The first 16 of the air force’s new F-35 fighters will be paid for out of the current federal budget, even though Canada isn’t expected to take delivery of the warplanes until 2026. Defence Minister Bill Blair pointed to the investment on Monday while defending the Liberal government’s military spending …
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Court greenlights shareholder class-action lawsuit against Bombardier
A Quebec judge is authorizing a class action from shareholders against Bombardier Inc. over claims that the plane maker presented a false picture of its financial situation in 2018, a turbulent year that saw its share price tank. Shareholders say former Bombardier execs didn’t make timely disclosures. A Quebec judge …
Read More »Facebook account takeovers are targeting people you know, turning friendship into fraud
A New Brunswick woman says her Facebook account was hijacked then used to swindle her friends out of thousands of dollars. All the while, Meta, Facebook’s parent company, did nothing to stop the crime in progress. A cybercrime expert says Canada needs regulations that force companies to respond quickly to …
Read More »Manitoba doctor accused of defrauding another physician by faking cancer, lying to college
A Thunder Bay doctor is on a mission to recoup over $160,000 she lent to a woman who was expelled from the University of Manitoba’s residency program after she fabricated evidence of a non-existent serious medical condition. Monica Kehar expelled from residency, not licensed to practise but still allowed to …
Read More »2 Guelph, Ont., courier drivers save man walking on Highway 407 in ‘incredible act of heroism’
Two Purolator truck drivers from Guelph, Ont., are being recognized by provincial police for “an incredible act of heroism” after they saved a man in distress on a highway. Melinda Olah and Manohar Rehal saw the man walking in traffic lanes on Highway 407 by the Highway 410 on ramp …
Read More »Hundreds of charges after OPP seize guns, drugs in Tyendinaga Township raid
Four people face more than 500 charges after a Saturday police raid at a home in Tyendinaga Township uncovered drugs and dozens of guns, according to police. Ontario Provincial Police say nearly 100 firearms, including both handguns and long guns, were found — some of which had been reported stolen …
Read More »Albertans think Danielle Smith is bad on affordability. Here’s why she isn’t paying for it
Poll suggests the premier isn’t getting blamed for housing crisis or higher cost of living, but health care and municipal relations have emerged as liabilities What is driving disapproval of UCP? Health care and city relations, poll shows. EDITOR’S NOTE: CBC News commissioned this public opinion research in April, leading …
Read More »A new report on poverty challenges both Liberals and Conservatives
The Food Banks Canada report usefully focuses political attention on a segment of the population that badly needs it. That presents an immediate challenge for the Liberal government — but the Conservatives are also challenged to explain exactly how they’d do things differently. The Conservatives are using the report to …
Read More »Premier says sex education group will be banned from giving school presentations
Premier Blaine Higgs says he will ban a Quebec-based sex education group from presenting at schools in New Brunswick after a presentation he believes was “clearly inappropriate.” The premier took to X, formerly Twitter, to express his displeasure with a presentation given at several New Brunswick high schools. “To say …
Read More »‘Language is identity’: First Nation legislator to make history at Ontario legislature
Decades after being punished in a residential school for speaking his own language, Sol Mamakwa will hold the powerful to account at Ontario’s legislature in the very same language past governments tried to bury. NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa to ask question in Anishininiimowin on Tuesday. Decades after being punished in …
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