's strategy perfectly. The Nats aren't losing many voters to Reform, so suggesting it's a straight shoot-out may push more staunch unionists into the Farage camp, further undermining Sarwar's position. Suppressing Labour at Reform's expense is not without consequence, though. Scotland has never experienced the kind of divisive racial politics that have played out in England. Reform has introduced them in Hamilton, with Farage falsely accusing Sarwar of saying 'he will prioritise the Pakistani community' and questioning whether he shares British 'values'. A tactic adopted by Reform in England will now be tested afresh in Scotland. Depressingly, this is likely to be just the first deployment of such racist, anti-immigrant rhetoric. How will the voters of Hamilton, and wider Scotland, react? Those drawn to Farage do seem to support the positions he has taken on immigration, the woke agenda and net zero. Scottish voters are not exceptional or especially progressive, whatever their mainstream politicians tell them. It's also true that we don't know exactly what is going on in Hamilton. There has been no constituency polling, and so most of what has come out is anecdotal – voters furious with the Labour government over its cuts to the winter fuel allowance and to health and disability benefits, disillusioned with the 18-years-long SNP administration, contemptuous towards what are seen as the distant elites at Westminster and Holyrood. Farage's recent pivot to the left – promising to restore winter fuel payments and end the two-child benefit cap – could prove persuasive to switherers, however wonky the financial calculations behind his pledges. The pollsters I've spoken to think it likely the SNP will hold on to the seat, simply because its vote is bearing up and because it is Labour that is losing people to Reform. But even they are uncertain, given the speed and sharp trajectory of Reform's rise in Scotland. They are unclear how the race-baiting tactic will play. Turnout and the strength of each party's ground operation will matter. Whatever happens on Thursday, there is more to follow. Rachel Reeves' expected cuts and tax rises, coupled with their impact on the Scottish Government's spending capacity, which is already hugely stretched, will have consequences. There is little to suggest disillusionment with the mainstream will cool any time soon. And here comes the Holyrood election. In a sense, Scotland is providing a perfectly timed storm for Reform, and Nigel Farage, to sail into. Gulp. [See also: How Scotland learned to love Nigel Farage] Related
The Sun
8 hours ago
- Automotive
- The Sun
Talk of friction with engineer "all noise"
BARCELONA: Lewis Hamilton said he has a great relationship with Ferrari race engineer Riccardo Adami and continuing speculation about friction between them is just noise. Terse radio exchanges at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, Hamilton's race debut in the Italian Formula One team's red overalls, raised questions in March and they resurfaced in Monaco last Sunday. Then the seven-times world champion was heard asking Adami over the team radio 'are you upset with me?' after the Italian did not respond to earlier messages. Ferrari explained that silence as being due to radio and signal problems in a race that features cars speeding through a tunnel. 'It was literally just there were areas where we had radio problems through the race, and I did not get information that I wanted. We spoke afterwards,' Hamilton told reporters at the Spanish Grand Prix on Thursday when asked for clarification. 'There is a lot of speculation and most of it is BS. We have a great relationship. He is amazing to work with. He is a great guy, working so hard, we both are,' added the Briton, who joined from Mercedes in January. 'We don't always get it right every weekend. Do we have disagreements? Yes, like everyone does in relationships. But we work through them. We are both in it together. 'We both want to win a world championship together and we are both working towards lifting the team up. So it is just all noise and we are not paying attention to it. It doesn't make a difference to the job we are trying to do.' Hamilton said he and Adami, who previously worked with four-times world champion Sebastian Vettel and Spaniard Carlos Sainz, were learning more and more about each other and adapting the way they worked. 'He has worked with lots of different drivers before. We don't have any problems whatsoever,' said Hamilton, who won a sprint race in Shanghai but is otherwise yet to stand on a podium for Ferrari. The Briton finished fifth in Monaco, with teammate Charles Leclerc second in his home race. Hamilton's radio comments also put him in the spotlight in Miami when he suggested sarcastically that the team 'have a tea-break while you're at it' as he waited for a strategy call.
The Sun
8 hours ago
- Automotive
- The Sun
Motor racing-Hamilton says talk of friction with engineer "all noise"
BARCELONA: Lewis Hamilton said he has a great relationship with Ferrari race engineer Riccardo Adami and continuing speculation about friction between them is just noise. Terse radio exchanges at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, Hamilton's race debut in the Italian Formula One team's red overalls, raised questions in March and they resurfaced in Monaco last Sunday. Then the seven-times world champion was heard asking Adami over the team radio 'are you upset with me?' after the Italian did not respond to earlier messages. Ferrari explained that silence as being due to radio and signal problems in a race that features cars speeding through a tunnel. 'It was literally just there were areas where we had radio problems through the race, and I did not get information that I wanted. We spoke afterwards,' Hamilton told reporters at the Spanish Grand Prix on Thursday when asked for clarification. 'There is a lot of speculation and most of it is BS. We have a great relationship. He is amazing to work with. He is a great guy, working so hard, we both are,' added the Briton, who joined from Mercedes in January. 'We don't always get it right every weekend. Do we have disagreements? Yes, like everyone does in relationships. But we work through them. We are both in it together. 'We both want to win a world championship together and we are both working towards lifting the team up. So it is just all noise and we are not paying attention to it. It doesn't make a difference to the job we are trying to do.' Hamilton said he and Adami, who previously worked with four-times world champion Sebastian Vettel and Spaniard Carlos Sainz, were learning more and more about each other and adapting the way they worked. 'He has worked with lots of different drivers before. We don't have any problems whatsoever,' said Hamilton, who won a sprint race in Shanghai but is otherwise yet to stand on a podium for Ferrari. The Briton finished fifth in Monaco, with teammate Charles Leclerc second in his home race. Hamilton's radio comments also put him in the spotlight in Miami when he suggested sarcastically that the team 'have a tea-break while you're at it' as he waited for a strategy call.
