A Valleyview library board member has resigned, stating the board is abusing its power, lacking transparency, dismissing public input, miscommunicating and intimidating the public.  Kelli Reimer resigned as a trustee on social media on March 4, after almost 15 years serving the library in different capacities. “Despite my commitment to advocating for library users and […]

A lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission has walked back his comments about a lack of resources and staff turnover interfering with the agency’s preparations for a trial involving Amazon’s Prime program. FTC lawyer Jonathan Cohen asked a federal judge during a hearing on Wednesday to delay the September trial and relax deadlines in the […]

A series of contentious Nova Scotia government bills — including one that would lift a ban on fracking and uranium mining — come before a legislature committee next week, and the province’s Opposition leader is urging the public to make its voice heard. NDP Leader Claudia Chender said people and groups with concerns should attend […]

FIPA President Mike Larsen, Vice President Robert Tremonti and Executive Director Jason Woywada were excited to attend the 27th Annual Victoria International Privacy & Security Summit. Jason was also pleased to be part of Session 15C – Concurrent Panel: Children’s Privacy and Safety Regulation and Policy – What to Look Out For in 2025? With […]

The Federal Trade Commission asked a federal judge on Wednesday to delay a trial in a case accusing Amazon of using deceptive practices in its Prime subscription program, citing staffing and budgetary challenges at the government agency. Jonathan Cohen, a lawyer for the FTC, made the request before U.S. District Judge John Chun, who is […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Attorneys for the daughter of a U.S.-sanctioned Russian billionaire asked a U.S. federal court Tuesday for access to the financial records of officials including the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, whose administration is under scrutiny for seizing and selling the family’s 265-foot (81-meter) megayacht and not releasing documents […]

Manitoba Education has discreetly dropped Grade 10 exams from its annual system-wide assessment schedule. The evaluations were originally designed to measure strengths and knowledge gaps up to and including Grade 9 content to inform teacher instruction for the remainder of a cohort’s high school career and provincial planning, policy and resource decisions. They never made […]

Ontario placed a 25 per cent surcharge on electricity exports to the United States on Monday as Canada braced for steel and aluminum duties the Trump administration is set to deploy on Wednesday. “I feel terrible for the American people, because it’s not the American people who started this trade war,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford […]

Russia said on Monday it was expelling two British diplomats based at the embassy in Moscow over spying allegations that the U.K. called “malicious and baseless.” Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, said in a statement quoted by the state news agency RIA Novosti that the two diplomats had provided false personal data while seeking […]

Canada remains in the crosshairs of U.S. President Donald Trump’s enormous tariff agenda, with steel and aluminum duties set to come into force on Wednesday. While U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that Trump will follow through on his plan to impose 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum imports into the U.S., […]

More than two months after being detected, the environmental cleanup of a massive diesel spill at an Irving truck stop on Beardsley Road in Woodstock continues. The full scope of the spill, initially detected on Dec. 12, 2024, only became evident in late February when CBC unveiled information garnered through a freedom of information request […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A fiery small plane crash in Tennessee last year that killed a Canadian family of five was most likely the result of an error by the father, who was piloting the plane, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report released this week. A yearlong investigation of the March 4, 2024, […]