Home / Tag Archives: Times

Tag Archives: Times

U.S. rights group sues New York Times, claiming discrimination against a white man

Listen to this article Estimated 5 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. A U.S. federal civil rights agency filed a discrimination lawsuit on Tuesday against the New York …

Read More »

Montreal is mentioned in the Epstein files hundreds of times. Here’s what we know

Located just a short flight away from one of his vacation homes in New York City, Montreal was often on the late American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s radar. Though it’s unclear whether Epstein visited Quebec after he was convicted in 2008 for soliciting sex from a minor, among other prostitution …

Read More »

In times of drought, why are residential consumers ‘targeted’ with conservation measures?

As the worst drought in decades dragged on through the summer of 2025, some Nova Scotians who use municipal water supplies were asked and then ordered to stop watering lawns, washing cars and filling pools in the name of easing the strain on dwindling water sources. The conservation measures were …

Read More »

Time’s almost up to claim a slice of the bread price-fixing settlement. But how safe is your data?

Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. There are only a few days left for Canadians to get their slice of a $500-million settlement in a class-action lawsuit related to the industry-wide price fixing …

Read More »

Federal refugee employment program faces ‘extremely long, ballooning wait times’

Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Instead of waiting months, a federal program is now taking years to process the applications of refugees who are living overseas and have a job waiting for …

Read More »

‘It happens all too frequently,’ says N.S. 911 dispatchers’ union of delayed response times

The union representing 911 dispatchers in Nova Scotia says problems getting ambulances to emergency calls — such as the February incident in Halifax in which urgent calls from police failed to result in paramedics’ arrival for 40 minutes — happen all too frequently. Inadequate staffing and training, as well as …

Read More »

New York Times, AP, Reuters and Newsmax among news organizations fighting new press rules

News organizations including the New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative Newsmax television network said Monday they will not sign a U.S. Defence Department document about its new press rules, making it likely the Trump administration will evict their reporters from the Pentagon. Those outlets say the policy …

Read More »

Trump launches $15B US defamation lawsuit against The New York Times

U.S. President Donald Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and four of its journalists on Monday, according to court documents. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Florida names several articles and one book written by two of the publication’s journalists and published …

Read More »

Deadly opioid 40 times more powerful than fentanyl smuggled into Canada inside PlayStations, basketballs

The video call is grainy, but it’s crystal clear what the person on the phone is trying to sell: illicit drugs, packaged and ready to be shipped to Canada.  The seller, who goes by the name Kim, says he sells cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA and nitazenes, a powerful class of synthetic …

Read More »

Old, inactive oil and gas wells emitting almost 7 times more methane than official estimates

Inactive and abandoned oil and gas wells in Canada are a much bigger climate problem than previously thought, emitting almost seven times more methane than the official estimates, according to a new study from researchers at McGill University. The potent greenhouse gas is responsible for a third of all global …

Read More »