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Advocates concerned new online harms bill may chill free speech, undermine fairness

The Liberal government is proposing "draconian penalties" in the Criminal Code as part of its sweeping plan to target online hate, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association warns.

The Online Harms Act would hold platforms accountable for reducing users' exposure to harmful content in seven categories.

Samandeed Singh Gill, was acquitted by the B.C. Supreme Court after the revelation police had overstepped their warrants and held key evidence for years without legal authority. 

Russian forces bombarded Darivka hromada in Kherson Oblast on the morning of 29 February, killing a man in the village of Poniativka [a hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories - ed.

One arrested for drug trafficking after routine checkpoint in North Caribou Lake First Nation, seizing cocaine, weapons.

Antisemitism in spotlight as union faces human rights complaint for discrimination, harassment against Jewish members

A 35-year-old man was killed in a Russian shelling of Ponyativka village in the southern Ukrainian Kherson Oblast early on Feb. 29, the regional prosecutor’s office reported on Telegram.

An individual prohibited from driving is facing several charges after being clocked at high speeds on 1st Conc...

In its annual threat assessment, the spy agency has named sabotage by foreign actors as an increasing concern - and we too, should take it seriously.