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A Canadian visa program set up to fast track educated immigrants from Hong Kong appears to have been systematically abused by applicants accused of using ghostwriters or plagiarism to obtain academic credentials. CBC News has found at least seven Federal Court decisions involving applicants rejected for misrepresentation, after immigration officers grilled them …

The heavily armed men surrounded the Sun Dancers in the pre-dawn darkness.  At 4 a.m. on Aug. 18, 1995, with camouflage, painted faces, M-16 rifles and snipers, the group crept through the foliage towards an armed First Nations encampment at Gustafsen Lake in the B.C. Interior, about 270 kilometres northeast …

The Trump administration on Monday released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination. The digital document dump includes more than 240,000 pages of records that had been under …

Barcelona recorded its hottest month of June since records started more than a century ago, Spain’s national weather service said on Tuesday as Europe remained in the grip of the first major heat wave this summer. The Fabra Observatory reported an average temperature of 26 C, breaking records since 1914. …

Jamie Jelinski feels a bit like David — and the Toronto police are his Goliath.  The trouble is, he’s worried that this time Goliath might win. Jelinski filed a freedom of information (FOI) request to Toronto police in June 2020 for records concerning the facial recognition technology Clearview AI after …

WARNING: This story contains details of sexual abuse and ​​​intimate partner violence. British Columbia’s privacy watchdog has sided with a woman suing the provincial government and its victim assistance program over an alleged breach of her sensitive files. The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has ordered B.C.’s Ministry of …

After the Chaudhari family landed in Montreal on a flight from Winnipeg they walked out the airport doors to a waiting grey minivan allegedly driven by a key player in a human smuggling network that would eventually lead the four Indian nationals to their deaths,  according to court records obtained …

Homicides in Detroit have dropped to levels not seen since before the mid-1960s, according to preliminary year-end statistics released by the Michigan border city. The city is part of a national trend of declining rates of overall violent crime across the U.S. Detroit ended 2024 with about 203 homicides — …

As the City of Brampton works to address unsafe and illegal housing, CBC Toronto has learned that a local councillor co-owns a property with an unregistered basement apartment, contravening municipal bylaws.  Coun. Gurpartap Singh Toor, who sits on both Brampton city council and Peel regional council, denies owning the house on …

Losses in the energy sector led Canada’s main stock index lower on Friday, while U.S. stock markets rose to new records. Both Canada and the U.S. saw fresh jobs data today that came in weaker than expected, solidifying bets on both sides of the border for upcoming interest rate cuts. …