Marineland’s crumbling infrastructure, staffing shortage and lack of resources have created dangerous conditions for its belugas and they should be moved immediately, a fired beluga trainer says. Kristy Burgess, who worked at the Niagara Falls, Ont., park when a young beluga was put down in February, said Marineland’s threat to euthanize all 30 of its […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Before Bill Pulte started targeting President Donald Trump’s political enemies, he practiced on his own family. He accused his grandfather’s widow of insider trading. He was allegedly the driving force behind a website trashing an aunt as a “fake Christian.” And he publicly blasted another relative as “a fat slob,” “weirdo” and […]

President Donald Trump has tapped a career government attorney who worked behind the scenes for years to root out misconduct in federal law enforcement to serve as the Justice Department’s next internal watchdog. The White House on Friday named Don R. Berthiaume to serve as the department’s acting inspector general, a high-profile position that oversees […]

SYDNEY (AP) — The only Australian soldier to be charged with a war crime in Afghanistan pleaded not guilty Friday, but a prosecutor said he is unlikely to stand trial before 2027. Oliver Schulz, 44, is accused of shooting Afghan man Dad Mohammad three times in the head in an Uruzgan province wheat field in […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a law that aims to prevent people from using powerful artificial intelligence models for potentially catastrophic activities like building a bioweapon or shutting down a bank system. The move comes as Newsom touted California as a leader in AI regulation and criticized the inaction […]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince on Thursday ordered rental prices on commercial and residential properties in the kingdom’s capital, Riyadh, to be frozen for five years. The decision by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman comes as rental prices have rapidly risen in Riyadh after the coronavirus pandemic and as the […]

Despite years of congressional hearings, lawsuits, academic research, whistleblowers and testimony from parents and teenagers about the dangers of Instagram, Meta’s wildly popular app has failed to protect children from harm, with “woefully ineffective” safety measures, according to a new report from former employee and whistleblower Arturo Bejar and four nonprofit groups. Meta’s efforts at […]

The federal Bureau of Prisons said Thursday it is canceling a collective bargaining agreement with its workers and stripping them of union rights, the latest move by the Trump administration to gut labor protections for federal employees. Director William K. Marshall III told the agency’s nearly 35,000 employees that the union, the Council of Prison […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from immediately deporting Guatemalan migrant children who came to the U.S. alone back to their home country, the latest step in a court struggle over one of the most sensitive issues in Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda. The decision by U.S. District Judge […]

Sitting at the back of an auditorium, Randy Dickinson blasted a whistle, shocking the audience below him. The long-time advocate for people with disabilities had just finished reading aloud handwritten notes on all the problems facing NB Power, the public utility that’s under review by an independent panel appointed by the Holt Liberal government. “I’m […]

Conservative MP James Bezan is calling on Ottawa to reform its sanctions regime to target immediate family members of human rights abusers and tackle transnational repression. The Manitoba MP has tabled a private member’s bill that would direct law enforcement to help the government draft sanctions and require that ministers respond to parliamentary requests for […]

ATIKOKAN — After months of controversy and investigation, the Atikokan Native Friendship Centre (ANFC) has fired its executive director. The centre’s personnel committee posted a brief statement on the ANFC’s Facebook page this week confirming Sarah Laurich’s dismissal. “On review of the report on the investigation into the allegations made against our executive director, we […]