A northern Manitoba tour advertising a trip to an ancient Inuit hunting camp is raising concerns that tourists' presence there could damage an "irreplaceable" cultural and historical site, and the critical animal habitats around it.

The company behind the tour describes it as a "life-changing" adventure with access to Arctic animals in an "awe-inspiring northern wilderness largely untouched by human existence" and visits to what it calls "the Hudson Bay version of Stonehenge — ancient Inuit building remains and hunting grounds thousands of years old."

However, the trip — advertised on Lazy Bear's website at $16,800 per person — has caught the attention of more than just tourists, prompting conservation and hunting groups to voice concerns to the province about the overnight visits' potential to disrupt the areas included.

"You wouldn't just build, you know, a hotel right on the Grand Canyon," said Christopher Debicki, vice-president of policy development for the conservation group Oceans North, which was among the groups that recently wrote to provincial Natural Resources Minister Jamie Moses about the tours.

A Halifax-area man has had a slew of charges against him stayed after a judge concluded he was the subject of an illegal strip search by Halifax Regional Police.

Judge Alonzo Wright issued the stay in a ruling he delivered Wednesday in Halifax provincial court.

Dante Warnell Cromwell, 26, was facing more than 20 charges, including assault, drug trafficking and various firearms offences, stemming from an April 16, 2023, incident that Wright described as a case of "extreme road rage."

"I remind myself that the burden here is on the Crown to show that there was reasonable and probable grounds to conduct the most intrusive and degrading search available to the police," Wright said.

He raised a number of issues with the search, including the fact there were few notes kept by any of the officers, there were four officers present and the door to the room was left open.

Probably only regrets in because it makes the Liberals look bad.

So my parents got scammed last night, fraud case is open but it's likely not gonna go anywhere and they'll be out 10K - they know better and now they really know better, and I'm hoping to get some advice on a repayment strategy.

They absolutely don't have that kind of money and repayment will take a while.

Plan one is just put it on the mortgage, but they're currently locked in at a lower rate for 2 more years, so adjusting that isn't ideal if it changes the rate. If not, adding 10K to mortgage is no brainer.

Line of credit does carry lower interests, but it will accrue daily, credit cards are high interest, but interest is racked up monthly.

Would it be possible/smart (assuming +10K credit card capacity) to move LoC debt to the credit card for 25 ish days a month to avoid daily LoC interest, and then send the debt back to LoC for 5ish days (transfer time) and have the credit card at $0 at the end of every month? No credit card interest and far less days for LoC debt to accrue interest?

Obviously there is risk in not having the credit card paid off in time, but would this strategy be viable if properly executed?

A judge has reserved decision on a challenge of the fairness of the $510 million being paid to the lawyers who argued the landmark $10-billion Robinson Huron treaty annuities settlement.

At the Ontario Superior Court hearing Tuesday in a packed Toronto courtroom, as many as 1,000 people watched virtually at one point.

Two of the 21 member nations represented by Gimaa (Chief) of Atikameksheng Anishnawbek Craig Nootchtai and Ogimaa-Kwe (Chief) of Garden River First Nation Karen Bell brought the case, saying they feel the legal fees need to be reviewed and assessed for reasonableness.

Under the 1850 treaty, 21 First Nations shared their land north of Lake Huron in exchange for a promise of payments based on the wealth produced by the land.

The Crown unilaterally capped those payments at $4 per person per year in 1874.

In an agreed-upon statement issued late last week, the Law Society of B.C. reprimanded Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond and fined her $10,000, after she admitted she had made a series of false public claims about her accomplishments and history.

At the same time, the lawyer, former judge and academic suggests that a DNA test referenced in that agreement confirms the truth of her Indigenous ancestry claims.

(The) geneticist (who reviewed the DNA results), Simon Gravel of McGill University, told CBC when reached by phone that he was asked to review DNA results provided to him by Turpel-Lafond's lawyer from a test that had been conducted by U.S.-based Nebula Genomics.

"I also, myself, did not verify whether this report is from [Turpel-Lafond]," he said. "This is something that they're claiming."

