MPs will not hold a priority debate on how to release the names of politicians implicated in a foreign interference report released earlier this year. House Speaker Greg Fergus ruled Monday that the question of privilege raised by NDP MP Jenny Kwan in June didn’t rise to the level of a “prima facie” violation of MPs’ … Read more
MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions, including sexual harassment, and misrepresenting contestants’ odds at winning his new Amazon reality show’s $5-million US grand prize n a lawsuit filed Tuesday by five unnamed participants. The filing alleges that the multimillion-dollar company behind YouTube’s most popular channel failed to provide minimum wages, overtime pay, uninterrupted … Read more
TD Bank Group, which is mired in a money-laundering scandal in the U.S., said Raymond Chun will replace chief executive Bharat Masrani, who is retiring next year. Chun, who stepped into the role of head of Canadian personal banking last December, will become chief operating officer on Nov. 1 before taking over the top job … Read more
Business TD Bank was ordered by a U.S. regulator on Wednesday to pay nearly $28 million US for repeatedly sharing inaccurate, negative information about its customers with credit reporting agencies, potentially tarnishing customers’ credit score. Bank provided inaccurate information about customers to credit reporting agencies Thomson Reuters · Posted: Sep 11, 2024 10:42 AM EDT … Read more
Freight trains must start rolling again first thing Monday morning, the federal labour board ruled on Saturday as it ordered thousands of rail employees back to work to end a bitter contract dispute that shut down the country’s two major railways. The decision by the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) imposes binding arbitration on the … Read more
Two NASA astronauts who flew to the International Space Station in June aboard Boeing’s faulty Starliner capsule will need to return to Earth on a SpaceX vehicle early next year, NASA said on Saturday, deeming issues with Starliner’s propulsion system too risky to carry its first crew home. The agency’s decision, tapping Boeing’s top space … Read more
Half of all airline passenger disputes resolved by Canada’s transport regulator over a recent nine-month period have resulted in wins for passengers. According to CBC News analysis of newly available data, Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) officers ordered airlines to compensate or refund passengers in 50 per cent of the 9,740 cases they resolved between Sept. 30, 2023, … Read more
Canada’s premiers have sent a letter to the prime minister demanding a thorough review of the bail system after the homicide of a Surrey, B.C., woman. Tori Dunn, 30, was killed in her home on June 16. Her death prompted an outpouring of grief in the Metro Vancouver suburb. The man who has been arrested … Read more
A New Mexico judge dismissed involuntary manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin on Friday, agreeing with Baldwin’s lawyers that prosecutors and police withheld evidence on the source of the live round that killed Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021. Three days after Baldwin’s trial began, New Mexico district court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer ruled after hearing evidence … Read more
For rats in Ottawa’s Heron Park neighbourhood, Melanie Giroux has become something like the Grim Reaper. Giroux estimates she’s trapped and killed many hundreds of the rodents since her backyard became infested in 2021. That year alone, she bagged nearly 500 using black reusable traps. Despite that prolific record, Giroux said it hasn’t gotten any easier. “You … Read more
