Three Vermilion Parish residents and a new nonprofit have sued parish officials for alleged open meetings violations related to the landmark SpaceX deal. The stakes of the open meetings suit, filed Monday, are high. It could void the tax incentive agreement reached to land the $100 billion bill, if the court grants the relief sought. […]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday he feels “terrible” for honest students caught up in a career college system where financial aid is now unavailable, but opposition leaders say the students are only in that situation because of him. Colleges and Universities Minister Nolan Quinn paused Ontario Student Assistance Program payments at all private post-secondary […]

Ontario delayed inspections of two career colleges that ultimately turned up serious concerns about student financial aid use, which meant the schools received a “fail” only after they had been approved for funding for another year, court records show. Critics say it points to severe mismanagement of public money and the government has made the […]

In the increasingly bitter legal standoff between President Donald Trump and media outlets whose reporting he dislikes, a new and crucial third party has emerged: citizens who watch and read the news and need it to do their jobs. A lawsuit filed Monday on behalf of six such citizens — essentially representing the wider public […]

Provincial politicians are returning to the Ontario legislature Tuesday for the first time in 21 weeks with some new faces thanks to three byelections, a rejigged cabinet and a new cloud of scandal hanging over the government’s head. The spotlight in question period is expected to largely focus on Colleges and Universities Minister Nolan Quinn, […]

The coroner’s report on 70-year old Robert Hénault’s death weeks after a cop shot him was inconclusive.  Without a detailed record of the encounter with Montreal police, coroner Paul Dionne couldn’t form a clear opinion, so he recommended that the police wear body cameras.  That 2015 decision sparked the first embers of over a decade […]

Numerous privacy breaches and an increase in AI-generated information requests were among some of the issues raised in the 2025-26 report from the NWT Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC). Unauthorized health information “snooping” was among the issues noted. Health Information Act investigations found unauthorized employees accessing electronic medical records for “non-service reasons,” […]

(ANNews) – As debate over Alberta’s potential separation from Canada continued, lawyer Donna Purcell, KC, and strategist Jacqueline Biollo organized a public forum in Central Alberta on Oct. 16 to bring their concerns about public division and the need for informed discussion to the forefront. In an interview with Alberta Native News, the two organizers […]

Havana is urging Ottawa not to drop its public opposition to the decades-long U.S. embargo as Washington ramps up pressure on countries supporting Cuba. “We are confident that Canada will stay with us, as they have done in the past,” Cuban Ambassador to Canada Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz told The Canadian Press. “The blockade and this […]

In the eleventh hour of this council term, St. Catharines Mayor Mat Siscoe has pushed forward a major initiative connected to the former General Motors (GM) lands that provides financial incentives for remediation and redevelopment.   Using the mayor’s own figures, it’s a plan that could cost residents hundreds of millions of dollars and will leave […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is on track to deport about 660,000 people over the past year, a new report released Thursday shows, as arrests ramp up across the country fueled by billions of dollars meant to supercharge his immigration agenda. The report by the Migration Policy Institute shows deportations increased from 620,000 […]

A company planning a massive data centre in Nova Scotia for artificial intelligence giant Anthropic is in the midst of a dispute about land fees for a troubled wind-powered hydrogen project in southern Newfoundland. The Newfoundland and Labrador government confirmed Tuesday that it was still trying to collect outstanding fees from EverWind Fuels for Crown […]