While U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced legal action Wednesday against New York officials over a 2019 state law allowing immigrants to obtain state-issued driver’s licenses regardless of legal status, the Empire State isn’t alone in having such a mandate on the books. At least 19 states and the District of Columbia have enacted similar […]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Among the approximately 400 inmates transferred when Illinois’ decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted of murder and 100 more are serving time for other violent offenses. Yet, nearly four in five of the offenders formerly housed at the suburban Chicago lockup were not shipped to top-level maximum-security […]

The federal privacy watchdog says he has launched a formal investigation into a cybersecurity breach involving a student information system used across Canada. Privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne says the probe was launched after his office received a breach report from U.S.-based PowerSchool, which provides the affected software, and a complaint about the incident. PowerSchool has told school boards in Newfoundland and Labrador, […]

Canada’s privacy commissioner is investigating a cyberattack involving a popular education technology software vendor used by the majority of Manitoba’s 38 public school boards. PowerSchool recently informed its local clients — many of which pay for its student information system — that an unauthorized third-party had accessed their data over the winter break. Schools across […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. judge on Monday ordered the fired head of the federal agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers to be reinstated while a court fight continues over his removal by President Donald Trump. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s order came hours after Hampton Dellinger sued the Republican president over his removal as […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of labor unions filed a lawsuit Monday asking a federal court to stop Elon Musk’s team from accessing private data at the Education Department, the Treasury Department and the Office of Personnel Management. The suit, led by the American Federation of Teachers, alleges the Trump administration violated federal privacy laws […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge is likely to quickly decide whether to grant Justice Department demands that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency be allowed to immediately resume accessing Treasury Department records containing personal data for millions of Americans. Judge Jeannette A. Vargas had ordered lawyers to meet and confer over any changes […]

Ontario’s NDP and Liberal leaders tried to keep voters focused on health care Monday, even as actions by the U.S. president threatened to once again draw attention elsewhere in the provincial election campaign. Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford has tried to make dealing with President Donald Trump the ballot question in the snap Feb. 27 […]

The last day of voting in the Ontario provincial election is on Thursday, February 27, 2025. We sent questions to the political parties who had sitting members in the previous legislature and were running candidates in the current election on Monday February 10th. Individual candidates will receive these on Wednesday, February 19th. The response deadline is Monday February […]

2025 sees elections across Canada with the following in the calendar:  Ongoing Federal Election:  Federal – Monday, April 28 Previous Provincial Elections:  Ontario Provincial Elections are to be called on or before in:   Newfoundland and Labrador for Tuesday, October 14th, 2025   Nunavut for Monday, October 27th, 2025  Yukon for Monday, November 3rd, 2025  Cultures of secrecy, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down an agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal. Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of Management and Budget, directed the CFPB, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Trump administration officials are openly questioning the judiciary’s authority to serve as a check on executive power as the new president’s sweeping agenda faces growing pushback from the courts. Over the past 24 hours, officials ranging from billionaire Elon Musk to Vice President JD Vance have not only criticized a federal […]