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CTV News
21 hours ago
- CTV News
‘It's scary': Residents call for traffic safety review after fatal crash in west London
Residents in the Oakridge neighbourhood are calling for immediate traffic safety measures following a fatal motorcycle crash last week at Hyde Park Road and Fitzwilliam Boulevard. Neighbours say the intersection has long been a safety concern, and they've now launched a petition urging the city to take action. 'There have been ongoing issues at this intersection, especially for the last couple of years,' said area resident Pam Coulstring, whose home backs onto Hyde Park Road. Coulstring and neighbour Julia Da Fonseca started the petition in the wake of the crash, which happened just before 7 p.m. July 16. The motorcyclist involved died later in hospital. Police say the cause of the crash remains under investigation. 'To ask the city to reassess, to implement safety measures at the intersection of Hyde Park and Fitzwilliams Boulevard,' said Coulstring. hyde park safety A petition created by Pam Coulstring and Julia Da Fonseca calling for immediate traffic safety measures along Hyde Park Road, seen on July 21, 2025. (Reta Ismail/CTV News London) Retired paramedic Ron Liersch, whose house also back onto Hyde Park, said he's witnessed multiple accidents in the area, including one that damaged his property. 'There's been at least three other accidents. I had part of our wall taken out by an accident about a year ago, and it's really dangerous,' Liersch said. Residents say street racing and speeding are common, especially at night. 'Volume, speed — you'll hear them reaching down any time after 10 p.m. until 1 in the morning. They're racing up and down Hyde Park,' said Liersch. Bill Tucker, director of education with the Thames Valley District School Board and a longtime resident, said the concerns are valid. HYDE PARK SAFETY The intersection of Hyde Park Road and Fitzwilliam Boulevard. (Reta Ismail/CTV News London) 'It's scary, to be honest with you. And with grandchildren around, we have to make sure that we're holding hands and that we're with them crossing at the lights,' said Tucker. 'We've really noticed a pick-up in the speed and the traffic in this neighbourhood.' Ward 8 Coun. Steve Lehman said he's aware of the issue and has been in contact with city staff. 'I work constantly with our roads, our traffic folks, to see how we can mitigate these concerns and work toward a safer city,' said Lehman. The petition calls for a traffic calming assessment and will be submitted to city hall for consideration.
France 24
a day ago
- Politics
- France 24
Gaza civil defence says Israeli fire kills 93 aid seekers
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CBC
2 days ago
- Politics
- CBC
Surrey rallies public support in bid for South Asian heritage museum
The City of Surrey is on a mission to become the home of B.C.'s new South Asian heritage museum. The city has launched an online petition to gather public support. CBC's Sohrab Sandhu spoke with some residents who support the demand.
BBC News
2 days ago
- BBC News
Milton Keynes council to consult on safety of road after campaign
A council is to consult on plans to make a village road safer after campaigners described it as an "accident waiting to happen".Dubbed a "classic rat run", Walton Road in the village of Wavendon, Milton Keynes, has a S-bend with "two blind spots" which locals fear is Keynes City Council has been presented with a 230-strong petition calling for safety measures, and is considering options including a one-way system, speed humps - and closure.A spokesperson confirmed the authority would "install a bespoke device to alert motorists if there are pedestrians detected" despite "no incidents being reported to them since records began in 1980". The device is due to be installed next month and the authority said it will consult on options once "they have some weeks of safety data from the device". Trevor and Myra Hutton from the Walton Road Safety Group were among 20 residents who took the petition to a council meeting, but Mr Hutton said they were disappointed with the felt "the council still did not really get it" and that "they have been pushed into pledging to start the consultation".Mrs Hutton said the S-bend had "two blind spots and if you are on them and a car comes whizzing round, you don't stand a chance".She added the road would only be safer if a footpath was councillor David Hopkins said it was a "classic rat run" situation where drivers were seeking alternatives to the city's grid road said a lot of incidents on the road were "scrapes and bumps" but did not want "to see a child or adult lose their life to prompt the council into doing something". Wavendon is a village on the south-east edge of Milton Keynes that was featured in the Domesday is home to just a couple of hundred people, but is only two miles away from the Glebe Meadows development of almost 3,000 homes, and one of the largest distribution parks in the UK at Magna Park, where Amazon, John Lewis and Waitrose have to the Walton Road Residents Road Safety Group, between five and seven cars per minute drove through the S-bend on the morning school run, equating to more than 400 cars per council records suggest road safety has been a concern there for more than 30 years and the bend itself was considered so challenging that it was used by