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Bebawi was sentenced in 2020 to eight and a half years in prison for his role in the corruption scheme between the engineering firm and Moammar Gadhafi’s Libyan regime. He was released after serving one-sixth of his sentence.

In 2016, Gladu was voted “most collegial” MP in a survey of her colleagues. But in the years since she has made headlines for different reasons.

Several environmental groups have launched a constitutional challenge seeking to kill an Ontario law that allows cabinet to suspend other laws.

In June 2024, an Ontario man who was visiting Montreal parked his car, a Honda Accord, on the street in a central neighbourhood. The next day, it was gone.

Iranian state media is reporting that Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon, which have continued today.

Retired colonel Pierre LeBlanc … says Canada faces an increasing number of risks to its security from Russia, China and even the U.S., but has failed to invest in strategic defence to deter adversaries.

As Canada lowers its tariffs and imports more electric vehicles from China, an upcoming report from New York-based labour rights researchers is making new allegations of forced labour practices at the world’s bestselling EV manufacturer, BYD.

A report from Amnesty International on human rights and the World Cup warned last week about the potential for protests if “the U.S. team is drawn to play in Canada in later rounds and ICE personnel are deployed to provide security.”

A years-long investigation into a special RCMP unit that polices protests against resource extraction in British Columbia is finished but can’t be finalized because the RCMP’s oversight body has been without a chairperson for more than a year.

Canadian Armed Forces members used their own personal social media accounts, computers and networks at home during the COVID-19 pandemic and gathered information about Canadians, violating intelligence-gathering rules, according to a newly released report.

Pete Pearson had three reasons for trying psilocybin, or “magic mushrooms,” for the first time at age 75.

High tolls at the Ambassador Bridge have driven record commercial traffic through the Blue Water Bridge, allowing the Sarnia, Ont., crossing to overtake Windsor as the busiest commercial crossing on the Canada-U.S. border for the first time in decades.

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a social media post this morning that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” as his threatened attacks on Iranian infrastructure loom ahead of an 8 p.m. ET deadline.

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a social media post this morning that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” as his threatened attacks on Iranian infrastructure loom ahead of an 8 p.m. ET deadline.

Vancouver-based Vizsla Silver has confirmed that nine of ‌its 10 workers abducted in Concordia, in the ​Mexican state of Sinaloa, ​in late January have been found dead.

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Canada don’t carry firearms, the agency said following questions about a potential ICE presence at upcoming FIFA World Cup games.

The Canadian company gets paid in the local country’s currency for the power from the solar farm, so the company has invested in a Chili pepper plantation beside the solar farm, and sells the chili peppers on the international market for a return on their investment in dollars. There is farming, and then there is farming.

Members of the Canadian Forces and Canadian Rangers are nearing the end of their epic trek across the North.

A group home worker in Winnipeg says she can’t stop thinking about an 18-year-old homicide victim she helped care for — and what more might have been done to protect her.

The former MP who spent more than a decade pushing to legalize single-event sports betting says he doesn’t regret it — but says its implementation is in some ways “sad” and “deplorable.”

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has announced recalls due to possible listeria contamination affecting products including salads, cheese and meal kits.

The Middle East war is impacting something most Canadians may not have expected: the cost of some mortgages.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/61931155

The B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned a lower-court ruling after finding the judge used an “arbitrary boundary” to determine a First Nation’s Aboriginal title over a swath of Nootka Island off western Vancouver Island.

The Liberal government’s second attempt at giving police and spies easier access to Canadians’ information includes what’s anticipated to be costly demands on a range of private businesses to to change how they manage their data.

The wind cuts across an empty stretch of land on the southern edge of London, Ont., where rows of small, cabin-like units sit far from bus routes, shops and the downtown core.

Health Canada has slapped new terms and conditions on all of a company’s paid plasma centres after multiple failed inspections where the regulator found “recurring, systemic deficiencies.”

As U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration moves to expand immigration detention capacity, Montreal-based GardaWorld is poised to profit.

Alberta separatists aren’t just enthused by the fact they have apparently surpassed the necessary 177,000 signatures to force their referendum onto ballots — they’re also celebrating when they reached the target.

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo, N.Y., street in February — five days after U.S. Border Patrol agents left him outside a Tim Hortons — has been ruled a homicide.

