WASHINGTON (AP) — For nearly a year, public demand and increasingly outspoken calls from the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse have driven Congress to mostly set aside party politics and search for accountability. Yet even after interviews with some of the highest-ranked officials to ever appear before a congressional investigation, including a former president, […]

As many as 1,700 people may have been affected by a recent cybersecurity incident that remains under investigation, according to the GNWT. Affected individuals may include education staff, other territorial government employees, contractors and program participants who use the Canvas learning management platform, a May 21 news release stated. The GNWT warns that compromised information […]

THUNDER BAY — When a first responder arrives at a home, ERIK can provide them with “immediate information to help the client if they’re unconscious or can’t communicate,” according to Donna Nagy. Nagy is chair of Age Friendly Thunder Bay, which launched a revamped ERIK (emergency response information kit) alongside the Thunder Bay District Health […]

Premier Danielle Smith says the buck stops with her caucus when it comes to questions over why Smith didn’t know sooner about a massive breach of private information on Albertans. Smith’s United Conservative caucus has previously said one of their staffers was at an April 16 meeting in which private information on Albertans was shown […]

Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney says reports that Alberta separatists are targeting and spreading his personal information has prompted him to alter his security but won’t stop him from speaking out. “I’m not someone to live in fear,” Kenney said Thursday in a phone interview from Ottawa. “In fact, it only encourages me to double […]

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s chief of staff says a caucus staffer who attended a meeting about what was later found to be a massive data breach thought it was just about a new voter tool. Rob Anderson says in a social media post there’s no way the United Conservative Party caucus staffer could have known […]

Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party caucus says staff attended a separatist group’s virtual meeting about its website two weeks before the site became the focus of investigations into a massive breach of personal data. Caucus spokesperson Shanna Schulhauser said Tuesday that staff regularly attend meetings of political interest and were told the database was above […]

Less than a month after former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family died in a plane crash last year, investigators say two of their “friends” conspired to break into the empty home and took cash, guns and financial information in an attempt to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars. More than 40 search warrants […]

Membertou First Nation’s chief and council are resetting the cannabis law process they have been working on for several years because they feel it needs more community participation and perspectives. Retired senator Dan Christmas, whom Chief Terry Paul asked to lead the original process in 2023, says the chief and band council want to make […]

Many Chatham-Kent residents have been clamouring for change following a number of decisions made by Council during the 2022-26 term. The process of change begins on Friday when the nomination period for the 2026 Municipal Election opens. And there are already some major changes heading into the October 26 election. There will be three fewer […]

Many people know the sting of having said too much, a cringey feeling that bubbles up after sharing the wrong details at the wrong time. Now, imagine drunkenly telling two of your superiors about the time you had a bathroom emergency onstage in front of hundreds of people. Leslie John feared she had killed her […]

NEW YORK (AP) — After Pam Bondi became U.S. attorney general last year, conservative influencers, online sleuths and others who wanted the government to disclose all it knew about Jeffrey Epstein thought they might have a champion in the Department of Justice.So did Jess Michaels, one of the legions of women who have said they […]