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'No basis' to find hockey player feigning lack of memory in sex assault trial: judge
An Ontario judge has ruled there is no basis to find that a former member of Canada’s world junior hockey team was being ...
Crown argues hockey player faking memory loss in testifying at ex-teammates' trial
Michael McLeod, Dillon Dube, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart and Callan Foote have pleaded not guilty to sexual assault. McLeod ...
City of Winnipeg to remove all parking paystations by August 31
The City of Winnipeg will begin removing all City-owned parking paystations in paid on-street areas and City-operated surface ...
Top Manitoba Conservatives Stefanson, Cullen, and Wharton breached ethics laws
Manitoba’s former premier Heather Stefanson and two of her cabinet ministers broke conflict-of-interest laws when they tried to fast-track approval for a controversial silica sand mining project after ...
Aging elephants moved from Los Angeles to Tulsa Zoo, but advocates say they should be at a sanctuary
A move to a sanctuary was considered, but the Tulsa Zoo was the top recommendation based on the standards of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Elephant Species Survival Plan, which considers ...
In lawsuit over teen's death, judge rejects arguments that AI chatbots have free speech rights
The suit was filed by a mother from Florida, Megan Garcia, who alleges that her 14-year-old son Sewell Setzer III fell victim to a Character.AI chatbot that pulled him into what she described as an ...
OpenAI recruits legendary iPhone designer Jony Ive to work on AI hardware in $6.5B deal
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI has recruited Jony Ive, the designer behind Apple’s iPhone, to lead a new hardware project for the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT. OpenAI said it is ...
Oregon lawmakers OK changes to landmark bottle redemption law amid concerns over homelessness, drugs
Oregon lawmakers approved changes to the state’s landmark bottle redemption law on Wednesday, allowing redemption sites that some say have become magnets for drugs and homelessness to refuse returns ...
B.C. municipalities join First Nations in criticism of tariff bills
VICTORIA — Municipal leaders from across British Columbia have joined First Nations to ask the provincial government to withdraw or delay proposed legislation to fast-track major projects in response ...
Arrest warrant issued for Alberta woman released from jail with fake documents
The Alberta Crown Prosecution Service confirmed Wednesday that Hardy was released from custody after staff at the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre, northeast of Edmonton, were shown documents ...
Toronto's unusually low late May temperatures not seen since 1967: meteorologist
TORONTO — Toronto is experiencing a stretch of unusually low temperatures that haven’t been seen in late May in decades. Environment Canada is forecasting a daytime high of 10 C on Thursday — just a ...
Fire at historic Black church in Memphis was intentionally set, investigators say
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers’ strike, which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to ...