Lion Electric will not respect warranties on school buses sold in United States

Lion electric bus

MONTREAL — Quebec vehicle-maker Lion Electric will no longer honour warranties on school buses and trucks sold in the United States, leaving clients south of the border in the lurch.

After seeking protection from its creditors in December, the struggling manufacturer was acquired by a group of Quebec investors in May with a plan to focus exclusively on electric school buses assembled and sold in the province. The company has retained its manufacturing plant in St-Jérôme, Que.

Earlier this month, the court-appointed monitor overseeing Lion’s restructuring sent a letter to U.S. clients informing them that their warranties and purchase orders have been voided.

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Taxpayers Federation calls for cuts to Sask arts sponsorships, funds ‘Baby Back B*tch’ music video

Art in Saskatchewan

Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is demanding the Saskatchewan government eliminate what it calls wasteful spending at SK Arts, citing controversial grants that include funding for profanity-titled projects and personal living expenses.

CTF Prairie Director Gage Haubrich criticized the annual $7 million in provincial funding allocated to SK Arts.

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Flight attendant accuses Delta of using ‘inexperienced’ pilot on plane that crashed at Pearson airport: lawsuit

Landing technique weak

A flight attendant who was a passenger on board the Delta Air Lines plane that crashed on the tarmac at Toronto Pearson International Airport earlier this year is now suing the airline, alleging it demonstrated a “reckless disregard for passenger safety” by assigning an “inexperienced pilot” to the flight.

Vanessa Miles, who works as a flight attendant for Delta, is seeking US$75 million in damages, according to a complaint filed in U.S. federal court.

None of the allegations have been proven in court and Delta Air Lines has not yet responded to CP24’s request for comment.

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‘Like a sci-fi movie’: US baby born from 30-year-old frozen embryo breaks record

A baby boy has been born to an Ohio couple from an embryo that was frozen for more than 30 years, reportedly setting a new world record.

Lindsey, 35, and Tim Pierce, 34, welcomed their son, Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, on Saturday. Ms Pierce told MIT Technology Review her family thought “it’s like something from a sci-fi movie”.

It is believed to be longest that an embryo has been frozen before resulting in a successful live birth. The previous record-holder was a pair of twins who were born in 2022 from embryos frozen in 1992.


I wonder … Radioactive wasp nest found at old US nuclear weapons site

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France under pressure to stop $9.7m of USAID contraceptives being destroyed

The French government has said it is closely monitoring a US plan to destroy millions of dollars of contraceptives stocked in Europe after outrage from French feminists, rights groups and family planning organisations at what they called a wasteful attack on women’s rights.

The Guardian reported this month that Donald Trump’s administration planned to destroy $9.7m of contraceptives that are believed to be in a warehouse in Belgium but may be moved to France for incineration. They are mostly long-acting contraceptives such as IUDs and birth control implants, which had been bought under public health programmes run by the US Agency for International Development and were probably intended for women in Africa.

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The Rotherham scandal is even worse than we imagined

‘We’re forgotten children. We’re dirty little secrets. That’s how they look at us.’ Shockingly, the brave woman who uttered these words is not referring to the mainly Pakistani-heritage men who raped her and other young girls in Rotherham, South Yorkshire over the course of several decades. She is talking about her town’s police officers. Five women have this week gone public with their allegations that the very people who should have been protecting vulnerable girls and arresting their abusers were not only complicit in silencing victims and appeasing perpetrators – they raped, threatened and violently attacked grooming-gang victims, too.

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Hundreds to embark on TTC’s Underground Freedom Train overnight to mark Emancipation Day

Won’t somebody think of the homeless!

Itah Sadu wants to get one thing straight: The annual Emancipation Day Underground Freedom Train Ride is not an event — “it’s an experience,” she says.

Sadu, managing director of Blackhurst Cultural Centre, is encouraging Canadians of all ages and ethnicities to join her and hundreds of others on a free TTC subway ride Thursday night to mark the day slavery was abolished in the British Empire 191 years ago.

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Mass circumcision ceremony leaves 39 boys dead and dozens more mutilated after botched procedures during tribal ‘initiation’ in South Africa

The 2025 tribal ‘initiation ceremony’ where teenage males in South Africa undergo agonising circumcision has ended – with 39 deaths and dozens more boys mutilated.

Despite a target being set by the Government of zero fatalities this year, the figure is still a huge drop on last year where 93 died, while a total of 361 boys have died in the last five years.

Gruesome complications in 2024 led to 11 penis amputations after unskilled traditional ‘surgeons’ used old spears and razor blades to perform the eye-watering rituals.

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