Red Deer RCMP have begun sending drones to some calls before officers arrive. Police say the Drone as First Responder program, known as DFR, is the first of its kind in Canada. It launched on June 18. The program runs Monday to Friday, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Drones take off from the north […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada’s governor was pulled over by a Las Vegas police officer in May for allegedly failing to stop at a red light before making a right turn in his pickup truck. He wasn’t ticketed after identifying himself. “I’m Joe Lombardo,” he said as the officer arrived at the passenger-side window, police […]

Ramara chambers was limited to standing room Monday morning. It may have been the first time the garage door was opened to make space for everyone, noted a resident in attendance. A deputation by Jen Dundas, executive director of Camp Couchiching, drew the crowd. She requested the township’s support for a safety review of the […]

A Democratic senator on Saturday alleged that whistleblowers have detailed several problems stemming from rushed or improper reconstruction of the Kennedy Center, adding a new layer to the travails of the arts complex as President Donald Trump tried to seize control of it and its name. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island said in a release […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Justice has subpoenaed New York Times journalists after they reported on security concerns involving the new, Qatari-gifted Air Force One, marking a dramatic escalation of President Donald Trump ’s campaign against the media that has drawn condemnation for eroding a fundamental freedom of American democracy. The new jet, a […]

Ottawa has plans to create a sweeping new digital regulator, which would enforce both online safety and privacy rules and take over oversight for tech companies from the privacy commissioner. Some critics say the government is creating a “super-regulator” — while others say there is a need for a strong regulatory body to tackle the […]

Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has tabbed Haldimand-Norfolk MP Leslyn Lewis as the party’s shadow minister for digital government and artificial intelligence. The move comes after the federal Liberals unveiled “AI for All,” the Carney government’s strategy  to encourage individual Canadians and businesses to adopt AI through investing in training and education meant to increase […]

Two weeks after the Trump administration was sued over its plan for a border wall through the Big Bend region of West Texas, with plaintiffs claiming the plan violated a federal law, the administration responded by waiving that law entirely for the wall project. The lawsuit was filed last month by the Presidio Municipal Development […]

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 […]

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 […]