The federal government is allocating up to $145 million for security during the upcoming World Cup.
Canada is co-hosting with the United States and Mexico, with thirteen matches scheduled to take place in Toronto and Vancouver this June and July.
The government said in a new release the funding is in response to “specific operational needs identified by the host provinces and cities.”
Ontario’s recent call to legalize pepper spray highlights a contradiction. Canadian self-defence law allows people to use force to defend themselves. But other laws make it a crime, or legally precarious, to possess the tools that would let them do so effectively.
The Bank of Canada kept its key interest rate at 2.25 per cent as expected on Wednesday and said any changes in the rate could be small if its projections for the economy held true.
Governor Tiff Macklem said the key rate is probably at about the right level if the economy follows the central bank’s projections, though he didn’t rule out future adjustments depending on how the risks play out.
“If the economy evolves broadly in line with the base case, changes in the policy rate can be expected to be small,” he said.
A Yellowknife judge has insisted a man who claimed to be Caucasian get a report meant for Indigenous offenders before he sentences him for breaking into a hotel.
Jeremy Kuneyuna — who already has 90 convictions — appeared in the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories recently to be sentenced for breaking into a hotel.
Police in Vancouver rejected a request from Fifa to provide president Gianni Infantino with a level-four motorcade escort, the sort of security arrangements usually reserved for heads of state and figures like the Pope.
Fifa’s annual congress takes place in Vancouver this week and Global BC reported football’s governing body asked for its president to be given a full motorcade escort through the city, allowing his convoy to go through downtown traffic lights while roads are blocked off.
The Royal Canadian Mint says it has initiated a full review in response to allegations some of its gold comes from a region of Colombia where drug cartels control mines.
Mint spokesperson Deneen Perrin says as soon as the mint learned of the allegations raised by the New York Times newspaper, it “immediately and fully” suspended the refining of any material from the supply chain in question.
Last Tuesday evening at a packed meeting, the municipal council of Prince Edward County missed an opportunity to do the right thing: Reinstall their statue of Sir John A. Macdonald in the picturesque town of Picton.
By a vote of 8-6, the councillors rejected the start of a consultative process to restore the statue of Macdonald that was removed from Main Street in June 2021 amid repeated vandalism.
In early 2022, when I was president-elect of the CMA, I had a phone conversation with Tom, one of my oldest friends, about the trucker protests in Ottawa. At the time, I was focused on what patients and colleagues were living through. He was focused on the threat to rights and freedoms. The conversation became existential. Accusations were made. He hung up. We did not speak properly again for years.
Rogers Communications Inc. is offering voluntary departure packages to 50 per cent of its employees, the largest round of buyout offers in the sector in recent years as telecom revenue growth has slowed across the industry and as companies look to shed costs.
On Monday, Rogers said that about half of its 25,000 employees across numerous business divisions will be offered packages, but did not say whether it had a reduction target.
No indication yet of what role AI may have played in the decision.
When I closed my Rogers account they forced me to speak with a member of their ‘Customer Loyalty” team who as I found out was located in the Philippines.
One by one, the pins have been knocked out from under West Vancouver businessman Fred Sharp. He was ordered to pay the equivalent of more than $70 million to the U.S. government and $2 million to Quebec’s securities regulator for his role in schemes to manipulate share prices. He’s banned from stock markets in Canada. His bank and brokerage accounts were frozen and ordered to be seized. Known as the Canadian mastermind in the Panama Papers, Sharp has lost case after case in court.
But Sharp still has his freedom: Despite a push within the Canada Revenue Agency years ago to criminally investigate him, he’s never been charged in Canada. And while the U.S. Justice Department indicted him two years ago for securities fraud and conspiracy, there is no public evidence of an effort to extradite him.
In the shadowy global gold industry, where terrorists, drug dealers and dictators launder illegally mined gold into the mainstream market, one major supplier says buyers can count on its product to be clean and ethically sourced.
The Royal Canadian Mint says it can trace all of its gold back to its origins, with cutting-edge technologies including a Bitcoin-like software it calls Bullion Genesis. The Mint, which is backed by the Canadian government, assures buyers that it does not refine gold linked to “illegitimate nonstate armed groups.”
“It’s all North American, predominantly Canada,” the Mint’s refining chief, Rob Sargent, said in an interview.
But what the Canadians call North American includes gold from a swirl of faraway sources — including Colombian mines controlled by the Clan del Golfo drug cartel.
We sometimes forget that the bad economic policy choices of U.S. politicians often pale in comparison to those of their counterparts in other countries. The result is that, despite the government’s best efforts, Americans are growing more prosperous at a faster rate than their peers elsewhere. The divergence is happening so rapidly, the U.K.’s Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) recently pointed out, that Britons (among others) lose track of how quickly they’re falling behind Americans’ wealth and living standards. A return to free-market principles could help to once again even the score.
You have to wonder what the Elbow people were voting for.
York Regional Police are investigating a suspected hate crime that took place in Vaughan on Saturday.
According to investigators, an unknown man attempted to force his way into a synagogue near Bathurst Street and Steeles Avenue just after 9:30 a.m.
What counts as “foreign interference?”
In January, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in an interview that “Alberta has a wealth of natural resources, but they won’t let them build a pipeline to the Pacific,” in this case, “they” being the federal government.
Referring to Alberta, he went on to say, “I think we should let them come down into the US, and Alberta is a natural partner for the US. They have great resources. The Albertans are very independent people.”
