WASHINGTON (AP) — The suspect detained after a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is believed to have made it past the outermost layer of security at the event at which President Donald Trump was scheduled to speak because he was a guest of the hotel, officials said Saturday. The shooting suspect was […]

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Nearly a year after the assassination of a Minnesota legislative leader, lawmakers across the U.S. have worked to fortify security in state capitols and improve safeguards when officials are in their communities. The changes have followed a rise in political violence nationwide that included the stunning assassination last June of […]

Prediction markets let people wager on just about anything — from basketball games to elections. And among the more jarring bets recently, the U.S. military capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The raid has evolved into an insider trading scandal. This week, the federal government charged a U.S. special forces soldier who was part […]

A new course has been preparing Nakusp Secondary School (NSS) students for post-grad life with skills and certifications in the Emergency Services field. Teachers Daniel Abraham and Dorian Boswell’s goals and vision for the course was to introduce students to hands-on training; encourage volunteerism; and embrace the unique educational opportunities of the Arrow Lakes region. […]

Town of Essex Council has approved a by-law that will allow Jet Wave – a business looking to rent out personal motorized watercrafts – to lease space at the Colchester Harbour.  The business will be able to lease space on the north-side of D Dock, as a result, in addition to space for a 10’by10’ […]

A federal review report says members of the military and key spy agencies should be able to expose wrongdoing and file complaints through the government’s whistleblowing regime. The recommendation is among almost three dozen suggested changes in the newly released review of the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act. The law, which came into force in […]

Your Access and Privacy Online News Summary for Saturday, April 25th. This week, access-to-information rights are under pressure in Ontario and British Columbia, civil society is warning Parliament about Bill C-22, and new Ipsos polling shows Canadians want stronger privacy rules for federal political parties.  We’ll also look at FOI records, AI policy, connected vehicles, and […]

LONDON (AP) — DNA and other confidential health data from 500,000 people who volunteered for a massive U.K. health study were offered for sale online in China following a data breach this week, the British government said Thursday. The information from the U.K. Biobank database was found listed for sale on the website Alibaba, but […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department’s internal watchdog announced a review Thursday of the department’s compliance with the law mandating the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, stepping into a politically sensitive saga that has shadowed the Trump administration over the past year. The audit from the inspector general’s office will focus on how the […]

The body of a Canadian tourist killed when a gunman opened fire from one of Mexico’s most visited pyramids has been turned over to her family, Mexican officials confirmed.  The attorney general’s office for Mexico state said the woman’s family went to its regional office this week in the municipality of Texcoco. “There, after necessary […]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government passed legislation Thursday that makes the records of the premier, cabinet ministers and their staff secret, after refusing to hold public hearings and speeding through a late-night sitting. Ford has admitted that part of the rationale for the clampdown is to kill a request from Global News to obtain his […]

Ontario’s opposition parties called on Premier Doug Ford to apologize for a personal insult he hurled — and repeated — at a Liberal member of provincial parliament Thursday during a debate about a law that restricts public access to his records. Most of the day’s question period was focused on amendments in the budget bill […]