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Environmental group Greenpeace must pay more than $660 million US in damages for defamation and other claims brought by a pipeline company in connection with protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline’s construction in North Dakota, a jury found Wednesday. Dallas-based Energy Transfer and subsidiary Dakota Access had accused Netherlands-based Greenpeace …
Read More »Israeli PM Netanyahu says Hamas will pay for not returning Shiri Bibas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israel would make Hamas pay for failing to release the body of hostage Shiri Bibas as agreed. “We will act with determination to bring Shiri home along with all our hostages — both living and dead — and ensure Hamas pays the full price …
Read More »Ex-Spanish soccer boss Luis Rubiales to pay fine over kissing player without consent
Spain’s High Court said on Thursday it had found former soccer federation boss Luis Rubiales guilty of sexual assault for kissing player Jenni Hermoso without her consent, and set a fine of over 10,000 euros, but acquitted him of coercion. Prosecutors had sought a prison sentence for Rubiales in a …
Read More »A Halifax business owner was defrauded. Then she had to pay a penalty for it
In October, Halifax small business owner Laura MacNutt made a few big sales on her e-commerce store, totalling thousands of dollars of merchandise. The customers picked up the items in person at KingsPIER Vintage, her luxury vintage clothing store. It wasn’t until weeks later that she found out the transactions were fraudulent. She received an email …
Read More »Trump wants states to pay more after disasters like L.A. wildfires. Here’s how FEMA works now
U.S. President Donald Trump headed to hurricane-battered western North Carolina and wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles on Friday, after having showered disdain on California leaders for water policies that he falsely claimed worsened the recent blazes. Trump told Fox News earlier in the week he was considering overhauling the Federal Emergency Management …
Read More »The CEO-to-worker pay gap is still enormous — but a new report says it narrowed slightly in 2023
Canada’s top-paid CEOs made over 200 times more than the average worker in 2023, says a new report — yet the gap between executives and employees narrowed slightly that year, as workers’ wages rose and corporate profits declined during the comedown from high inflation. The annual report, released by the progressive think-tank …
Read More »This boy hurt in collision didn’t have an Indian status card, so Ottawa wouldn’t pay for medical evacuation
The family of a seven-year-old boy from Deer Lake First Nation who was denied medical transportation coverage because he didn’t yet have an Indian status card is calling for changes to Ottawa’s Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) program. Jordan Harper was seriously injured, and his grandmother died, in January in a head-on collision with another …
Read More »A Manitoban is losing his ability to move his muscles. A drug might prevent that, but the province won’t pay
The first thing Jeremy Bray does every morning is check whether he can still move his left thumb. He wakes up daily with the fear he may have lost the only way he has to operate his wheelchair, maintain a job and live independently. Bray has spinal muscular atrophy, a rare degenerative …
Read More »Everyone agrees Canada should spend more on defence. How do we pay for it?
If there’s one thing Canada’s premiers have always agreed on, it’s that the federal government needs to respect provincial jurisdiction. If there’s a second thing they now agree on, it’s that (notwithstanding their belief that governments should mind their own business) the federal government should spend substantially more on national defence — not least because …
Read More »Tobacco giants would pay out $32.5B to provinces, smokers in ‘historic’ proposed deal
Three tobacco giants are proposing to pay close to $25 billion to provinces and territories and more than $4 billion to tens of thousands of Quebec smokers and their loved ones as part of a corporate restructuring process triggered by a long-running legal battle. A proposed plan of arrangement was …
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