As her alter ego Marg Delahunty, comedian Mary Walsh spent years fearlessly ambushing Canadian politicians, skewering them with barbs and insults phrased as friendly advice.

A new study from southwestern Manitoba paints a stark picture of rural residents experiencing gender-based violence, where the nearest help might be hours away, and finding safety and anonymity often means leaving the community.

Sextortion cases involving both adults and youth have soared in Winnipeg, say police, who are using April, the nationally recognized Sexual Assault Awareness Month, to shed light on the crime.

The owner of Whistler Blackcomb is one of two companies named in a proposed antitrust class-action lawsuit in the United States that claims the pair are pushing anti-competitive schemes to coerce customers into buying more expensive multi-mountain “mega passes.”

Disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard has filed a lawsuit against a long list of defendants — including a woman who accused him of sexual assault and Manitoba’s former attorney general — alleging he was defamed and suffered as a result of what he describes as an abuse of process surrounding his prosecution in Winnipeg.

As the search continues for a baby girl who vanished months ago when her mother was killed, Alberta RCMP have released new, heartbreaking details on the case.

Government plans to create new national parks and marine reserves

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/61732951

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has approved a landmark First Nations child welfare deal between the federal government and First Nations in Ontario, partially ending a decades-long discrimination case.

The U.S. Army said on Monday it was investigating why military helicopters were operating near the house of singer Kid Rock, seemingly in support of the vocal backer of U.S. President Donald ‌Trump, and also near anti-Trump protests.

Mountains that normally see their peak snowpack in March are brown this year, thanks to a spring heat dome that baked the western U.S. for much of the second half of March. That’s raising alarm bells for the fire season, which is already ramping up.

A longtime federal public servant says she’s become “collateral damage” as her department clears its backlog of Phoenix payroll issues so it can test replacement software — and in doing so introduced an error to her file, refused to fix it and is now clawing back hundreds of dollars per paycheque.

The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) is set to reduce a $790 fee meant to make airlines pay for air passenger complaints — after behind-the-scenes pressure from the airline industry and former transport minister Anita Anand, internal documents reveal.

Health-care partners in Sioux Lookout, Ont., are celebrating the arrival of the town’s first-ever magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine.

Paul Andrew considered himself a small cog in the wheel of the Dene Nation in the 1970s, when he was also chief of Tulı́t’a.

Paul Andrew considered himself a small cog in the wheel of the Dene Nation in the 1970s, when he was also chief of Tulı́t’a.

Experts, market watchers and the authorities in Iran have accused the U.S. President of engaging in market manipulation surrounding the Iran war by timing military announcements around market opens and closes.

A Ukrainian refugee says Manitoba’s rejection of her requests to help her remove her deadname from official documents leaves her exposed to transphobia and infringes on her right to express her gender.

Rocky Neufeld had settled into his seat on a WestJet flight from Edmonton to Fort McMurray, Alta., in February 2025 when a gate agent boarded the plane with unexpected news.

Go DONATE plasma (or whole blood) at Canadian Blood Services. The tainted blood scandal of the early 80s had a couple of underlying causes, but at the core was that not enough Canadians were donating which led to two major problems.

Some health-care workers who either directly provide medical assistance in dying or work in that field say they are strongly opposed to Bill 18 — which, if passed, would prevent doctors or nurse practitioners from administering MAID to patients if they are unlikely to die within the next 12 months.

The awakening of Banff National Park’s most iconic grizzly heralds the return of bears to the Alberta landscape.

A 12-year-old boy, found unconscious and emaciated in a puddle before dying in hospital. Brothers, forced to sleep in a mesh tent, zip-tied to their clothes. Audio recordings and text messages from would-be adoptive parents, calling the kids “f–kface,” “loser” and “dumb brat.”

Nova Scotia-based Oxford Frozen Foods has been fined $10,000 for mislabelling its blueberries as Canadian at a time when more consumers are looking to buy local in grocery stores.

The massive Site C work camp near Fort St. John is getting a second life instead of heading to a landfill.

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Amid Prime Minister Mark Carney’s calls that the Canada-U.S. relationship is ruptured, Ottawa has committed $175 million to a mining project in northern Quebec whose major U.S. investor is closely linked to the Trump administration.