BlackBerry Ltd. is fighting court claims from its former chief marketing officer, who says she lost her job after complaining the company’s CEO sexually harassed her and then retaliated against her. New documents the Waterloo, Ont.-based technology firm filed in a U.S. court this week allege Neelam Sandhu has presented no evidence that shows her […]

BERLIN (AP) — A man suspected of promising to get weapons for an attack on Jewish targets in Germany was arrested Wednesday in Denmark, Germany’s top prosecutor said. The suspect, an Afghan national who was identified as Tawab M. in line with German privacy rules, had allegedly been in contact with a Danish national who […]

A national spy watchdog has found “a lack of rigour” in the way the Canada Revenue Agency selects charities for audits over terrorism concerns, saying the process introduces risks of bias and discrimination. In a newly released report, the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency says the Review and Analysis Division of the CRA’s charities […]

The Alberta government has chosen not to renew a regulation banning the practice of “carding” by police officers, but the province says the practice is still prohibited under other laws. The provincial regulation enforcing the ban was due for renewal this past summer, but a government letter to the Alberta Association of Police Governance and […]

In August 2021, a Toronto drug case took a dramatic turn when a prosecutor made what the judge called a “highly unusual” request, asking the court to throw out evidence by a key police witness. It came after defence lawyers had grilled Toronto Police Service Const. Ryan Kotzer over “disparaging comments about black people” in […]

For Charles Mwangi, the past five years have been “mental torture,” a series of bureaucratic hurdles and sleepless nights barrelling toward his possible deportation.  But on Saturday night, he felt something that had previously proven elusive: relief.  “I have experienced that torture for five years, then (Saturday) was the greatest day that I had ever […]

How old are you? What is your gender? Are you Indigenous? Are you a Canadian citizen? Do you have a family?  Those are just a few of the data points that a new artificial intelligence system will use to determine if somebody might be at risk of chronic homelessness in Ottawa, thanks to a team-up […]

An internal report from the federal public service released Monday says Black and racialized Privy Council Office employees experience racism and discrimination in the workplace. “Black and racialized employees — through dozens of examples of racial stereotyping, microaggressions, and verbal violence — described a workplace culture where such behaviour is regularly practised and normalized, including […]

The head of the federal public service says he is personally committed to “continuous action” to address racism and discrimination in the workplace, following the public release of an internal report that details employees’ troubling experiences on the job.  Privy Council clerk John Hannaford says the department has put a number of initiatives in place, […]

Ten national organizations including civil liberties, anti-racism, and groups representing immigrants and refugees are calling for the federal government to scrap plans for a “No Fly List” in a joint letter to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. We believe that the [No Fly] List raises grave concerns regarding […]