@canada Residents of #canada, would you be in favour of your province or territory abolishing annual clock changes and moving to a consistent, year round time?

If yes, what would you prefer: year round daylight savings time (an extra hour of sunlight in the evening) or standard time (an extra hour of sunlight in the morning)?

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre issued a joint statement during NATO's Exercise Cold Response in Bardufoss, Norway.

The leaders argued that easing restrictions undermines Western efforts to pressure Russia into negotiations and to end the war in Ukraine.

"Canada's position is to maintain sanctions on Russia … including on the shadow fleet, which is moving this oil," Carney said at a press conference. Threats to European security

The Canadian prime minister emphasized that cooperation between Russia and Iran poses a direct threat to European security. He added that such interactions come at a high cost to the Ukrainian people, meaning pressure on Russia must only increase.

Carney noted that Canada, together with European partners, will continue acting within the Coalition of the Willing to counter Russian energy revenues that finance the war.

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We share some common security concerns,' Canadian prime minister says.

The leaders of five Nordic countries — plus Canada — have gathered in Oslo for a mini-summit to discuss strengthening defence capabilities in the face of higher international tensions, including recent threats by the Trump administration to take over Greenland.

The meeting Sunday is the last stop in Norway for Prime Minister Mark Carney, who arrived early Friday to witness a major NATO military exercise in the northern part of the country involving more than 30,000 troops, sailors and aircrew.

"We sometimes call Canada an honorary Nordic" country, said Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, who added that when he told the prime ministers of Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland that Carney would be in Oslo this weekend, they all jumped at the chance to talk collective security with him.

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The report lays out five stark scenarios of potential moves that Russian President Vladimir Putin could make against the Nordic and Baltic countries, if Moscow ever achieves a victory in its long-running war to subjugate Ukraine.

Three of the five scenarios involve Russian forces seizing key islands off Norway, Finland and Sweden in so-called low risk operations in order to test NATO's resolve.

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When his trial began in February, Frank Stronach faced 12 counts related to seven female complainants whose allegations included sexual assault and the historical charges of rape and attempted rape.

Now, with all the evidence heard and closing submissions set for the end of the month, those charges have been whittled down to seven — related to four of the initial seven complainants.

That the Crown has decided to drop five charges, and discard the testimony of three complainants, has raised some questions about the initial strength of some of their cases and whether enough was done beforehand to anticipate potential problems.

"Obviously, there are some difficulties with many of these witnesses, which I think makes this case look fairly weak at this point," Weisberg said. "Some of which had to have been foreseen in some way."

Just weeks ago, Dillon Nolan was envisioning a new chapter of his life in Canada.

He married his partner, Dylan Fox, on Valentine’s Day and was, by all accounts, excelling at his job as a social worker specializing in youth mental health at B.C. Children’s Hospital.

A couple of weeks later, he was arrested and handcuffed outside a music venue in Vancouver's Gastown where he was about to perform, detained in an immigration holding centre and ordered to leave the country.

It all comes down to two key pieces of correspondence from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) that Nolan says he never received.

An Al-Quds Day rally took to the streets near the U.S. consulate in Toronto Saturday, after an Ontario Superior Court justice ruled that the demonstration could continue as planned.

Attendee Stephen Ellis, who is also a lawyer for rally organizers, said everyone is "very happy" that the injunction was dismissed, but the morning was filled with "fear-mongering" and "desperation."

"We were confident it wasn't going to succeed. It's absurd that they would abrogate our rights," he said. "The attempt for the injunction was a politically motivated attack on our rights and so we were happy to vindicate those rights today."

The justice's decision comes after two Toronto city councillors and Ontario Premier Doug Ford called for an injunction to prevent the rally from happening.

In a post to social media Friday, Ford asked the attorney general to act and called the demonstration a "breeding ground for hate and antisemitism."

A woman (alive) was on the boat previously, but she was removed by a passing ship. The man's body had several stab wounds. Police are investigating.

The Ontario government says it will end funding for at least three provincially funded drug consumption sites, including two in Toronto, in a move that is drawing concern from advocates.

