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Community members around B.C. who use wheelchairs or have other accessibility needs will soon have better access to taxis. The B.C. government has announced that additional funding has been allocated to launch its Passenger Transportation Accessibility Program.“The program will help offset the extra costs that taxi owner-operators face in providing wheelchair-accessible vehicles, which will help to increase the number of accessible taxis available,” Ministry of Transportation staff said in a release.The minister of transportation, Rob Fleming, said the new program will help facilitate a stronger transportation system that will make it easier for those living with accessibility issues to get…

A dog owner in Texas has upped his initial reward offer of $1,000 to $2,500 to anyone who safely returns his four-legged best friend.Steve Liollio, a commercial pipeline representative in Houston, has been searching for his lost French bulldog Bennie since late January, and it appears Bennie was stolen from a local gas station.”Bennie was accidentally let out by my yard guys on Wednesday, Jan. 25,” Liollio told Fox News Digital via Facebook. “[We] drove around looking for him, and with no luck, we made flyers and handed them out the next day.”AS MORE FRENCH BULLDOGS ARE STOLEN, PET LOVERS…

A dog owner in Texas is offering a $1,000 reward to anyone who safely returns his four-legged best friend.Steve Liollilo, a commercial pipeline representative in Houston, has been searching for his lost French bulldog Bennie since late January, and it appears Bennie was stolen from a local gas station.”Bennie was accidentally let out by my yard guys on Wednesday, Jan. 25,” Liollilo told Fox News Digital via Facebook. “[We] drove around looking for him, and with no luck, we made flyers and handed them out the next day.”AS MORE FRENCH BULLDOGS ARE STOLEN, PET LOVERS WANT TO KNOW: WHAT’S GOING…

Al Horford’s younger sister, Anna Horford, said that she has received “death and rape threats” over a tweet about LeBron James. On Saturday, Anna deleted a tweet about James’ now-viral tantrum during the Lakers-Celtics game, when a foul wasn’t called on James’ missed game-winning layup. The contest went into overtime and the Celtics defeated the Lakers 125-121 — with refs later confirming that they missed the call. “I tweeted & deleted ‘And the Oscar goes to’ about LeBron’s reaction & Lakers fans lost their damn minds,” Anna tweeted. “Like, that was one of my mildest tweets ever…” When someone asked…

A man in Utah, who is believed to have gone missing while hiking on a mountain, had shared a video on a snowy mountainous landscape before he disappeared, authorities said.Investigators in Sevier County shared the video online Monday in the hopes that the public would recognize the area so search and rescuers could pinpoint the location of Austin Madsen, who was last seen on Thursday while going for a hike in Kanab, Gephardt Daily reported.Officials said the video was possibly taken south of Monroe Mountain, and that a cellphone “ping” conducted by the Mapleton Police Department narrowed down a possible…

This is a comparison of Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee statement with the one issued after the Fed’s previous policymaking meeting on Dec. 14.Text removed from the December statement is in red with a horizontal line through the middle.Text appearing for the first time in the new statement is in red and underlined.Black text appears in both statements. Source: CNBC

The world’s largest humanitarian network says strong preparedness systems are ‘severely lacking’ despite three years of the COVID-19 pandemic.All countries remain “dangerously unprepared” for the next pandemic, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has warned, saying future health crises could also collide with increasingly likely climate-related disasters. Despite three “brutal” years of the COVID-19 pandemic, strong preparedness systems are “severely lacking”, the IFRC said in its World Disasters Report 2022, published on Monday. It called on countries to update their preparedness plans by year’s end. The world’s largest humanitarian network said building trust, equity…

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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point and gave little indication that it is nearing the end of this hiking cycle. Aligning with market expectations, the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee boosted the federal funds rate by 0.25 percentage point. That takes it to a target range of 4.5%-4.75%, the highest since October 2007. The move marked the eighth increase in a process that began in March 2022. By itself, the funds rate sets what banks charge each other for overnight borrowing, but it also spills through to many consumer debt products.The Fed is…

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