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New rules for bar security staff are coming to Nova Scotia after recent incidents involving employees, including the death of a patron outside a Halifax bar in 2022. The new regulations come into effect Monday and apply to all licensed establishments in the province.Security staff will need criminal record checks and have to provide the results to the employer. They’ll also have to complete safety and responsible alcohol service training.“This is going to go towards ensuring safety, not just for patrons that visit the establishments, but also the individuals working on the door and other staff and the establishment itself,”…

A Russian opposition politician and prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin says the war in Ukraine is “backfiring” on the regime at home, with signs of falling domestic support as the Kremlin’s army stalls on the battlefield. In an interview with Global News on Friday, Vladimir Kara-Murza — who has survived multiple alleged poisoning attempts and was freed from a 25-year Russian prison sentence for protesting the war in a 2024 prisoner exchange — said mounting military and economic failures have stripped away Putin’s strongman image and exposed him as “increasingly weak.”“I think it is becoming increasingly clear to…

Several artists slated to perform at U.S. President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair have dropped out of the event following the lineup announcement. The Great American State Fair shows were announced earlier this week and are set to take place on Washington’s National Mall.Bret Michaels, Martina McBride, Young MC, Morris Day and the Commodores are among the scheduled acts who have said they will not be appearing.The Great American State Fair, a 16-day event organized by Trump’s non-profit Freedom 250, is expected to run June 25 through July 10.Freedom 250, which Trump launched late last year, describes itself as…

This week, an AI training startup called Shift said it would clean New Yorkers’ homes for free. It has plans to expand into other cities as well, including London, and looking around my flat, I get the appeal.But there’s a catch. There’s always a catch.In exchange for the cleaning, Shift wants footage of its cleaners at work: scrubbing dishes, wiping counters, dusting tables, mopping floors. It wants everything. Video of all the boring domestic labor we’d happily outsource if we could — and that robotics companies are racing to teach machines to do so they can sell us something to…

This September, Boréal Timmins will welcome the first cohort of this program, helping meet workforce needs in the mining and construction sectors in this part of Northern Ontario. TIMMINS, Ontario, May 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Collège Boréal today officially launched its Construction Engineering Technician — Civil and Mining program at its Timmins campus. In the presence of many dignitaries, including Gaétan Malette, MP for Kapuskasing—Timmins—Mushkegowuk; and Ashley Richards-Gagnon, President of the Timmins Construction Association and Co-Chair of Women in Trades and Tech Timmins, Collège Boréal’s senior leadership unveiled the facilities and equipment that will be used by the first…

A new study suggests fatigue may be a far bigger workplace safety issue than many Canadians realize, with more than one in five workers reporting unintentionally dozing off at work at least once a week. The Saskatchewan Employee Fatigue and Lifestyle Study, commissioned by the Saskatchewan Safety Council, found that 22 per cent of respondents experienced unintentional dozing while at work weekly, while 14 per cent said they had nodded off while driving home from work at least once a week.Researchers recently analyzed the data on sleep habits, fatigue levels and their impact on workplace safety and health.Experts say those…

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said that the economic relationship between Canada and China is “significant” as China’s foreign minister Wang Yi begins a three-day trip that will include meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney. Canadian journalists were not permitted to ask questions about her remarks with Wang. The last time Wang was in Ottawa 10 years ago, he unleashed a tirade on a Canadian reporter who asked about human rights in China at a joint press conference with then-foreign affairs minister Stephane Dion.Anand made no explicit mention of human rights during her remarks on Friday, which came shortly after confirmation…

When Shaunna Burke was faced with her own mortality after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis, she decided to take on one of the most extreme physical challenges, climbing Mount Everest. Burke said she understands the dangers are very real — she passed two dead bodies on her climb. But for her, the risk is worth it.“You start to learn how to manage any sort of fear you might have around mortality,” she told Global News. “And I think that’s what frees you to live. And that’s what freed me to live with my diagnosis as well.”Burke, originally from Quebec, now…

Davuluri notes that whatever is coming is “not a new OS version,” so that rules out the potential for Windows 12 to be announced at Microsoft’s Build developer conference next week. Separately, the Windows account on X posted a similar cryptic tweet, promising “a new era of PC” with coordinates pointing to where Computex is hosted in Taipei.Nvidia is rumored to be about to enter the Windows on Arm market again with its own chips, the N1 and N1X. I wrote yesterday that a partnership between Microsoft and Nvidia on these chips would make a lot of sense, and Microsoft…

Washington, DC, May 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Following a powerful and deeply moving bipartisan markup, the U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee unanimously advanced the DeOndra Dixon NIH INCLUDE Project Act (H.R. 3491) by a vote of 46-0, sending the landmark legislation to the full House of Representatives. The legislation, led by Representatives Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Richard Hudson (R-NC), would codify and strengthen the National Institutes of Health (NIH) INCLUDE Project (INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE), the most successful Down syndrome research initiative in U.S. history. For the Global Down Syndrome Foundation…