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3.00pm: Record-breaking heat kills hundreds in Canada
A record-breaking heat wave has killed at least 486 people in the Canadian province of British Columbia this week.
On Sunday morning, Canada’s heat record had stood for 84 years. A monument in Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan marks the moment when the thermometer hit 45ºC in July 1937. That record was shattered in Lytton, BC on Sunday afternoon. The temperature then kept increasing in the village north of Vancouver for the next two days, setting new records. It topped out at 49.6ºC on Tuesday.
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Dr Brash and Tukaki on The AM Show. Credits: Video - The AM Show; Images - Getty Images/The AM Show
Former National Party leader Don Brash has held up Simon Bridges as proof MÄori don t need their own electorates to get into positions of power.Â
Dr Brash, who also led the ACT Party for a short time and currently spokesperson for lobby group Hobson s Pledge, says the controversial
He Puapua document is dangerous for our future by forcing Kiwis to choose between their MÄori ancestors . Every single person who identifies as MÄori in this country also has PÄkehÄ ancestors, he told The AM Show on Thursday.
Finlayson: Ritual disembowelling of Todd Muller a lesson to other MPs
Finlayson: Ritual disembowelling of Todd Muller a lesson to other MPs Wed, 30 Jun 2021, 12:20PM
Former National MP Chris Finlayson says if Judith Collins ritual disembowelling of Todd Muller is what it takes to stop MPs sniping about each other to media, then he fully backs it.
Finlayson has spoken out about the plight his party is in, saying former PM John Key had told them after the 2020 election to either quit leaking or quit the party, and Key was right.
Asked about Judith Collins move to force Todd Muller to resign after he was dobbed in for making unflattering comments about Harete Hipango to Newsroom, Finlayson told the NZ Herald that MPs had to learn to stop sniping about your colleagues .
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