Advanced education critic Carla Beck is wondering how a man who plead guilty of assault was also appointed to the board of Northlands College. Beck said that the victim was Vincent Natomagan’s wife. The board appointment came from Saskatchewan’s cabinet under the recommendation of Advanced Education Minister Tina Beaudry-Mellor. Vincent Natomagan pleaded guilty to the […]
In the face of the ongoing “dumpster fire” at ICBC, the public insurer was billed $434 million in commission by auto insurance brokers last year. An analysis by Global News found that the 902 brokers in the province billed 33 per cent more in 2017/2018 than in 2011. The public insurer lost $1.3 billion overall last […]
More than a dozen asylum seekers and activists go on hunger strike in Tijuana, calling on US to speed up asylum process. Tijuana, Mexico – Nubia Morazan looked after her one-year-old son as he played outside their tent propped up beneath a freeway overpass just inches from Tijuana car traffic. It’s been more than 24 […]
OTTAWA — The federal ethics watchdog says he’s concerned that Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer’s office encouraged a Tory MP to violate the conflict-of-interest code for members of the House of Commons. Mario Dion says Calgary Conservative MP Stephanie Kusie contravened the code last March 29 when she posted on social media a letter she’d sent the […]
Defense Secretary Mattis approves plans to extend deployment of active-duty troops at southern border until January 31. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has approved plans to extend the deployment of active-duty US troops at the southern border with Mexico until January 31, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The 45-day extension was requested by the Department of […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – US authorities unsealed charges against four people in connection with offshore accounts opened with the help of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co, in the first US criminal prosecution to emerge from the so-called Panama Papers leak. Federal prosecutors in New York charged an account manager linked to Mossack Fonseca, […]
Four men have been charged in the US with fraud and tax evasion in connection with investigations prompted by the leaked Panama Papers. Justice officials said the four were involved in a “decades-long criminal scheme perpetrated by Mossack Fonseca”. Mossack Fonseca was the Panama-based law firm subjected to a massive leak of papers in 2016 […]
Four websites for the province’s health board (CIUSSS) in Montreal have been forced offline by a cyberattack. The outage affects the online pages for the CIUSSS Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de Montréal, Nord-de-l’Île-de-Montréal and l’Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal. Montreal public health made the announcement Tuesday afternoon on social media, saying its website is also down. “We apologize for any inconvenience,” the […]
Americans have not just been mourning the passing of a president, but also the vanishing of a bygone politics. For George Herbert Walker Bush was the last president of America’s greatest generation: a war hero who bemoaned the end of the patriotic bipartisanship that was such a feature of the early post-war years; a moderate […]
A body found near a Costa Rica Airbnb has reportedly been identified as the remains of a US tourist who went missing last week. Carla Stefaniak disappeared on 28 November during a trip to celebrate her 36th birthday. Walter Espinoza, head of Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department, was quoted by AP news agency as saying […]