Opponents of the 2030 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in France have launched legal action to demand a public debate on the Games planned for the French Alps. A citizens’ group — Collectif Citoyen JOP 2030 — was joined in its action by some regional elected officials, members of parliament and civil society groups, and said […]

The Peterborough Police Service will be introducing a six-month pilot program of body-worn cameras possibly beginning as soon as Oct. 1,  Chief Stu Betts told the police service board Tuesday afternoon. Betts  says the service will obtain eight body-worn cameras to be deployed as  early as next month, but says full implementation will have to […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The identities of two women once listed as potential co-conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein will remain sealed for their safety and privacy, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. In a written decision, Judge Richard M. Berman rejected an NBC News request to make their identities public after lawyers for the women and the […]

Underwater noise is a serious threat to endangered Southern Resident killer whales, as ship and ferry traffic intensifies through some of the busiest waters off Vancouver Island. With ship traffic surging following the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline — and set to grow even more following a port expansion at Roberts Bank, south of […]

Sitting at the back of an auditorium, Randy Dickinson blasted a whistle, shocking the audience below him. The long-time advocate for people with disabilities had just finished reading aloud handwritten notes on all the problems facing NB Power, the public utility that’s under review by an independent panel appointed by the Holt Liberal government. “I’m […]

Conservative MP James Bezan is calling on Ottawa to reform its sanctions regime to target immediate family members of human rights abusers and tackle transnational repression. The Manitoba MP has tabled a private member’s bill that would direct law enforcement to help the government draft sanctions and require that ministers respond to parliamentary requests for […]

Critics are questioning what problem the Alberta government’s move to add mandatory citizenship markers to provincial identification aims to solve, and say it opens the door to potential privacy breaches and discrimination. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Monday the move is all about streamlining services and preventing election fraud.  Zool Suleman, a Vancouver-based immigration lawyer, […]

New York’s attorney general on Monday proposed regulations for its crackdown on addictive social media feeds for children, including rules for verifying a user’s age. The Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act, passed last year, prohibits social media companies from showing feeds personalized by algorithms to users under 18 unless they have a […]

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit against Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration in a funding dispute that has delayed a kinship caregiver law, which aims to support adults willing to care for young relatives who endured suspected abuse or neglect at home. The Democratic governor signed the legislation in 2024, […]

Last month, Alberta health officials celebrated a milestone for the province’s EMS-811 Shared Response Line, announcing the program had diverted more than 50,000 non-urgent 911 calls and freed up those ambulances for truly life-threatening emergencies. A closer look at the data shows that the majority of the calls referred to the health line bounced right […]

A report that could shed more light on why Manitoba’s former Progressive Conservative government rejected calls to search a landfill for the remains of two murder victims is being withheld under the province’s freedom of information law. Records obtained by The Canadian Press show senior bureaucrats assembled a presentation for cabinet ministers on a potential […]

The early-1960s revelation that British spy Kim Philby had worked for Moscow alarmed Canadian intelligence officials who feared that he had betrayed confidences gleaned from Soviet defector Igor Gouzenko, once-secret archival records show. Harold Adrian Russell “Kim” Philby was recruited by Russian intelligence in the 1930s. He joined Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI-6, […]