He said the test results are similar to what the public would receive from an Ancestry.com or 23 and Me test, where a percentage of DNA ancestry is assigned from the various regions of the world.

British Columbia's Ministry of Land and Water says personnel are conducting assessments near a landslide that blocked the Chilcotin River in the province's Interior, including to understand risks that might exist downstream.

A government statement says the landslide Wednesday blocked the river that feeds into the Fraser River, and a sudden release of water "may cause rapid rises in river levels downstream along the Fraser River" south to Hope, B.C.

The River Forecast Centre has issued a flood warning for the Chilcotin River upstream of the landslide and a flood watch downstream.

As the devastating fires around Jasper National Park filled the sky with smoke and ash, John Pomeroy was thinking of the region's famous — and melting — glaciers.

Just a week before the fires, the University of Saskatchewan hydrologist had been to the Athabasca Glacier located about 100 kilometres south of the town of Jasper, to collect measurements. His team found that the glacier had already melted about three metres in thickness since last September. "Which is plenty for a mostly winter period," he said.

What Pomeroy's been seeing at the glacier is not the bright white, snowy landscape they're often associated with — but rather a grimy and darkened surface. He believes it's likely that the glacier has been further darkened by the ash and soot from the latest fires.

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The very public spat between the province and West Vancouver is over an extremely small number of properties, almost all of them in the parts of the Ambleside and Dundarave neighbourhoods close to Marine Drive and the city’s major bus route. Most of West Vancouver, which extends out to Horseshoe Bay in the west and up Cypress Mountain in the north, is unaffected by the ministry’s requirements.

West Vancouver, with a population of about 45,000, is routinely listed in real-estate profiles and media reports as one of the wealthiest communities in Canada, with high household net worth and high employment income overall. It has also been identified as one of the slowest-growing areas of Metro Vancouver of the past quarter century. About 80 per cent of West Vancouver employees commute from outside the city.

Councillor Christine Cassidy and other councillors said West Vancouver has been working hard to add housing, rezoning the city several years ago to allow the basement suites and coach houses on most lots as well as approving big new projects and areas for development.

“I’m not somebody who likes to be dictated to,” said Ms. Cassidy, calling the current government “now quite frankly bordering on communism.”

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A Toronto father and son who were arrested while in the "advanced stages" of planning a violent attack have been charged with multiple terrorism-related offences, the RMCP say.

Ahmad Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, 62, and Mostafa Eldidi, 26, face a total of nine charges; including conspiracy to commit murder for the benefit or at the direction of a terrorist group — namely the Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim militant group.

At some point over the past decade in Canada, McKinsey & Company became the North Star for how to fix things in Ottawa. The management consulting company has been called in to help digitize the Canadian navy, create a ten-year plan for a government-owned bank, modernize leadership at our border services agency, provide an international view on transforming our immigration department, and much more.

They weren’t the only major firm getting millions in these government contracts. Along with their rivals, McKinsey has formed a shadow public service—an army of analysts, many with degrees from impressive business schools, who promise to govern better than the bureaucrats.

Ottawa became increasingly reliant on McKinsey and the others, more than doubling its spending on management consultants over the Liberals’ time in office. Journalists then started asking questions about what, exactly, all this spending was getting us. Similar questions were raised across the industrialized world, where McKinsey and others have had a similar rise. Parliamentary hearings followed, interrogating the value for money of these lucrative gigs. Just as suddenly as he had ushered in this new consultocracy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered it to end—vowing, when I spoke with him in an interview for The Walrus, to “crack down.”

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) says it’s intervening in a legal dispute over Saskatchewan’s controversial pronoun laws to prevent the “abuse” of the notwithstanding clause.

The civil rights advocate was one of 11 parties approved to make arguments in a constitutional battle over Saskatchewan’s Parents Bill of Rights following a fiat from the appeal court on Friday.

Saskatchewan’s law requires consent for students under the age of 16 to change their names or pronouns while in school, puts broad restrictions on sexual health education and bars sexual assault centres from presenting in school.

The University of Regina’s UR Pride launched a legal challenge against the rules that began as a Ministry of Education policy in August 2023 before being introduced as a law, with the province invoking the notwithstanding clause to protect it from a potential court order.