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At a trucking school in New Jersey, students are manoeuvring 18-wheelers around traffic cones. Other future drivers look under hoods to perform safety checks, narrating as they examine steering hoses for cracks and leaks. An instructor glides between speaking Spanish and English as he teaches Manuel Castillo, a native Spanish …
Read More »Trump can keep National Guard in L.A. through legal challenges, appeals court rules
A U.S. appeals court let Donald Trump retain control on Thursday of California’s National Guard while the state’s Democratic governor proceeds with a lawsuit challenging the Republican president’s use of the troops to quell protests in Los Angeles. Trump’s decision to send troops into Los Angeles prompted a national debate …
Read More »Competition watchdog calls for relaxed foreign ownership rules in airline industry report
The Competition Bureau is calling for changes to improve the competitive landscape in Canada’s airline industry, including loosening rules that currently limit foreign ownership of Canadian airlines. The watchdog, in a 117-page market study published Thursday, reiterated that Canada’s airline industry is highly concentrated with two major carriers — Air Canada and WestJet — …
Read More »Robert Miller, billionaire accused of sex crimes, unfit to stand trial, judge rules
Robert Miller, the Montreal billionaire accused of multiple sex crimes, is too sick to stand trial, Quebec Superior Court Justice Lyne Décarie ruled Tuesday. The Crown and Miller’s defence team had both recommended a stay of proceedings due to his deteriorating health. A Parkinson’s disease expert, Dr. Pierre Blanchet, had previously testified …
Read More »Google has illegal monopoly in online ad tech, U.S. judge rules
Alphabet’s Google illegally dominated two markets for online advertising technology, a federal judge said on Thursday, dealing another blow to the tech titan in an antitrust case brought by the U.S. government. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Va., ruled that Google unlawfully monopolized markets for publisher ad servers …
Read More »British Supreme Court unanimously rules legal definition of a ‘woman’ excludes trans women’s identities
The United Kingdom’s top court on Wednesday upheld an appeal by the campaign group For Women Scotland on whether transgender women are legally women under equality legislation, but it said trans people would not be disadvantaged by its landmark decision. The unanimous judgment from five Supreme Court justices related to …
Read More »China slaps 34% retaliatory tariff on the U.S., says Trump’s levy ‘seriously violates’ world trade rules
China announced Friday that it will impose a 34 per cent tariff on imports of all U.S. products beginning April 10, part of a flurry of retaliatory measures following U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” slate of double-digit tariffs. The new tariff matches the rate of the U.S. “reciprocal” tariff …
Read More »Woman accused of killing 3 people in Ontario unfit to stand trial, court rules
A Toronto court has ruled that a woman accused of killing three people in three Ontario cities last year is unfit to stand trial at this time and must undergo psychiatric treatment. Sabrina Kauldhar, 30, was arrested in October and charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts …
Read More »Columbia University student can’t be detained by immigration officials for now, judge rules
A Korean American Columbia University student, who is a legal permanent U.S. resident and has participated in pro-Palestinian protests, cannot be detained by federal immigration officials for now as she fights the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump over attempts to deport her, a judge ruled on Tuesday. Yunseo Chung, 21, …
Read More »Canadians exempted from fingerprinting for U.S. travel under new Homeland Security rules
Canadian travellers to the U.S. will be exempt from new fingerprinting requirements imposed on all other foreign nationals, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The draft rule, which stems from a Jan. 20 executive order, is expected to be put in force April 11. All foreign nationals who plan to stay …
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