In letters obtained by CBC Toronto on Friday, the Ontario Ministry of Health told the Fred Victor Centre and South Riverdale Community Health Centre in Toronto that provincial funding for the consumption and treatment services sites that they operate will end in 90 days, as of June 13, 2026.

The Carepoint Consumption and Treatment Service in London, Ont., also received notice Friday.

At a news conference late Friday, harm reduction advocates said sites in Peterborough, Kingston, St. Catharines and two in Ottawa received letters from the province as well telling them that they will be shut down.

$76M allocated in 2023 to clear complaints backlog, but it has more than doubled since

To ensure wines were falsely labelled “product of Israel,” the Israeli Ministry of Justice secretly hired a local firm to help its lobbying of the Canadian government

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/60717930

Canadian business process outsourcing giant Telus Digital has confirmed it suffered a security incident after threat actors claimed to have stolen nearly 1 petabyte of data from the company in a multi-month breach.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/61737959

The utter audacity of this.

The exemptions would be retroactive, meaning all existing, outstanding requests for information from these offices would be scrapped, including Mr. Ford’s phone logs.

Stats Can report is much better: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/260313/dq260313a-eng.htm

The scene of Canada’s iconic polar bears scrounging among chip bags and milk jugs stands in stark contrast to the majestic images of bears traversing the sub-Arctic shores that feature in global tourism campaigns for the Hudson Bay region. It’s a sore point for the town of Churchill, Manitoba. For nearly two years now, the “Polar Bear Capital of the World” that welcomes international photographers and tourists as “one of the best places” to see wild polar bears has been the site of a markedly ugly scene: bears scrounging for human garbage.

In April 2024, Churchill’s waste management facility—an old military building known as L5—burned to the ground. Spontaneous combustion in the gaseous garbage pile was the likely cause. The warehouse had been capable of storing up to three years’ worth of the town’s garbage at a time. Overnight, the town’s 900 or so residents were left with nothing. Garbage piled up in town. Dumpsters overflowed.

In the wake of the fire, the town was forced to dump all of its waste on top of the tundra, on an old landfill, about six kilometres from the L5 site, where a hard fence and an electric fence kept the bears at bay. It remains a tenuous stopgap. By that fall, as hundreds of hungry polar bears arrived on the shore of Hudson Bay to wait for the sea ice to freeze, an inconvenience had turned into a crisis. Bears congregated at the fence line, biding their time. When an ice storm fatefully knocked out the fence’s power supply, more than thirty ravenous polar bears stormed the enclosure to gorge on the garbage.

After two years, Churchill is still without a solution. The Manitoba government did not respond to requests for an interview. The town is looking at replacing the old waste storage building with a steel option, but cost (hindered by price hikes for steel due to the United States’ tariffs) and uncertainty around the location have stalled the decision. In the meantime, camera traps set up around Churchill’s makeshift facility filmed polar bears—lone males, females with cubs, subadults—trying their luck almost every single day this past fall, scientists say.

I wonder whether the major providers will use this as an excuse to jack up the prices, internet specifically, or try to be more competitive. Telus was ready to buy me out of contract, install a line that doesn't exist and offer month to month from get go, so logically I would assume it could help drive prices down, but then again greed beats logic.

At the very least I hope the cellphone plan changes should help those who don't usually shop around and don't sign up for plans when providers offer to "cover" the connection fee or w/e they call that bullshit.

With war in the Middle East keeping the critical Strait of Hormuz fuel route closed, the international community is reaching into its oil reserves to fill the supply gap.

On Wednesday, the International Energy Agency (IEA) agreed to release 400 million barrels from its emergency reserves — its largest-ever release — in order to help ease a disruption of "unprecedented" scale, the IEA said.

That's drawing scrutiny of Canada's oil reserves — or, rather, its lack of them, as Canada is the only nation in the G7 that doesn't maintain a strategic reserve.

While Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said on Wednesday that Canada would "do its part" to help contribute to the global oil supply, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre criticized the Liberal government for not having any reserves.