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Former University of Manitoba law school dean Jonathan Black-Branch, who was disbarred in Manitoba in 2024, has now also been disbarred in the U.K. and Wales.

The fuel crisis linked to the war with Iran is already worse than the combined crises from 1973, 1979 and 2022, according to the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA). The countries most at risk are developing nations, ‌says Fatih Birol, the executive director of the IEA. They ⁠would suffer more from higher oil…

Iranian officials are urging young people to form human chains around the country’s power plants, part of an effort to thwart U.S. attacks as President Donald Trump warned that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran does not meet his administration’s latest deadline. Trump has been escalating his threats against Iran, saying U.S. forces…

OTTAWA — Alberta is not happy about a newly announced federal nature strategy, saying it will impose burdensome and unconstitutional land-use restrictions on the province.  Alberta Environment Minister Grant Hunter said on Tuesday that he was concerned by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s sweeping pledge to protect at least 1.6 million square kilometres of land over…

As humanity returned to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years on Monday, photos and videos of Earth’s only natural satellite proliferated at the speed of the Artemis 2 spacecraft that took four NASA astronauts there. And while some of those are, in fact, authentic images and videos of the moon,…

More than three months after the winning ticket for a record-setting $80-million Lotto Max win was sold in London, Ont., the massive jackpot is in the process of being claimed. Why did it take so long?

A group that’s been searching for missing children and unmarked graves at the former McIntosh Indian Residential School in northwestern Ontario says it’s been denied federal funding to continue its work. Here’s what we know about the Wiikwogaming Tiinahtiisiiwin project and why its funding hasn’t been renewed.

Tech giants are facing increasing scrutiny over the environmental impact of their operations, but Microsoft Canada Inc . says its data centres for artificial intelligence (AI) use won’t increase the price of electricity for Canadians or affect their water use. AI data centres are filled with supercomputers that conduct huge amounts of calculations that can…

A Syrian refugee found not criminally responsible for failing to stop at an Ontario accident that killed two men and severely injured a third has received an absolute discharge, because he “does not at this time meet the threshold of significant threat to the safety of the public.” He was released from prison last fall…

The conflict in Iran has caused oil prices to surge, forcing several  airlines to up their fares . But it’s not just air travel that’s affected by the rising costs. Cruise passengers could soon be paying extra on their trip, too. StarCruises and Dream Cruises, both operated by Resorts World Cruises, notified passengers on March 17 of new fuel surcharges applied to bookings made on or after March 20. “Due…