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Missing Norwegian trekker was 1st to ever walk up to remote northern Manitoba lodge in polar bear country: CEO

Staff at a remote lodge in polar bear country on Manitoba’s Hudson Bay coastline were surprised and impressed early last week when a man with a backpack and a dog walked up to the front door for the first time ever. It was Steffen Skjottelvik, a Norwegian trekker, who went missing a …

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CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon quits amid possible settlement of Trump lawsuit

CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon said Monday that she is resigning after four years, the latest fallout at the network as its parent company considers settling a lawsuit with U.S. President Donald Trump over a 60 Minutes interview with his former political opponent, Kamala Harris. McMahon, who has led both the …

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Mangione pleads not guilty in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal charges of gunning down health insurance executive Brian Thompson, a day after prosecutors formally stated their intent to seek the death penalty. Mangione, 26, wore a tan jail-issued T-shirt as he was led into the packed lower Manhattan courtroom. He previously …

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Mangione to be considered for death penalty if convicted in CEO killing, prosecutors confirm

U.S. prosecutors formally told a court on Thursday that they plan to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing a UnitedHealth Group executive in New York last year. Mangione, 26, is due to appear in Manhattan federal court for an arraignment on Friday afternoon. He …

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Luigi Mangione indicted on U.S. federal murder charge in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO

Luigi Mangione was indicted Thursday on a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a required step as prosecutors work to make good on the Trump administration’s order to seek the death penalty for what it called a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.” Mangione’s indictment, …

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DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy, CEO resigns

23andMe on Sunday filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. after struggling with the fallout of a data breach and weak demand for its ancestry testing kits that featured in Oprah Winfrey’s annual list of favourite things just eight years ago. The biotech unicorn has seen a sharp fall in its …

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GameStop selling Canadian and French operations as CEO laments ‘wokeness and DEI’

GameStop Corp. is looking to sell its Canadian and French operations as it evaluates its international assets, the video game retailer said in a Tuesday news release. CEO Ryan Cohen posted to X earlier in the day that the two business arms were for sale, adding, “High taxes, Liberalism, Socialism, Progressivism, Wokeness …

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CBC’s new CEO says cutting government funding would ‘cripple’ English and French services

The new CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada says Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s promise to defund the public broadcaster could “cripple” both its English and French services and change the country’s news and entertainment media landscape for the worse. “It is to some extent an existential threat because it wouldn’t be the same …

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N.L. Hydro ‘taken to the cleaners’ on Churchill Falls MOU, says former CEO

A former head of Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro says the Crown corporation is being duped by Hydro-Québec, which he believes should pay tens of billions more for Churchill Falls power under a new memorandum of understanding unveiled in December. “They’ve taken us to the cleaners. Most Newfoundlanders are oblivious to it,” …

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