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Toronto Star
32 minutes ago
- Business
- Toronto Star
Here's how much the new Metrolinx CEO will get paid — plus his potential performance bonuses
New Metrolinx CEO Michael Lindsay will get paid $686,566 per year, with a potential to earn an additional $137,000 in bonuses, over the next three years during his term as head of the provincial transit agency. Lindsay's compensation, revealed as part of a government Order in Council, includes a bonus structure that ranges from zero to 20 per cent of his base $686,566 salary, 'based on his performance evaluation and subject to any statutory requirements or limitations.' His compensation also includes up to six weeks of paid vacation per year.
Perth Now
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Lindsay Lohan's son Luai is already 'mocking' her
Lindsay Lohan's two-year-old son is already making fun of her. The Freakier Friday actress, 38, has toddler Luai with her husband Bader Shammas, and her boy has started "mocking" her when she tries to tell him not to do something. She told E! News: "I have this thing, where I'm like, 'Luai, don't do that.' "And this morning before I was going to say it, he's like, 'Don't do that, Luai,' and looked at me and I was like, 'Oh my god, he's mocking me.'" Lindsay still has over a decade to go until she has to deal with the teenage rebellion years like Jamie Lee Curtis' character did in the original Freaky Friday film. She added: "I'm not in that position with my son yet. He's still a toddler. [But] he runs! Fast, out of the house. He's like, 'Outside!' Gone." Despite the challenges of parenthood, being a mother has "changed" the Parent Trap star. Jamie said: "Her priorities have changed. her main priority is her little boy. "This is a new mom and all of the complications of a new mom. And so the priorities have changed, but the friendship hasn't." In March 2024, Lindsay reflected on the way her mindset has changed since becoming a mother for the first time. She explained to E! News at the time: "I want to do things that my son can see. But I also want to do things that inspire me. "It's a learning process — I'm having a different go at it, figuring out what I want to do and how I want to do it." Lindsay, Bader and their son live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and while she does return to New York and Los Angeles when she can, being back in LA with her boy makes her "stressed". She told the US issue of ELLE magazine: "It's hard in Los Angeles. Even taking my son to the park in Los Angeles, I get stressed. I'm like, 'Are there cameras?' "In New York, there's no worry; no one bothers us. Everyone has their own thing going on. "There's a different kind of energy in New York. I'd rather have downtime in New York than I would in Los Angeles."
Daily Mail
19 hours ago
- Health
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE I got kicked in the testicles by a 6'5" bloke while playing football and it saved my LIFE
It's every bloke's worst nightmare, prompting a pain so sharp and an embarrassment so overwhelming that it can bring the toughest man to his knees. But for one miraculous cancer survivor, the dreadful experience of being kicked in the testicles saved his life, proving that even the darkest of clouds possess silver linings. Owen McNee fell victim to the toe-curling ordeal during a game of football with friends in Glasgow in 1989, eight months after he had married his wife Lindsay. The resulting lump led the then 26-year-old to visit his local GP, before being referred to hospital where tests eventually revealed testicular cancer. Having caught the illness early, an operation removing the offending testicle paired with ten weeks of chemotherapy meant the cancer was gone within a year. Now 62, Owen has set up a Gofundme in memory of his father-in-law, who died just months after being diagnosed with myeloma, and will embark on a lengthy cycle ride to raise money for Myeloma UK. Reflecting on his own battle with cancer, the retired chartered engineer admits he has his over-zealous pal to thank for a quick victory. He told MailOnline: 'I was [grateful he did it]. He was a big lad as well. David Williams was his name, six foot five. 'Big David...I kept telling him all about it after it. 'It wasn't the case where everybody was told to feel their nuts back then. 'It was only because I felt sore and felt a hard lump and the GP, he was bang on, he said, "stay in the hospital".' Has he ever told his mate he saved his life? 'I have. I actually went to watch them play football soon after and they were a man short, so I actually went onto the park, totally bald, with no hair on my body at all, to play football. 'And I was exhausted. It was quite funny because there were wee kids at the side of the park shouting, "baldy, baldy". 