John Lewis for its driver training programme. Nadege Pierron told the BBC she had to wheel her pram up on to people's driveways to avoid cars on the said it was "scary for my daughter to walk as I always have to grab her" and added that her "eldest daughter uses the road to go walk to school and has nearly been crushed between two vans".Cliff Riley has lived on the road for four years and described the increase in traffic as "significant".He said when he tries to pull out onto the road he "personally gets abuse on a weekly basis from people flying around the corner".Amy Bicknell added she had "been nearly run over on the bend a few times because cars come flying around bend all the time".She wanted the road closed and said it could happen "if enough people say yes, because there are other routes around here" they could use instead. Follow Beds, Herts and Bucks news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
What to know about claim Trump's being asked to deport his wife, Melania
A rumor that circulated online in July 2025 claimed a person or group of people had asked U.S. President Donald Trump to deport his wife, Melania Trump, who was born in Slovenia and received U.S. citizenship in July 2006. Many users shared this rumor with the caption, "Donald Trump is now being asked to deport his own wife." For example, on July 15, a TikTok user posted a brief video (archived) promoting this rumor. That clip, receiving more than 3.1 million views and 629,000 likes, displayed the caption, "Donald Trump is now being asked to deport his own wife. He says he won't do it because she is family. Is this fair or does the U.S. president get privileges?" The video did not specify who asked for Melania Trump's deportation. This claim also circulated in other videos on Facebook, Instagram (archived), TikTok (archived) and X (archived), including some vaguely mentioning "a viral petition with thousands of signatures." Some of the clips featured inauthentic images, as well as deepfake visuals and artificial intelligence-generated audio allegedly depicting Donald Trump and Melania Trump responding to the rumor. According to searches of Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google and Yahoo, the rumor originated not with any governmental body, judge, other type of official or piece of legislation ordering or requesting Trump to deport his wife, but instead pertained to an online petition — just as some of the videos noted. As of July 18, that petition, launched on Jan. 24 and hosted on the progressive policy website displayed more than 12,700 signatures with a goal of 15,000. That goal increased in recent weeks, indicating its organizer sought to continually raise the desired number of signatures. The petition's title, misspelling the name of Barron Trump — the only child the president had with Melania Trump — read, "Deport Melania, Melania's parents and Baron in the first round of deportations!" The petition's organizer presented several points, including about the Trump administration's genuine desire to denaturalize some citizens, misleadingly labeling Barron Trump with the pejorative term "anchor baby" and falsely claiming Trump-issued documentation or legislation requires a person's "mother's mother" to have been born in the U.S. The petition also displayed a disclaimer at the top of the page, reading: MoveOn volunteers reviewed this petition and determined that it either may not reflect MoveOn members' progressive values, or that MoveOn members may disagree about whether to support this petition. MoveOn will not promote the petition beyond hosting it on our site. Snopes contacted the White House Press Office and a spokesperson for the first lady, asking if they wished to share a statement in response to the existence of the petition, as well as the videos. A White House spokesperson responded only, "This is obviously fake," without further explaining what they were calling "fake." We also contacted via email to ask about why they displayed the disclaimer disapproving of the petition, and will update this story if we receive further information. Trump's focus on denaturalizing some citizens The first part of the petition correctly noted the Trump administration's aim of deporting some naturalized citizens. On July 7, the Miami Herald reported the details of the administration's plans to prioritize looking at a specific kind of case for denaturalization: Now, the president has directed the Justice Department to bolster its resources in a major crackdown on naturalized citizens suspected of unlawfully obtaining their U.S. citizenship. According to a recent memo, the department plans to focus not only on individuals who may have lied about a crime or having done something illegal during the naturalization process. But authorities also plan to focus on others who may have committed a crime after becoming citizens — a generally untested legal frontier. The Department of Justice website hosts that memo, with the pertinent section beginning on Page 3 under the title "Prioritizing Denaturalization." In addition to individuals who "illegally procured" naturalization or procured naturalization by "concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation," the memo also mentions a number of different types of cases and crimes that would meet a standard for prioritized denaturalization. Barron Trump and 'mother's mother' claim The petition also