GAC redacted details about what was discussed during the meetings.

Kevin Kielty, was charged with two counts of alleged employment-related offences under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), including employing foreign nationals in a capacity in which the foreign nationals are not authorized, and counselling foreign nationals to work in Canada without authorization.

On March 2, 2026, he pleaded guilty to both counts and was sentenced to two years’ probation, 50 hours of community service and was fined $70,000.

Loblaws and others cheating customers again

The sub-headline gets it all wrong. The never ending shift to the centre is what is creating extreme dissatisfaction in politics world wide. A truly leftist party like the NDP has an opportunity to show that, given the option, voters will show up to support rather than sit at home and complain about political choices.

The gap between Canada's richest and poorest grew last year as financial markets gained, interest payouts declined and the job market softened, said Statistics Canada on Monday.

The agency says the income gap — measuring the difference in the share of disposable income between households in the top 40 per cent and those in the bottom 40 per cent — reached 46.7 percentage points in 2025.

The result compared with a gap of 46.4 percentage points a year earlier.

The wider gap came as the lowest-income households saw wages rise slower than the overall average and saw their investment income fall because of lower interest payments on savings, the agency said.

Meanwhile, Statistics Canada says the top 20 per cent of the wealth distribution accounted for 65.7 per cent of Canada's total net worth at the end of 2025, averaging $3.5 million per household.

I heard about this new Microslop data center called YTO 40 from a segment of The Rational National and I looked it up since I'm bordering Etobicoke. It's at 401 and Islington. The closest house is less than a kilometer away. If you've been following the latest on dc noise pollution, you probably understand what this means. Keep an eye for new structures in empty spaces or former big box plazas around you and talk your neighbours and councillors if you don't want 'em.

Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed Hungary’s shift toward support for both Ukraine and liberal democracy on Sunday after voters in the European nation ended 16 years of far-right government.

After Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban conceded defeat to Peter Magyar and his Tisza party on Sunday, Carney congratulated Magyar “on a decisive election victory” in a social media post.

“The Hungarian people have chosen a new path. We are ready to work with you, and our European allies, to deepen our co-operation in trade, defence, and security,” Carney wrote.

Former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff called it a historic moment for democracy in Central Europe.

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Dozens of Edmonton police officers patrolled the city’s streets in December equipped with body cameras that used artificial intelligence to scan faces, looking for what the police have deemed "high-risk offenders."

Documents and emails obtained by CBC News offer new insight into the Edmonton Police Service’s trial of bodycam facial recognition technology — the first police agency in Canada to do so.

The AI-powered facial recognition software was trained to detect the faces of about 7,000 people on a watchlist, based on mugshots of people police say have serious criminal warrants or are flagged as potential safety risks.

Key details from the documents include:

• The privacy assessment submitted to Alberta’s privacy watchdog by EPS includes wording that experts told CBC could open the possibility of sharing sensitive information;

• A “critical fault” system outage prevented matches for several days and may have extended the pilot project;

• The facial recognition model was supplied by Corsight AI, an Israeli company whose technology has reportedly been used for mass surveillance in Gaza.

Winnipeg's homeless community may be growing despite efforts to reduce some of the pressures forcing people onto the street.

End Homelessness Winnipeg says there were 8,248 people using shelters, temporary spaces or living on the streets as of the end of March.

"We know Winnipeggers are deeply concerned about our unsheltered relatives," End Homelessness CEO Jennifer Moore Rattray told CBC News on Monday.

"The problem of lack of safe, affordable housing is just growing, as we can see from the data year over year and even month over month."

End Homelessness says the number of people entering homelessness "is outpacing" those able to secure housing, with 104 newly homeless people in March compared with February.

Women, Indigenous and Black people account for a growing proportion of Vancouver's record homeless population, according to a report headed to city council on Tuesday.

The numbers are drawn from the 2025 Metro Vancouver homeless count, conducted over a 24-hour period in March of last year, but drills down into Vancouver-specific data and provides a more detailed snapshot of the lives of unhoused people in the city.

Council is set to hear the report for information, but isn't slated to vote on any policy changes.

Vancouver's homeless population hit a record high of 2,715 last year, up 12 per cent from 2023, according to the report from the city's general manager of arts, culture and community services.