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After hiring an alleged ISIS recruiter, Ontario’s largest electricity provider tried to bring in a much more intensive security screening process to protect its grid — but a labour arbitrator has found Hydro One’s national security background checks were “intrusive” and “unreasonable.” The decision comes as Canada’s intelligence agencies have increasingly …
Read More »He was hired to fight for Wales’s future generations. Does Canada need a job like that?
For the last three years, Derek Walker has been challenging the Welsh government to consider the following: How will your decisions affect people born in Wales as far as 50 years from now? As his country’s future generations commissioner, Walker’s tasked with advocating for the rights of Wales’s youngest and …
Read More »Former CTV, CBC reporter hired to run Manitoba’s U.S. trade office earns $387K a year
A former CTV and CBC reporter hired by Wab Kinew’s NDP government to lead Manitoba’s trade office in Washington, D.C., is earning a $387,000 annual salary, the premier’s office disclosed Wednesday. Former White House correspondent Richard Madan will earn more this year leading the D.C trade office than either Kinew …
Read More »Shooter was on student visa when Bishnoi gang hired him to threaten Punjabi musician AP Dhillon
A 25-year-old hired to “terrorize” Punjabi singer AP Dhillon at the behest of the Bishnoi gang came to Canada four years ago on a student visa, according to court records obtained by CBC News. But the judge who sentenced Abjeet Kingra last month for a violent September 2024 attack on …
Read More »Brazilian says he was deported after blowing whistle on Winnipegger who illegally hired foreign workers
A Brazilian man says he was misled into working illegally in Winnipeg based on the promise he would eventually get a work permit. Ighor Santos, 27, says he was ordered to leave the country after blowing the whistle on the man who recruited him and other foreign nationals for a construction job in the city’s …
Read More »Investigator hired to look into group sexual assault allegations involving 2003 World Junior players
Warning: This story contains sexually graphic details that may be disturbing to readers Hockey Canada is covering the cost of a third-party investigator hired to look into allegations that a group of men on the 2003 World Junior hockey team sexually assaulted a woman in Halifax during a tournament nearly …
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