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Judge expresses sympathy for fired federal workers but questions if reinstatement is proper remedy
A federal judge expressed sympathy on Tuesday for thousands of federal employees who were suddenly fired by the Trump administration earlier this year, but he also voiced skepticism about whether reinstating them to their jobs was a proper remedy and questioned what the courts could ultimately do. Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson made the comments during…
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Ottawa looking for ways to mend tears in Canada’s social fabric, document shows
Senior federal officials have been looking quietly for ways to bring together Canadians who don’t see eye to eye on the economy, immigration and social issues. With a general election looming, officials prepared to meet last November to brainstorm solutions to the problem of social fragmentation, according to an internal presentation drafted by the Department…
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An ex-police officer implicated in leak of a Nashville school shooter’s journals has been arrested
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Nashville police lieutenant was arrested Tuesday on charges of theft, burglary and official misconduct after he was accused of taking case files, including records from a school shooting where three 9-year-olds and three adult staff were killed. In announcing the arrest of Garet Davidson, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation…
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Patrick Brown’s ‘reckless’ $11B debt plan would cost taxpayers almost $2K more each year
Regional councillors wasted no time in quashing a motion by Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown which sought to push the Region of Peel $11 billion into debt. The move came as council members labelled the idea “foolish” and “reckless”, while staff suggested it might be illegal. A staff report presented at the July 6 Peel Region…
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Vote to oust RoseAnne Archibald ‘not taken lightly’: AFN interim chief
HALIFAX — The dramatic vote to remove RoseAnne Archibald as the first female leader of the largest First Nations advocacy organization in Canada “was not taken lightly,” its interim chief told a gathering Tuesday, as some continued pushing for her reinstatement. Joanna Bernard, a regional chief from New Brunswick who was tapped to serve in…
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HCA Healthcare says data breach may affect 11 million patients in 20 states
BOSTON (AP) — Medical giant HCA Healthcare, which operates 180 hospitals in the U.S. and Britain, says the personal data of about 11 million patients in 20 states may have been stolen in a data breach. Samples of the data, including addresses, phone numbers, emails and birth dates, were posted to an online forum popular…
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Human error may have caused data breach involving more than 5,500 people in P.E.I.
CHARLOTTETOWN — Prince Edward Island says the personal information belonging to thousands of people may have been part of a privacy breach caused by human error. It says the information of 5,600 clients enrolled in a provincial employment program was inadvertently shared on June 13. The province did not say who had gained access to…
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No way of ‘adjudicating facts’ in deals between corrupt firms and prosecutors: judge
When Philippines businessman Rizalino Espino was named as a participant in a bribery scandal involving a Canadian company, he assumed his day in court meant that a judge would hear him out and weigh his version of the facts. Instead, it didn’t matter what evidence his lawyer presented. A judge in Quebec wrote in May…
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Europe signs off on a new privacy pact that allows people’s data to keep flowing to US
LONDON (AP) — The European Union signed off Monday on a new agreement over the privacy of people’s personal information that gets pinged across the Atlantic, aiming to ease European concerns about electronic spying by American intelligence agencies. The EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework has an adequate level of protection for personal data, the EU’s executive…