TORONTO – Ontario’s integrity commissioner says there are insufficient grounds to conduct an inquiry into the social services minister warning a group of behaviour analysts of consequences if they didn’t support her new autism program. Lisa MacLeod apologized after the Ontario Association for Behaviour Analysis said she and her staff told them it would be […]
Julian Assange is facing 17 more charges in the US for allegedly receiving and publishing classified information. The US claims his actions “risked serious harm” to the country after he published thousands of secret and classified documents. It filed an 18-count indictment on Thursday, which includes an initial indictment made public last month. The initial […]
Subway workers began raising alarms in recent months: Emergency brakes on New York City subway trains were being pulled deliberately, acts of apparent sabotage that were setting off major delays on the sprawling system. There were clues. A man spotted surfing on the back of a train. The door to a rear cabin on another […]
The circumstances have been similar: they cross the southern US border without the proper documents, get detained by border patrol agents and, shortly after, die of health complications. Six children have died since September while in US custody. Just this week, US authorities said a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant had died on Monday and revealed that […]
Metro Vancouver will be getting 200 new SkyTrain cars. The purchase was made at a joint federal-provincial announcement in Burnaby on Thursday, where officials provided details on how $1.47 billion in previously pledged funding will be spent. TransLink is putting up more than $397 million, the federal government is contributing $493 million and the province […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Facebook on Thursday (May 23) said it recently disabled billions of bogus accounts set up by “bad actors” and that five per cent of active accounts are likely fakes. An estimate of how many of the online social networks accounts are fake and actions taken against the creation of more during […]
A former firefighter who filed a human rights complaint against Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Services finished her testimony at the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission’s Board of Inquiry on Thursday morning. Kathleen Symington has alleged that the fire service discriminated against her based on her gender and disability. While on leave between 2004 and […]
The Office of the Ontario Fire Marshal is investigating following a reported explosion at a gas station in Colborne on Thursday morning. Around 7:10 a.m., Cramahe Township firefighters were called to the Ultramar gas station on Orchard Road near Big Apple Drive after an employee reported hearing an explosion in the basement of the building. […]
In further pressure on Tehran, US revokes waivers on uranium enrichment, as Rouhani urges unity in ‘war on hope’. The United States has tightened restrictions on Iran’s nuclear programme by revoking two key sanctions waivers in a bid to force Tehran to stop producing low-enriched uranium and expanding its only nuclear power plant. The two […]
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is pledging to get tough on crime with mandatory minimum sentences of five years for anyone convicted of abusing children. Scheer, who made the announcement in a Montreal suburb this morning, says he will ensure sentences for sexual crimes against children take into account the length and severity of […]