'I'm baldy now but back then I was a 28-year-old baldy. It was funny because it was back in Easterhouse where I grew up and all these boys were like me.' It's perhaps little surprise that, post cancer, Owen has been keen to get back onto the pitch whenever he can, given the remarkable boost the initial kickabout had on his life expectancy. That fateful day in 1989 did not have the hallmarks of a particularly unusual one for the footy fanatic as he gathered his stuff together for a typical fixture with his mates. But several moments of extremely good fortune later and it soon became a match the Scot would never forget. The first emerged the minute the group arrived, as they were forced into cancelling the planned game following a few drop-outs. This pushed them onto a smaller five-a-side pitch as an alternative, perhaps a factor behind the painful collision which cut his involvement in the match short. In agony, Owen visited the GP and then the hospital before being sent home with a clean bill of health. But just one week later, he checked himself in again after his back grew sore. A further round of tests revealed he had cancer. Owen had his testicle removed in a swift operation and was soon lying in the ward of a Victorian era hospital feeling rather sorry for himself. 'Being just married, we were obviously very upset,' he said. 'Until a typical Glaswegian breathing oxygen in the bed beside us started singing, "Owen, he's only got one ball, the other is in the surgeon's hall". 'This was through tears and everything else at this point.' Further encouragement was to be found in the consistent positivity of an oncology professor at Glasgow University who figured the cancer had just a 20 per cent chance of returning. 'He said: "It's curable, even if it comes back," and it did come back, and I had to do about a 12-week course of chemo - which was a week on and two weeks off.' On top of the singing compatriot in the neighbouring bed, laughter often proved just the tonic for Owen as he battled through a miserable year. 'There was always humour in what was happening but to be perfectly honest when the professor told me there was a cure then I just believed there was a cure. I didn't have any doubt after that. 'There were some issues moving through chemotherapy, including when we tried to play monopoly. 'With chemotherapy you actually lose dexterity in your fingers and we ended up all of us killing ourselves laughing because we couldn't pick up the pieces making the move. 'I will always remember that. Most of the time, we're in bed getting pumped full of this drug and then in the other times we actually tried to play a game and it was just daft. 'You would pick up a house and it would skate across the table. It's a fond memory of a hard time.' Soon he was cancer-free. The speed with which the illness had been spotted had proved pivotal in his chances of survival. 'It was gone after the chemo,' Owen said. 'It was a good cancer to get if you get it early enough. Any early cancer diagnosis is good.' For the next five or six years, Owen became a test case for an anti-chemo sickness drug, with doctors keeping a keen eye to see if his lymph nodes grew - which they did not. Making a habit of upsetting the odds, the cancer survivor was able to have a boy, named Scott, five years after receiving the all clear, despite being told ahead of his initial operation that this might prove impossible. He then had two more, a boy and a girl. His youngest is 25, while the middle child is now 27. Throughout the cancer ordeal, his wife Lindsay was a constant source of support. 'She was always there,' Owen added. 'It was tougher for her, for my family, my sisters, brothers and their kids.' Hell-bent on enjoying life after his miraculous recovery, Owen was 'determined' to retire by the age of 60 - an impressive feat he achieved two years ago - after becoming a partner at a consultant engineering firm. He has now changed his sport of choice to cycling, regularly cycling with friends - but only if there is a cake or coffee available at the end of the route. More importantly, Owen has became a serial fundraiser, regularly peddling to raise money over the last decade. His latest challenge will see him cycle 35 miles in the Tour de 4, Sir Chris Hoy's cancer charity initiative. His father-in-law was a cyclist into his eighties, inspiring the challenge, and won several veterans races. He died, aged 84, just six months after being diagnosed with myeloma, while Owen's mother-in-law also died from throat cancer. 'What disappointed me was that he degenerated so quickly,' he said. 'In his early 80s he had just bought a spin bike and was still doing the spin in the house. 'It didn't take very long and it was a lot of pain.' The latest fundraiser is a variation on a 13-year tradition which started when the Olympic Games headed to the UK in 2012. Owen added: 'I'm doing it with one of my mates, Ian. We do go occasionally for a cycle, and me and a lot of other mates have been doing charity since 2012 when the Olympics was in London. 'That year we cycled down to London and got there on the Saturday, and three of them ran the London Marathon on the Sunday. 'But this is just something for me and my pal, just to go and maybe think about the people [affected]. Cancer is distinct from the other things that we've been doing cycling for. '[We're particularly inspired by] Chris Hoy with him being a cyclist and stuff. We cycled in the velodrome, we had that experience. 'We're doing 35 miles. At 14 stone and six foot, it is quite hard going uphill.'
