Canada

Canada · 16 d ago

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Air Canada now charges $30 to book a flight by phone

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Since Oct 15, every new booking made through the airline's call centre carries a $30 non-refundable fee per passenger. A family of four booking by phone pays $120.

Canada · 16 d ago

A First Nation in Ontario builds its own data centre to protect its heritage

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The Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory, on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, installed a small data centre last year that holds video recordings of Anishinaabe speaking their language.

Canada · 16 d ago

Quebec court orders a judicial recount in Champlain

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Conservative Adriana Szalontai won the Mauricie riding by 191 votes on Oct 5. Defeated Parti Québécois candidate René Branchaud contested the result.

Canada · 16 d ago

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Ontario inspects eight private career colleges over suspected OSAP fraud

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Provincial investigators visited eight unnamed private career colleges, gathering information and interviewing people about possible irregularities or fraud. The province plans to widen the inspections to more schools and to the sector as a whole.

Canada · 16 d ago

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Canadian who took a flamingo from a Las Vegas hotel is convicted of animal cruelty

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Mitchell Fairbarn, 34, of Ontario, took a 27-year-old Chilean flamingo named Peachy from the habitat at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino on Mar 3 and carried it to his room.

Canada · 16 d ago

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Opposition demands an emergency sitting over Nova Scotia's AI data centre

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EverWind plans $10 billion in private investment for a data centre campus at its Point Tupper site near Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, has signed a long-term lease to use it.

Canada · 16 d ago

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Pearson gold heist trial hears wiretaps of suspects turning on each other

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Peel police say 6,600 gold bars weighing more than 400 kilograms were stolen from an Air Canada cargo warehouse at Pearson on Apr 17, 2023, after arriving from Switzerland. Only about a kilogram of the gold has been recovered.

Canada · 16 d ago

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BC Conservatives lead by five points as the campaign enters its final week, poll finds

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The BC Conservatives lead the NDP by five points among decided voters in British Columbia, according to an Innovative Research Group online poll conducted Oct 15 to 19.