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A woman whose daughter is a former resident of a Nova Scotia safe house for survivors of sex trafficking is raising concerns about the involvement of a man at the organization who is charged with sex offences. Kevin MacLeod, 64, was charged in October with two counts of sexual assault and three …

At least 16 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli military in Gaza on Friday, according to local health authorities, as a U.S.- and Israeli-backed group said it had handed out aid in the enclave after earlier saying that its distribution sites were closed. The military had no immediate comment on the reports of …

U.S. border patrol officers have been setting up extra checkpoints near crossings between the U.S. and Metro Vancouver.  In an unusual scene, vehicles in the U.S. that are heading north to Canada through the Peace Arch and Pacific Highway crossings are sometimes being stopped by U.S. border patrol before they …

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre pitched First Nations leaders with what he called “practical, doable” solutions to create economic prosperity on Tuesday, but also reiterated his concerns with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ potential impact on resource development. “The Conservative Party supports the goals and aspirations of …

An African Nova Scotian RCMP staff sergeant who created anti-racism workshops for his employer says he was removed from his position after he raised concerns about intellectual property rights when the initiative he headed was going to be expanded. Craig Smith, a Mountie for nearly three decades, was described by the RCMP …

DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, has temporarily paused downloads of its chatbot apps in South Korea while it works with local authorities to address privacy concerns, South Korean officials said Monday. South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission said DeepSeek’s apps were removed from the local versions of Apple’s App …

Elon Musk’s comments to a far-right party in Germany have raised concerns about the billionaire’s escalating political interference in foreign countries. Speaking on a large screen in a video address to Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) supporters in Halle, Germany, last weekend, Musk said Germans had “too much focus on past guilt, …

Andrea Arnold knows a lot about what goes on in the Village of McBride, a community of about 600 people in British Columbia’s Robson Valley. As a reporter for the Rocky Mountain Goat newspaper, she keeps track of wildfires, local sports teams and pretty much everything happening in the picturesque mountain …

Most of the opposition parties on Parliament Hill are ditching the high-profile annual United Nations conference on climate change this year, citing human rights concerns in the host country Azerbaijan little more than a year after the mass exodus of nearly 120,000 ethnic Armenians from their homes in the once-disputed territory of …

More than a hundred international women’s soccer players are calling on FIFA to reconsider its sponsorship by Saudi Arabian oil company Saudi Aramco, which is majority state-owned, in an open letter to FIFA’s president. Calling it a “middle finger to women’s soccer,” the 106 players who signed the letter say …