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RCMP say body recovered after man fleeing officers entered river
The RCMP says a man’s body was recovered from the St. Croix River after he tried to swim away from police officers in St. Stephen. Officers say they approached the man, who had been wanted for an alleged breach of a community sentence order, last Saturday and he fled, later seen struggling in the river,…
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Officer broke pursuit policy in Hay River crash, review finds
A review into a police chase through Hay River that resulted in a bystander’s vehicle being hit has found an officer broke RCMP policy on pursuits. Nicolinea Minakis was driving her daughter to school at around 8 a.m. on January 21 when another vehicle crashed into the side of her pickup truck in the Northwest…
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A Seasonal Boost: United Way Invites Community to Join Holiday Helping Hand
The demand for support continues to rise across Halton and Hamilton as families face high living costs, food insecurity, and growing pressure on social services. These stresses can feel especially acute at this time of year, which is why programs like United Way Halton and Hamilton’s (UWHH) Holiday Helping Hand play a critical role in…
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Laurentian Valley man pleads guilty of repeatedly entering neighbour’s garage to steal beer
Pembroke – A 61-year-old Laurentian Valley man who repeatedly entered his neighbor’s garage to steal beer and other items on his property was sentenced to four months house confinement including wearing a GPS ankle monitor to ensure he never step foot on his neighbour’s property for the foreseeable future. Terry Berryman stood before Justice Jeffery…
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Federal judge considers blocking DOGE from accessing Social Security data of millions of Americans
BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge is considering whether to temporarily block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Social Security Administration systems that hold sensitive data on millions of Americans. A group of labor unions and retirees sued the Trump administration and asked the court to issue an emergency order limiting DOGE’s access…
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Middle East latest: Hamas says it will free a US-Israeli hostage to keep ceasefire talks rolling
Hamas said on Friday it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual nationals who died in captivity in Gaza. The Palestinian militant group’s offer appears aimed at keeping up momentum on negotiations over the future of the Gaza ceasefire and the release of all…
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Judges don’t intervene after the Trump administration says it’s stopped destroying USAID records
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal judges in two separate lawsuits refused Friday to order the Trump administration to not destroy U.S. Agency for International Development records after it said it has disposed of only old or unneeded documents and is no longer destroying records anyway. Both cases involve the destruction of classified documents as part of…
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FEMA launches review of migrant shelter aid, suggesting smuggling laws were violated
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration has launched a review of organizations that provide temporary housing and other aid to migrants, suggesting they may have violated a law used to prosecute smugglers. The Department of Homeland Security has “significant concerns” that federal grants used to address a surge of migration under former President Joe…
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Gene Hackman’s estate asks court to block release of death investigation records
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A representative for the estate of actor Gene Hackman is seeking to block the public release of autopsy and investigative reports, especially photographs and police body-camera video, related to the recent deaths of Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa after their partially mummified bodies were discovered at their New Mexico home…
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B.C. legislation would give cabinet sweeping powers amid U.S. tariff threats
British Columbia’s government is proposing giving cabinet broad-reaching emergency powers to respond to what Premier David Eby calls the “human-caused disaster” coming in like a freight train from the United States. A bill, tabled in the legislature Thursday, gives cabinet the power to implement charges on vehicles using B.C. infrastructure, such as highways and ferries,…
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B.C. court grants production order to man defrauded out of $26 million in bitcoin
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted production orders to name cryptocurrency account holders to a man who claims he lost $26 million in bitcoin in a fraud connected to a person who claimed to live in Vancouver. The court ruling posted Thursday was issued last month involving Lixiao Wang, who petitioned the court for…