On March 26, the Owen Sound city council meeting was packed with residents as elected officials discussed whether to support one of TC Energy’s biggest clean energy projects. The Calgary-based energy giant has proposed a pumped storage project in Meaford, Ont., on the shores of Georgian Bay — a man-made reservoir built on the Niagara […]

After public backlash and media scrutiny, St. Catharines council on Monday night paused the previous enforcement of a bylaw to license bed and breakfasts.  The controversial bylaw was implemented in April of last year and required all bed and breakfasts to obtain a license in order to operate within city limits.   It was the first […]

The Region of Waterloo’s attempted acquisition of 770 acres of prime farmland has reached a new level of frustration for those battling against it. Fight for Farmland, the grassroots group behind the push for more transparency, has come up empty following 21 freedom of information (FOI) requests to the Region. Eighteen of them were completely […]

None of the 10 correctional facilities run by Corrections BC is fully compliant with Corrections Act or international standards outlined in the Nelson Mandela Rules (NMRs), according to the BC Ombudsperson’s 2024 Under Inspection Update report. The 10 adult correctional centres in B.C. house an average of 1,800 individuals at secure, medium and open security […]

Unpaid employees, an expired union contract and municipal leadership that was “missing in action” led Clyde River to ask the Government of Nunavut to appoint a supervisor to help manage its operations. Emails between the hamlet and Nunavut’s Department of Community and Government Services in 2023 show the municipality’s operations were struggling. Nunatsiaq News obtained […]

A new phishing scam of fake missing person posts are circling around social media, and Lethbridge police are urging the public to verify information on the internet before sharing. Police have noticed an influx of posts, primarily targeted to Facebook Buy and Sell groups, of missing pets, children and wandering seniors, with the intent of […]

Energy infrastructure is an attractive target for cyberattacks but the experts needed to protect critical electricity grids and pipelines are in short supply, according to the federal government. Canada — and most of the world — is facing a shortage of cybersecurity professionals across all sectors which could reach 85 million workers by 2030, according […]

Stettler county council wants to do more to help property owners understand their tax bills and will try some new strategies next year. Resolutions related to this issue were passed at the July 10 regular meeting of council. Reeve Larry Clarke asked that under the “council request for information” part of the agenda that councillors […]

A packed Thorold Council Chambers broke into applause on June 18th following a decisive 7-1 vote.  It had nothing to do with any controversial development application or the approval of a badly needed neighbourhood park — the type of council matters that often galvanize the general public, and their elected representatives. The vote was to […]

The abortion pill is slowly changing the reproductive health landscape in Alberta, new data suggests. When Mifegymiso came on the market in Canada in 2017, advocates and medical professionals hoped the medication would expand reproductive health care in rural and remote communities. In the years that followed, however, severe access issues in Alberta persisted and […]

The director of information technology at Elections BC has been put on administrative leave while the organization looks into a recent B.C. Supreme Court judgment that found he breached privacy rules in a previous job. The judgment found that Guy Gondor had copied private information to aid his son in a bylaw dispute while working […]

The president of the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC) says his organization is facing major cuts that risk setting the industry back a decade. This week, at the peak of tourism season, Keith Henry informed staff at ITAC that around half the organization’s staff will be laid off in November. He also said smaller […]