Wollaston Township inadvertently posted a closed session of council where they discussed the ongoing discussions and negotiations to transfer Nellie Lunn Park to the Kawartha Land Trust with their legal counsel on the evening of July 24. The session was subsequently taken down after several hours, but not before it was heard and copied by […]

An Eskasoni teacher’s assistant wants to bring voices of Indigenous women into spaces where decisions are made.  She’ll now have an opportunity to do that since her June election to a national leadership position within the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC).   Terri Leigh Gould, who’s spirit name is Standing Buffalo, is now the Atlantic […]

A 26-year veteran of the Vancouver Police Department is facing charges of theft, fraud and breach of trust involving millions of dollars in a case the force’s chief is calling “deeply distressing.” Kalwinder Dosanjh, who is well known for his charitable work involving a foundation called Kids Play, was arrested on Thursday in a controlled […]

Hundreds of civil rights groups wrote the federal government to criticize status checks on international students during a Calgary protest.  Over 250 organizations signed a letter sent on Sept. 2, calling for an investigation into allegations that the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) issued removal orders to several people protesting changes to work permit eligibility. […]

When Simon’s wife of 43 years passed away, it felt a bit like he’d died too. In his overwhelming grief, Simon sought companionship online, like so many other lonely widows and widowers. Almost immediately he met Emily. But over the next few months, Emily, who Simon realized too late was a fake, stole $800,000 from […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An immigrant rights group sued the Trump administration Wednesday to block the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from using federal databases that it alleged are being used to target naturalized citizens who are eligible to vote. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington on behalf of the Coalition for […]

Federal judges have varied their commutes, hired private security and fortified their homes, including with panic buttons, amid a barrage of threats and harassment in recent months that has left many of them anxious about their safety, according to two new studies. In an astonishing admission, one judge acknowledged considering an alternative ruling to avoid […]

Crowsnest Pass council has advanced and deferred numerous initiatives for the 2027 budget process during a special budget meeting Aug. 19. The decisions came during the first review of council’s budget initiatives and were not final spending approvals. Administration told council that moving an initiative forward meant working out its details and including it for […]

Most Canadians could be forgiven for assuming a mine in Nunavut pays corporate income taxes. After all, Baffinland Iron Mines is the third-largest employer in the territory, behind the Government of Nunavut and Agnico Eagle Mines.  But Nunavut News could not find any evidence of Baffinland paying a single dollar of corporate income taxes to […]

Canada’s privacy commissioner is asking the Federal Court to order Google to de-list specific search results, after Google refused to comply with the watchdog’s recommendations. Privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne’s office said a year ago that Google wouldn’t implement its recommendation to de-list specific articles in the search results for an individual’s name. The case, which […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Blake Lively will get just over $400,000 of the $8 million she sought in legal costs from actor and director Justin Baldoni after they settled their fight over the production of their 2024 film “It Ends With Us,” a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Lewis J. Liman explained in a written […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — At 71 and a few years into retirement, Linda Henry felt like she was in good health, and only went to her doctor in Southern California for the occasional checkup. So it was a shock when she found out in 2024 that she had been enrolled in hospice, a specialized end-of-life […]