Though many AI tools have been approved for use in Calgary’s schools, robots won’t be teaching the city’s students. Both the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) and Calgary Catholic School District (CCSD), have approved the use of AI tools for teachers, citing the technology’s ability to rapidly personalize texts and create engaging lessons. In a […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Legal experts say President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax information raises a plethora of legal and ethical questions, including the propriety of the leader of the executive branch pursuing scorched-earth litigation against the very government he is in charge of. The lawsuit, filed […]

Police in southern New Brunswick are investigating allegations that at least 12 residents of a seniors complex in Saint John were victims of what investigators have described as sexual offences. The Saint John Police Force confirmed Friday that no arrests have been made. But Staff Sgt. Shawna Fowler said in a statement that police have […]

When most Grade 5 students spend their lunch hour playing games or chatting with friends, Legacie Shipman-Rogers is doing something extraordinary: teaching her peers to read and write Braille. At A.A. Wright Public School in Wallaceburg, the weekly Braille Club has become far more than an extracurricular activity. It’s a vibrant celebration of inclusion, led […]

Your Access and Privacy Online News Summary for Saturday, January 31st. This week, artificial intelligence is colliding with privacy, democracy, and public trust — from Google’s move to fold personal data directly into AI-powered search, to renewed federal plans for an online harms bill that could reshape how Canadians — especially children — experience the […]

Luis Martinez was on his way to work on a frigid Minneapolis morning when federal agents suddenly boxed him in, forcing the SUV he was driving to a dead stop in the middle of the street. Masked agents rapped on the window, demanding Martinez produce his ID. Then one held his cellphone inches from Martinez’s […]

Lydia Romero strained to hear her husband’s feeble voice through the phone. A week earlier, immigration agents had grabbed Julio César Peña from his front yard in Glendale, California. Now, he was in a hospital after suffering a ministroke. He was shackled to the bed by his hand and foot, he told Romero, and agents […]

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 […]

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 […]

Nearly all federal government executives received bonus pay last year even as departments fell short of many of their own performance goals, according to internal records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation through access-to-information requests. The documents show about 98 per cent of federal executives qualified for bonus payments in the 2024-25 fiscal year, the […]

Four years after a mass shooting in Nova Scotia claimed 22 lives, the RCMP have presented 32 awards to officers and staff for their roles in the manhunt and the public inquiry that followed. The awards, approved by RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme in May, are described in documents obtained under the federal access to information law by author and […]

Crime Stoppers of Halton continues to play a quiet but significant role in helping police solve crimes across the region, relying on anonymous tips from residents who see or know something and choose to speak up. Crime Stoppers of Halton has been operating in the region for 38 years. According to Colin Jessome, executive director […]