New York Post
a day ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Real-life witch reveals the one spell she refuses to cast: ‘It's wrong'
A real-life witch has revealed the one spell she refuses to cast – insisting 'it's wrong.' Lindsay Squire, 41, has been a practicing witch for nearly 18 years and casts spells for protection, money, abundance, self-love, prosperity, healing, banishing, and boundaries. Advertisement But there's one request she refuses to fulfill — love spells. Lindsay says she's frequently contacted by people wanting her to help them to get their crush to fall for them, but insists: 'It's wrong to try to make someone love you — they should want that themselves.' Lindsay says she rejects Hollywood stereotypes of witches – portrayed as 'Wicked Witch of the West-types' with green skin, warts, and a hooked nose – and says she practises a nature-based craft that focuses on intuition and tarot. 5 Lindsay Squire, 41, has been a practicing witch for nearly 18 years and casts spells for protection, money, abundance, self-love, prosperity, healing, banishing, and boundaries. Lindsay Squire / SWNS Advertisement As a 'green witch' — focusing on plants and nature — Lindsay refuses to perform 'manipulative' love spells, instead promoting realistic magic that supports personal growth. Lindsay, a witch and author, from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, said: 'Would you want someone to do a spell on you to force your feelings? I won't cross that line.' 'I receive at least one message every day from someone on Instagram asking if I would cast a love spell for them, and it usually involves making someone fall in love with them in some form or another. 'This kind of magic is manipulative and unethical, and could be making someone do something they would not do unless the spell is cast upon them.' Advertisement 5 Squire refuses to cast love spells, saying that 'it's wrong.' Lindsay Squire / SWNS Lindsay says she spells magic with a 'K' at the end and said: 'This is the differentiate between witchcraft magick and the kind of magic that is used for entertainment purposes such as pulling a rabbit out of a hat or cutting a person in half.' Lindsay hopes to reshape public perceptions of modern witches. She first became a witch in 2008 after feeling 'a strong spiritual call to begin practicing witchcraft' after regularly seeing psychic mediums in her teens. Advertisement Lindsay describes her entry into the practice as motivated by a deep connection with the natural world rather than any notion of supernatural powers. 'It's not Harry Potter,' she said. 'It was my relationship with nature, the energy I felt there, that made me realise I was a witch.' For the first decade, she kept her witchcraft hidden 'in the broom closet' due to social judgment and a devout Christian partner. Her family and friends, however, were supportive. 'You want to tell people, but not everyone can. It's a big part of who you are,' she said. After that partnership ended in 2017, she publicly embraced her identity. Advertisement 'It was really liberating to say 'yes, I'm a witch' and not hide anymore,' Lindsay said. Her life soon changed, and she began sharing her knowledge on Instagram, where her audience grew rapidly. 'I started posting educational content about witchcraft to help people who felt isolated starting out,' she said. That outreach led to a book deal — an 'unbelievably lucky' break via a direct message. Advertisement 5 As a 'green witch' – focusing on plants and nature – Lindsay refuses to perform 'manipulative' love spells, instead promoting realistic magic that supports personal growth. Lindsay Squire / SWNS She has since written eight books and is working on a ninth, produced her own tarot and oracle decks, and authored a graphic novel about Irish folk witch Biddy Early. Her Instagram following has soared to over 500,000, and her days of anonymity have evolved into a platform for education and community. Lindsay said: 'My books are for beginners and those with a little more knowledge, but all draw from that feeling of wanting to make sure others don't have to feel as isolated as I once did.' Advertisement Despite her visibility, she guards the details of her spells closely. 5 'Would you want someone to do a spell on you to force your feelings? I won't cross that line,' Squire said. Lindsay Squire / SWNS 'Many witches don't like to talk about specific spells, because it lets other people's energy in, which could affect the outcome,' she said. Still, she shares her everyday rituals, including protection spells, daily visualizations, and the use of crystals and herbs. Advertisement She also performs spells for prosperity and mental health, always underlining that witchcraft is not a cure-all. 