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Ontario’s solicitor general says he is going to “get to the bottom” of why dozens of prisoners in provincial jails are being mistakenly released every year — an issue that first came to the minister’s attention more than a year ago. Internal government documents, obtained by Global News through freedom of information laws, show the province “improperly” released more than 150 inmates between 2021 and September 2025, with no proper explanation as to why.The revelation led to scathing blowback at Queen’s Park from critics who claimed the government wasn’t adequately protecting the province and a rare admission from the minister…
GENEVA, April 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SITA’s 2025 Air Transport IT Insights report finds that, while the air transport industry invested a record $50.8 billion in technology in 2025, a common obstacle keeps emerging: where data does not flow freely between systems and partners, that investment cannot fully deliver what it was designed to unlock. The cost of this data coordination gap is higher than ever now that the conflict in the Middle East continues to disrupt the industry at a global scale. Operators investing in closing that gap are building foundations that will outlast the current disruption. “We…
Industry veteran Martin Doepke appointed CEO to spearhead strategic transformation and a partner-led global growth strategy.New brand identity and bespoke trading platforms engineered to differentiate and capture unique fintech segments.High-performance infrastructure designed to accelerate the expansion of world-leading crypto offerings. MELBOURNE, Australia, April 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Focus Markets, a global financial services provider, today announced a comprehensive strategic transformation designed to accelerate market expansion and scale its digital asset offering. Central to this new growth trajectory is a complete brand identity refresh and the appointment of Martin Doepke as Chief Executive Officer to lead the entity’s next chapter.…
OTTAWA, Ontario, April 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) has updated its 2026 and 2027 forecasts for home sales activity and average home prices via the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) Systems of Canadian real estate boards and associations. The major factor underpinning CREA’s long-standing forecast for higher activity going forward is the idea that pent-up demand, particularly from first-time buyers, would start to emerge from the sidelines after having been shut out of the market over the past four years. An important milestone for that to begin has been interest rates no longer expected to fall, as well as…
OTTAWA, Ontario, April 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The number of home sales recorded over Canadian MLS® Systems was virtually unchanged (-0.1%) on a month-over-month basis in March 2026. “Home sales activity remained at lower levels in March, as rising global economic uncertainty, along with a mid-month jump in fixed mortgage rates tied to incoming higher inflation, piled on to an already shaky economic start to the year,” said Shaun Cathcart,CREA’s Senior Economist. “2026 is still expected to see a modest amount of upward momentum in sales and a stabilization in prices as some pent-up first-time buyer demand enters the market,…
BEIJING, April 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The trans-Caspian route of the China Railway Express (Xi’an) saw robust growth in the first quarter of 2026, offering a faster and more resilient link between China and Europe, according to local authorities. An aerial drone photo taken on Nov. 17, 2025 shows a China-Europe freight train departing from the Xi’an International Port Station in Xi’an, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. The route runs from Xi’an, capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, to Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, passing through Kazakhstan and the Caspian Sea. The rail-sea corridor represents the shortest link for onward connections…
Oxford, UK – 16th April 2026 – Alethio Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel treatments for myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), today announced the unveiling of ATX‑011, a first‑in‑class, mutation‑agnostic antibody with potential to disrupt the $2B Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) market. Alongside this, the Company announces the appointment of Steve R. Coats, PhD, a veteran biologics leader, as Chief Development Officer, to advance the ATX-011 programme towards IND submission, targeted for Q1 2027. ATX-011 offers a potent, fast acting, durable solution for ET, a disease that is riddled with risk of serious complications, morbidity and mortality.ATX-011 is designed to replace Hydroxyurea’s (HU)…
MONACO, April 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AlphaPepe has crossed $860,000 in presale capital raised and the pace continues accelerating. Capital is entering at a rate that most projects in 2026 have failed to generate. The crypto news around AlphaPepe is building ahead of a planned Q2 2026 exchange listing as wallets commit serious size while Standard Chartered’s Bitcoin price prediction maintains a $150,000 target trajectory that anchors the most bullish institutional consensus of the year. Before getting into what those wallets see and why they are moving now, the Bitcoin price prediction and Standard Chartered’s $150,000 framework explain why…
LONDON, April 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — They are the UK’s finest young professionals, the future of our workforce, now they stand ready to compete on the world stage in a contest as intense, demanding and prestigious as any global sporting event. Team UK has been officially announced for WorldSkills Shanghai 2026, the international competition known as the “Skills Olympics,” where the world’s most talented apprentices and young professionals go head-to-head in a high-stakes battle of skill, precision and innovation. Selected, mentored and trained by WorldSkills UK, Team UK brings together a group of competitors at the very top of…
LONDON, April 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Kleene.ai, the AI-native data platform for mid-market and enterprise brands, today launched KAI Assistant — enabling data teams and business users to write SQL, debug pipelines, and navigate their data infrastructure using natural language. As data teams face growing pressure to deliver insights faster with fewer resources, KAI replaces the manual workflow of switching between SQL consoles, logs, documentation, and messaging threads with a single conversational interface inside the platform. It is now enabled for all existing customers. In early access, teams achieved 70% faster SQL generation and saved over 20 hours per…