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Liberia’s largest gold miner repeatedly spilled dangerous chemicals, records show
JIKANDOR, Liberia (AP) — For generations, families in Jikandor village fished and drank from the river that runs through Liberia ’s dense rain forest. Now toxic pollution is making them leave. They blame the largest gold miner in Liberia, Bea Mountain Mining Corporation. When dead fish float to the surface, they said, they know to…
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Pre-election insights for potential Penetanguishene council nominees
There are under 100 days for residents to decide if they would like to run as a candidate in the 2026 municipal election, and first-term Penetanguishene council members shared what to expect in preparation to have their name put on the ballot. At the recent regular meeting of council, Penetanguishene clerk Kelly Cole was asked…
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MP highlights need for Federal tools and collaboration in addressing extortion crimes
Following an Anti-Extortion Summit held in Brampton on Tuesday, January 13, the Government of Canada is providing Peel Region with up to $1 million to combat extortion crime. Ruby Sahota, MP for Brampton North-Caledon, has discussed hopeful changes in extortion-related cases in Peel. At the Summit, Sahota says she was happy to see so many…
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Tory bill would extend sanctions to target relatives of human rights abusers
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…
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Immigration lawyer, critics raise concerns about citizenship marker on Alberta ID
Critics are questioning what problem the Alberta government’s move to add mandatory citizenship markers to provincial identification aims to solve, and say it opens the door to potential privacy breaches and discrimination. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Monday the move is all about streamlining services and preventing election fraud. Zool Suleman, a Vancouver-based immigration lawyer,…
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New York’s ban on addictive social media feeds for kids takes shape with proposed rules
New York’s attorney general on Monday proposed regulations for its crackdown on addictive social media feeds for children, including rules for verifying a user’s age. The Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act, passed last year, prohibits social media companies from showing feeds personalized by algorithms to users under 18 unless they have a…
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Lawsuit dismissed in funding dispute over kinship caregiver law in Kentucky
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit against Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s administration in a funding dispute that has delayed a kinship caregiver law, which aims to support adults willing to care for young relatives who endured suspected abuse or neglect at home. The Democratic governor signed the legislation in 2024,…
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Majority of 911 calls diverted to Alberta’s non-urgent health line returned to EMS
Last month, Alberta health officials celebrated a milestone for the province’s EMS-811 Shared Response Line, announcing the program had diverted more than 50,000 non-urgent 911 calls and freed up those ambulances for truly life-threatening emergencies. A closer look at the data shows that the majority of the calls referred to the health line bounced right…
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Manitoba cabinet briefing on landfill search for murder victims not being released
A report that could shed more light on why Manitoba’s former Progressive Conservative government rejected calls to search a landfill for the remains of two murder victims is being withheld under the province’s freedom of information law. Records obtained by The Canadian Press show senior bureaucrats assembled a presentation for cabinet ministers on a potential…
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RCMP feared traitor Kim Philby knew ‘most interesting’ Canadian secrets: documents
The early-1960s revelation that British spy Kim Philby had worked for Moscow alarmed Canadian intelligence officials who feared that he had betrayed confidences gleaned from Soviet defector Igor Gouzenko, once-secret archival records show. Harold Adrian Russell “Kim” Philby was recruited by Russian intelligence in the 1930s. He joined Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI-6,…
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Atikokan Native Friendship Centre terminates executive director
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…