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CTV News
5 days ago
- General
- CTV News
No flying of drones over Caledon golf course during RBC Canadian Open: police
Jee-Yun Lee speaks with Osprey Valley golf course owner about hosting this year's RBC Canadian Open. Ontario Provincial Police have issued a no-fly zone for the RBC Canadian Open. In a news release, police said unauthorized operation of drones or unmanned aerial vehicles will be prohibited over and around TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley in Caledon where the tournament is being held this year. The no-fly zone will be in effect from 10 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. between June 4 and 8. Ten of the top 33 ranked golf players in the world are set to compete in the Open this week, including defending champion Robert McIntyre and World No. 2 Rory McIlroy, who won it twice. Nick Taylor is among the 21 Canadian golfers will tee up at TPC Toronto. Taylor won the Canadian Open in 2023. TSN will have a complete coverage of the RBC Canadian Open this week. TSN, CTV News and CP24 are divisions of Bell Media.
The National
6 days ago
- Politics
- The National
Debating toilet use should not be a top priority for our MSPs
Perhaps those of a similar political persuasion would gather in wee groups and discuss the state of the world today. Just imagine Robert McIntyre, Jimmy Halliday, Arthur Donaldson, Willie Wolfe, Gordon Wilson, Winnie Ewing and of course Alex Salmond looking down on the Scottish Parliament they gave their entire political lives to create. I wonder what they would make of last Tuesday's 'emergency debate' on who could use which toilet. READ MORE: Toilet use at Holyrood will not be 'policed', MSPs told amid trans toilet ban There are increasing calls in some sections of the press and social media to 'abolish Holyrood' and use the many millions of pounds it takes to run it to provide essential services via local authorities and health boards. It took from the SNP's foundation in the 1930s to 1999 to establish the parliament. It could take an Act of the UK Parliament only a very short time to close it down. Perhaps that might prove an attractive proposition for a future Reform UK government led by Nigel Farage. If we are not very careful, a section of the Scottish electorate – totally scunnered by the parliament's apparent obsession with gender, sex and toilets – might come to the same conclusion. In my imaginary heaven there would also be a much larger group of SNP activists. Some did not even live to see the opening of the parliament in 1999. They spent almost every minute of their spare time (unpaid) delivering leaflets, raising money, knocking on doors and writing letters to unsympathetic newspapers in the hope of seeing an independent Scotland. I suspect they did not do it to see it result in Tuesday's toilet debate. READ MORE: Second legal action launched against EHRC over trans guidance While in Scotland more than 10,000 children and more than 16,000 families have no permanent home, let alone a toilet, to call their own, our MSPs are squabbling over who gets to use which of the many available Holyrood toilets. Other important topics – for example, Scottish NHS waiting times – seem to be slipping down Holyrood's political agenda. Waits of more than two years for NHS specialist appointments and treatment in Scotland have grown in the past year. Public Health Scotland said the waiting list for those referred to an outpatient clinic more than two years ago was at the highest level it had ever recorded, with the number more than tripling to 5262. Government targets to provide treatment within 12 weeks were also still not being met for thousands of patients, with 24% of waits going on for more than a year. Gynaecology cases are now among the worst-affected by delays in treatment. Nearly 13,000 women are waiting for hospital treatment, with three-quarters of them waiting more than the government's 12-week target and more than a third for more than a year. Across Scotland, this specialism has the biggest number of patients waiting for at least THREE years for help. I suspect these women would consider themselves more of a priority for an 'emergency debate' at Holyrood than one on the toileting arrangements for MSPs and their staff. Iain Wilson Stirling IAIN Bruce's letters in the Sunday National was the most sensible letter I have seen in a long time. The claim by the SNP leadership that they want to put power into the hands of the Scottish people is, as Iain points out, entirely within their power, if they are being honest about that objective. All they need to do is to talk to the Greens and Alba to form a majority in the Scottish Parliament, and to vote to accept petition number PE2135, on the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which is currently before parliament. READ MORE: Submission to the UN puts Scotland in a win-win situation The UK establishment and the civil service are bitterly opposed to this petition, and the Tories are keen to have it rejected without consideration, but the Scottish Parliament has the legal power under the current Scotland Act to put this UN covenant into Scots law, and if they did this the Scottish people would have the power to have a referendum on any civil or political issue including independence, and this would be valid in Scottish and international law. So why are the SNP afraid to do this? Why are they allowing the UK-orientated civil service to lead them by the nose on this issue? If the SNP leadership got off their knees and took the political initiative for a change, instead of hiding away from important issues, they could reverse their failing political profile before the coming election. The question is, have they got what it takes to play the leading role? If they do what Iain asks and implement the PE2135 petition, then they will be taking the lead at last and bringing power to the people. Fiona Hicks Ardrossan IN the last few months I have noticed the voiceovers on the 38 bus on which I regularly travel to the southside of Glasgow. The pronunciation of ROUKEN GLEN is consistently wrong and jarring. The voice says ROWKEN and the emphasis is wrong too. I wonder if this is AI? Deirdre Forsyth Glasgow
