A judge has granted Alberta’s government its request to question the former head of the provincial health authority about confidential emails she is accused of keeping and sharing without permission, including to media. The government’s request was made last month when it filed for an injunction in the high-profile lawsuit launched by Athana Mentzelopoulos, the […]

SEATTLE (AP) — Current and former Seattle police officers who attended President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” political rally on Jan. 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol are asking the nation’s highest court to keep their identities anonymous in public court records. Using “John Doe” pseudonyms, they sued over whether the investigation into their activities […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has begun making one of the controversial personnel changes for government employees that was spelled out in the conservative Project 2025 blueprint for his second term. He’s starting the process of reclassifying 50,000 federal employees under what’s known as Schedule F, which can make civil servants into political appointees […]

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit alleging that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arm misused hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations by investing it instead of using it for charitable purposes. U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby said a three-year statute of limitations on fraud claims in Utah passed before […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday imposed new restrictions on billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, limiting its access to Social Security systems that hold personal data on millions of Americans. U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander issued a preliminary injunction in the case, which was brought by a group of labor unions […]

Phillip BlancherLocal Journalism Initiative Reporter BROCKVILLE – A cyber attack which compromised the data of tens of thousands of current and former students, staff, and donors of the Upper Canada District School Board now has a price tag – approximately $3 million.  Trustees learned of the financial impact of the January 2025 hack on the […]

It is unclear what the provincial task force addressing homelessness and mental health problems has achieved so far. The Graphic received documents through the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIPP), which were supposed to contain meeting minutes from a task force put together last June, however most of the minutes were redacted […]

Saskatchewan’s health minister has rejected accusations from a nurses union and the Opposition NDP that some babies from Regina’s neonatal intensive care unit were sent to North Dakota for care. “No child has had to be moved out of the province for capacity issues,” Jeremy Cockrill told reporters Tuesday. “No patient has been moved out […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once considered separating Instagram from its parent company due to worries about antitrust litigation, according to an email shown Tuesday on the second day of an antitrust trial alleging Meta illegally monopolized the social media market. In the 2018 email, Zuckerberg wrote that he was beginning to wonder […]

LONDON (AP) — Social media company Meta said Monday that it will start using publicly available content from European users to train its artificial intelligence models, resuming work put on hold last year after activists raised concerns about data privacy. The company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said that it would train its AI systems […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A historic antitrust trial began Monday for Meta Platforms Inc. in a case that could force the tech giant to break off Instagram and WhatsApp, startups it bought more than a decade ago that have since grown into social media powerhouses.  The trial is bringing Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg into federal court […]

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