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The first director of Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure will be leaving her job in the city for a role in President Joe Biden’s administration, Mayor Bill Peduto announced Friday. Karina Ricks, who took the reins of the newly created DOMI in February 2017, will join the Federal Transit Administration as associate administrator for research, innovation and demonstration. The Peduto administration said the department was formed to promote safety, accessibility and sustainable transit in the city. Under her leadership, DOMI developed a plan early on to improve safety on Liberty Avenue in the Strip District, which is set to...

Belinda Stronach has slid while former boyfriend Peter MacKay has soared. Their failures and successes speak to the shifts in political mood.There was a moment in May 2005 when it appeared as though Belinda Stronach had managed, with a little help from her friends, to catapult herself over the entire Canadian political landscape, coming down, to considerable fanfare, among the top decision-makers in government. Without a shred of real political experience, without ever having held a job she was not appointed to by her father, without even a university degree, Stronach had claimed credit for uniting the right, placed second...

Stronach joins Domi in the sin bin Homewrecker accusations will tarnish MP's calm, cool image Don Martin National Post Wednesday, September 27, 2006 OTTAWA - They were always together -- and it always seemed so unnatural. On the campaign hustings in the middle of hockey season. Drinking in a trendy Toronto bar in March. Sharing a fruit plate at the Magna Golf Club in June. Whooping it up at the Calgary Stampede in July. And that was just 2006. The unlikely friendship between MP Belinda Stronach and retired Toronto hockey enforcer Tie Domi dates back years. You'd watch them...