'You can't just cast a spell and expect things to change. You have to work toward your goals,' she said. Before writing became her primary career, Lindsay made much of her living as a tarot reader, preferring face-to-face sessions to sense someone's energy better. She charges £30 for an in-depth Celtic Cross reading and £10 for a three-card spread. 'I always wanted people to get value, not just a perfunctory reading,' she said. Beyond the spells and cards, she emphasises modern witches are ordinary people. Lindsay said: 'There are so many more witches than people realise, but many aren't open about it because of lingering stereotypes. 'We're normal. We have jobs, kids, friends.' Lindsay says she is a 'green witch' — focusing on plants and nature. 'There are traditional witches, folk witches, Wiccans, pagans. It's like the different branches of Christianity,' she said. 5 Lindsay Squire has since written eight books and is working on a ninth, produced her own tarot and oracle decks, and authored a graphic novel about Irish folk witch Biddy Early. Lindsay Squire / SWNS When asked about the 'dark side' of witchcraft, she is clear. 'Some witches do hex or curse, and there's a misconception that magic is black or white, good or bad,' Lindsay said. 'But magic, like nature, is about balance — there's beauty and cruelty.' She emphasises it is about empowering and supporting, rather than controlling or harming. She said: 'We're not what people expect — but maybe, through a bit more understanding, we can add just a little more magic to the world.'
Daily Mirror
a day ago
- Daily Mirror
Traveller's clever hack can reduce waiting time at the airport 'by half'
A frequent traveller has shared an airport hack that has people stunned - and wondering why they've never thought of it before as she claims it works "90 percent of the time" A seasoned traveller has revealed their secret airport trick, leaving people baffled they hadn't thought of it themselves. Airports can be incredibly stressful environments, packed with lengthy queues, rigorous security procedures and inevitable delays. However, most travellers associate airport arrivals with anticipation for their upcoming adventure. Whilst countless people discuss strategies for smooth departures, fewer address the frustrations that arise when landing at your destination. Travel influencer Lindsay Mukaddam, known as @onegirlwandering, posted footage of herself positioned outside the terminal following her arrival in a clip that has since received over a million views. Lindsay explained: "Come to the departures level if the arrivals level is completely slammed with cars, because then the person whose picking you up can get up here with no issues and they don't have to wait in line." She noted in the caption: "I may look like crud after a 20 plus hour travel day, but at least I don't have to wait a moment longer to get home." Following the video's viral success, the travel influencer revealed to Insider that "this tactic works about 90 per cent of the time" in her experience. "When I have had a hard time using it, it has usually been during a very busy travel period, like a holiday weekend," Lindsay explained. In most instances and at most airports, passengers can actually be collected from the departures area rather than arrivals. While travellers are typically encouraged to head to the designated pick-up zone, there are no regulations preventing them from doing the opposite. Nevertheless, if you're planning to collect a loved one at departures, they can likely forget about a lengthy reunion beside the vehicle. Typically, passenger drop-off zones at departures are fast-moving, and motors aren't allowed to park, or if they are, not for extended periods. Airport officials may hand the driver a ticket for loitering. On Reddit, one user highlighted this, commenting, "If you do this, make sure they're waiting for you and not vice versa. In Nashville, if you attempt to pick someone up at departures, the airport police will probably give you a ticket, so make it as quick as possible." Some airports do offer brief parking facilities at departures. In these situations, there's no reason passengers can't be collected from this spot. One user joked: "Don't be sharing secrets like this, you're going to ruin it for us." @gwaipor wrote: "Sydney, Australia here. Doesn't work at Sydney airport. Get a fine for doing so." A Chicagoan added: "This does not work well at O'Hare."
