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Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Meta CEO and billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is set to be questioned for the first …
Read More »Freeland called back to testify on B.C. Ferries’ deal with Chinese shipyard
Former transport minister Chrystia Freeland is being called back to a committee to testify after emails suggested the ministry was given weeks of notice that B.C. Ferries was buying four new vessels from a Chinese shipyard. The House of Commons transport committee unanimously passed the motion to have Freeland testify …
Read More »RCMP chief, CSIS director to testify about claims that India orchestrated crimes in Canada
Some of Canada’s top security and intelligence officials are set to testify this morning about an alleged campaign to intimidate or kill Canadians — a scheme the head of the RCMP says can be traced back to the highest levels of the Indian government. “We do have strong evidence — not …
Read More »Ottawa police official to testify at ‘Freedom Convoy’ trial
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 18, 2023 7:35 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size A police liaison officer who communicated directly with “Freedom Convoy” protesters during the winter 2022 demonstrations is expected to testify Wednesday in the criminal trial of two of its organizers. Const. …
Read More »London, Ont., attack trial: accused to testify today as defence opens its case
Warning: Readers may find the contents of this story disturbing. The Ontario man accused of killing four members of a Muslim family in an alleged act of terrorism will testify in his own defence. Defence lawyer Christopher Hicks made the announcement after delivering his opening statement to the jury Thursday morning. …
Read More »Google offers 2 top executives to testify at parliamentary committee
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 18, 2023 9:56 am Updated March 18, 2023 9:57 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size Google says it will volunteer some of its top executives to testify at a parliamentary committee. In a statement, the company says it aims to …
Read More »Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante to testify in racial profiling class action
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante is expected to testify Wednesday in a class-action lawsuit that claims the city hasn’t acted to combat systemic racial profiling by its police officers. The lawsuit is led by the Black Coalition of Quebec and Alexandre Lamontagne, a Black man who alleges he was brutally arrested …
Read More »2 women who signed NDAs unable to testify in UPEI review into sexual harassment: lawyer
Two women who came forward in 2012 with allegations of sexual harassment at the University of Prince Edward Island have been unable to provide testimony in an ongoing review because they signed non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), according to the lawyer representing them. That review, by the Toronto-based law firm Rubin Thomlinson, …
Read More »Convoy leaders, Tamara Lich, set to testify at Emergencies Act inquiry
Three organizers of the “Freedom Convoy” protests in Ottawa are to appear today at the public inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act. Benjamin Dichter, James Bauder and Tamara Lich will testify at the Public Order Emergency Commission, which is examining the use of the emergency powers …
Read More »PM Trudeau could face subpoena to testify at residential school reparations trial
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could face a subpoena to testify as a witness during a trial scheduled to begin this month for a class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the cultural devastation wreaked by residential schools, court records show. Lawyers representing 325 First Nations — more than half of all recognized First …
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