NEW YORK (AP) — The former chief financial officer of The Epoch Times, a conservative multinational media company, interrupted jury selection at his money laundering trial on Thursday to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge in a $67 million fraud scheme. Weidong “Bill” Guan, 63, of Secaucus, New Jersey, entered the plea in Manhattan federal […]

Alberta’s government has imposed a raft of changes on K-12 schools it says are needed to keep “ideology” and “pornography” out of classrooms. The new rules also appear to have blocked child abuse prevention programming and dedicated 2SLGBTQ+ anti-discrmination educators. Beginning in the 2025 school year, schools were required to have any instruction materials related […]

Alex Shved is fighting his Stage 4 cancer on two fronts. Medication he is receiving as part of an early-stage trial is working with his body, he hopes, to attack melanoma that has metastasized. At the same time, he is taking up arms against another formidable foe: the health-care bureaucracy. Shved, 37, has tried various […]

Credit: Tom Bastin/Flickr CC BY 2.0 Here is what we’ve accomplished in the first half of 2026, thanks to your support: Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, was introduced on March 12, 2026. If adopted, this bill will lower the threshold for law enforcement agencies to gain access to […]

MANITOULIN—Every generation inherits its own argument over liberty and security. Today, that argument no longer echoes in courthouse halls or airport checkpoints. It hums quietly inside smartphones, encrypted messaging apps and server farms scattered across jurisdictions that do not answer to any single flag. And that is precisely where governments are trying to reach. In […]

— ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Sherrone Moore’s former executive assistant is suing the University of Michigan, claiming the school violated the Freedom of Information Act by denying requests made on her behalf after the football coach was fired for having an inappropriate relationship with her. Paige Shiver and her attorneys filed a lawsuit on […]

About 92 per cent of municipal leadership local government training in Saint John, which was recommended to be mandatory by the Local Governance Commission (LGC).  The Department of Local Government confirmed 550 local councillors and mayors attended the two days of training in the port city. It served as an introduction for both new and […]

Three options have been presented to the public for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Market Wharf and Market Square. Fundy Engineering was contracted by the Town of Saint Andrews following the rejection of an overpriced tender in the fall of last year.  Roughly 70 people attended the open house.   John McKelvey, Fundy’s director of survey, […]

Abiodun Adetu, founder of Naija Markets is elated as her recent July 4 event at Winnipeg’s iconic Forks marketplace was a huge hit. She juggled countless responsibilities—from coordinating nearly 100 vendors and driving promotional efforts to overseeing every last detail behind the scenes—to ensure the lively market ran seamlessly. “What began in Winnipeg has now […]

A document prepared for the federal artificial intelligence minister to use when pitching international investors on Canada’s AI ecosystem identifies a massive proposed increase in Canada’s data centre capacity. But spokespeople for the government pushed back strongly on the figure, saying it is not a projection of the capacity Canada expects to build, and the […]

New Brunswick Department of Health clarifies rules and regulations regarding practice Some New Brunswickers whose doctors have retired were shocked to discover there is a fee to have their medical records sent to them. Orphaned patients describe receiving communications from RSRS Records Solutions stating that the company now possesses their medical records. “Of course I […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an attempt by a conservative activist to obtain guardianship records in an effort to find ineligible voters in the presidential battleground state. The case has been wending its way through the courts for years and stems from attempts by conservatives to overturn President Joe […]