claimed, misspelling Barron Trump's name again, "Melania's anchor baby, Baron, should be forced to leave as well because we know that his mother's mother was born in a different country. That is part of the criteria that Trump is putting into place. Your mother's mother has to have been born in the United States and we know Melania's mother was born elsewhere." This section labeled Barron Trump with the pejorative term "anchor baby." Cambridge Dictionary defines (archived) "anchor baby" as "an offensive term for a baby who is born in a country that gives all babies born there the right of citizenship, but whose parents are not citizens and do not have the right to live there. This term is used to accuse parents of using a baby as a way to get citizenship for themselves." The petition's usage of the term alleged Melania Trump gave birth to Barron to help herself receive U.S. citizenship. However, as PBS reported, Melania Trump received her green card, establishing her lawful permanent resident status, in 2001 — five years before Barron's birth in March 2006. She became a citizen in July 2006. A previously-published fact check examines a subject relating to this matter. We located no official documentation or legislation requiring a person's "mother's mother" to have been born in the U.S. A Trump-issued executive order from January targeting some aspects of birthright citizenship — guaranteed by the 14th Amendment — makes no mention of a person's "mother's mother" needing to be born in the country. Instead, his administration's proposed policy seeks to deny citizenship to infants born to parents living in the U.S. illegally or temporarily: Sec. 2. Policy. (a) It is the policy of the United States that no department or agency of the United States government shall issue documents recognizing United States citizenship, or accept documents issued by State, local, or other governments or authorities purporting to recognize United States citizenship, to persons: (1) when that person's mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person's father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person's birth, or (2) when that person's mother's presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person's father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person's birth. This policy, had the government enacted it prior to Barron's birth, would not have affected his automatic citizenship enshrined in the 14th Amendment. Regarding the petition's subject of Melania Trump's foreign-born parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, The New York Times reported they received U.S. citizenship through the family-based immigration program sometimes referenced as "chain migration" — a policy Donald Trump has repeatedly disparaged. For further reading, Snopes previously reported on the claim that Melania Trump improperly arrived in the U.S. on an EB-1 "Einstein" visa. "(45) Melania Trump." U.C. Santa Barbara, The American Presidency Project, "Anchor Baby." Cambridge Dictionary, Bustos, Sergio. "Birthright Citizenship Debate a Distraction, GOP Rivals Say." The Associated Press, 23 Aug. 2015, Caldwell, Alicia A., et al. "Melania Trump Modeled in U.S. Prior to Getting Work Visa." PBS News, The Associated Press, 5 Nov. 2016, CNN Editorial Research. "Melania Trump Fast Facts." CNN, 28 Nov. 2016, Correal, Annie, and Emily Cochrane. "Melania Trump's Parents Become U.S. Citizens, Using 'Chain Migration' Trump Hates." The New York Times, 9 Aug. 2018, Davies, Emily. "Melania Trump's Parents Become U.S. Citizens Through Chain Migration Program Targeted by President." 10 Aug. 2018, Diaz, Jaclyn. "DOJ Announces Plans to Prioritize Cases to Revoke Citizenship." NPR, 30 Jun. 2025, Eidell, Lynsey. "All About Melania Trump's Parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs." 4 Apr. 2024, "Employment-Based Immigration: First Preference EB-1." USCIS, 24 Jan. 2025, Evon, Dan. "Did Barron Trump Benefit from Birthright Citizenship?" Snopes, 3 Nov. 2018, "Federal Judge Says She Would Block Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order Nationwide." The Associated Press, 16 Jul. 2025, "Fourteenth Amendment." Constitution Annotated, Garcia, Arturo. "FACT CHECK: Did Melania Trump's Parents Arrive in the U.S. Through 'Chain Migration'?" Snopes, 8 Feb. 2018, Gunter, Joel. "What Is the Einstein Visa? And How Did Melania Trump Get One?" BBC, 2 Mar. 2018, Jordan, Mary. "Questions Linger about How Melania Trump, a Slovenian Model, Scored 'the Einstein Visa.'" The Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2018, Kim, Chloe. "President Trump's First 3 Children Did Not Receive Birthright Citizenship." The Associated Press, 1 Nov. 2018, "Melania Trump | Biography, Book, Age, & Facts." Britannica, "Melania Trump's Slovenian Parents Become US Citizens." BBC, 9 Aug. 2018, Neuman, Scott. "First Lady's Parents Become U.S. Citizens Thanks To 'Chain Migration.'" NPR, 10 Aug. 2018, "Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt." The White House, 29 Jan. 2025, "Protecting The Meaning And Value Of American Citizenship." The White House, 21 Jan. 2025, Sacchetti, Maria. "Records Confirm Trump's Mother-in-Law Came to U.S. through Process He Derided." The Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024, Weaver, Jay. "Justice Department, Driven by Trump Policy, Plans to Go after Naturalized U.S. Citizens." Miami Herald, 7 Jul. 2025,
