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As Canada braces for U.S. President Donald Trump to impose steep tariffs on Canadian goods, Housing Minister Nathaniel Erskine-Smith says the cost of homebuilding is going to go up — despite an urgent need for more housing stock. “I’m alive…
U.S. President Donald Trump fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as the administration makes sweeping changes to the top military ranks.…
The Vatican said on Saturday that Pope Francis’s health had deteriorated over the past 24 hours and for the first time described his condition as “critical,” reporting he had needed supplemental oxygen and blood transfusions. The Pope was admitted to…
The collapse of a food court roof at a shopping mall in northwestern Peru killed six people and left at least 78 others injured, the country’s defence minister said Saturday. The heavy iron roof at the Real Plaza Trujillo shopping…
Elon Musk, the billionaire head of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, threatened on Saturday to fire any federal worker who fails to explain what work they have accomplished during the previous week. The threat, issued in a post…
Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data. Advanced Data Protection (ADP) means only account holders can view items such as…
For years, Meta employees have internally discussed using copyrighted works obtained through legally questionable means to train the company’s AI models, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday. The documents were submitted by plaintiffs in the case Kadrey v. Meta,…
Social media giants Meta and X approved ads targeting users in Germany with violent anti-Muslim and anti-Jew hate speech in the run-up to the country’s federal elections, according to new research from Eko, a corporate responsibility nonprofit campaign group. The…
You might suspect that a one-line bill about Bigfoot that bears the number “666” is a joke, but AB-666 is apparently a serious offering from California Assemblymember Chris Rogers. Rogers represents a California district known for its Bigfoot sightings (or…
Ontario’s top bureaucrat is admonishing PC Leader Doug Ford and his staff for allegedly trying to use his Washington D.C. trip last week to the party’s advantage in the election campaign. Ford went to Washington on a two-day anti-tariff push,…
