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The BC NDP were campaigning in Richmond on Thursday morning and made an announcement targeted at drivers in the province. Leader David Eby announced that they will freeze basic car insurance rates through the Insurance Bureau of British Columbia for three years.This comes after Eby and interim BC Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson traded barbs about the future of the no-fault insurance model, which was introduced by the BC NDP in 2021.Details of a letter penned by Doerkson to trial lawyers became public on Tuesday through the MoveUp union, which represents workers at ICBC.In the letter, Doerkson says all options are…
Mia Goth has filed for divorce from Shia LaBeouf, 10 years after the actors got married. The petition, reviewed by the Associated Press, was filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court and says the 32-year-old Goth and the 40-year-old LaBeouf have been separated since July 2025.The former couple met in 2012 on the set of Nymphomaniac: Vol. II and got married in 2016 before announcing they had split and said they were divorcing in 2018; however, they remained legally married and reconciled in 2020 before welcoming a daughter in 2022. Goth is seeking primary legal and physical custody of their…
The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to a startup that hosted a match between a human and a robot last month, as reported by The New York Times.The fight, which took place on September 18th, pitted a human, Frankie LaPenna, against a humanoid robot owned by a tech startup, Rek, that was being piloted by a human using what the NYT described as a “remote virtual-reality system.” Rek says it is the “the humanoid robot fighting league” on its website, and the robot appears to be one from EngineAI but with a Terminator-like head swapped on top.The…
The orphaned polar bear who arrived at the Assiniboine Park Zoo this summer can now be viewed by the public, the park conservancy announced. The cub, who has not been named yet, arrived at Winnipeg’s zoo in August. He is less than a year old and arrived in the city from Churchill, Man., where he was found orphaned after his mother died.Since then, a team of animal care, veterinary and conservation experts have managed his care and helped him transition to this new home at the Leatherdale International Polar Bear Conservation Centre. The team helped him build trust and adjust at his…
Halle Berry’s daughter, Nahla Aubry, has responded to the child abuse allegations against the Catwoman actor. On Oct. 1, Berry was accused of abusing her 13-year-old son Maceo by her ex-husband, Olivier Martinez, who claimed she “physically abused our son, Maceo, by jumping on him, putting her hands around his neck, and choking him.”Berry has denied the allegations, referring to them as “entirely meritless and deliberately misleading.”In response to the allegations, Aubry, 18, denied the claims in an Oct. 3 Los Angeles Superior Court declaration obtained by People, Us Weekly and E! News. Global News has not independently viewed the court documents.“I…
Tim Cook stepped down as Apple CEO in September, handing over the top job to former hardware chief John Ternus and taking an executive chairman role. Cook’s still a visible representative of the company, having been recently photographed attending a state dinner at the White House. But in an interview with The Independent, Cook says he’s “not meddling” in Ternus’ work.“First of all, John and I have an incredible level of trust in each other,” Cook said. “The relationship must be based on trust, and the communication must be frequent and significant. But other than that, what I’m focused on…
By Dylan Robertson The Canadian Press Posted October 8, 2026 2:14 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The number of arrest and detention cases involving Canadians citizens has jumped 60 per cent, Global Affairs Canada says. The department’s annual report on consular cases, published Thursday, tracks an increase in arrests between April 2025 and March 2026, despite a 25 per cent decline in visits by Canadians to the U.S.The report does not explain what caused the increase, though U.S. President Donald Trump has expanded immigration raids and Canadians have reported facing uncomfortable questions from…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canadians will decide the future of Canada, not “large tech firms that think they can tell us what to do,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday, responding to Elon Musk’s comments that three Canadian provinces “should separate” from Canada. “The future of Canada will be decided by Canadians, and the priorities of Canadians, the priorities of the people of Quebec,” Carney told reporters in Sherbrooke, Que., on Thursday.Musk, a former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, said on his social media platform X that Quebec should separate, as should Alberta and…
After months of calls to do so, the Alberta government announced Tuesday it will pause the provincial fuel tax on gasoline and diesel. The tax is 13 cents a litre on gasoline and diesel, the province said. The suspension begins Oct. 1 and will last until the end of the year.Under Alberta’s relief program, quarterly reductions to the provincial fuel tax are introduced when the price of the American benchmark crude oil, West Texas Intermediate, averages at least US$80 per barrel over a review period of 20 trading days.The average price of WTI during the last review period from Aug. 18…
Country singer Miranda Lambert is sharing the details of a long-rumoured bar fight she had in 2010 with Nickelback’s frontman Chad Kroeger. During an appearance on The New York Times’ Popcast, Lambert was asked about her interaction with Kroeger more than 15 years after it was rumoured that she got into a fight with the Canadian singer.Co-host Joe Coscarelli asked, “True or false: you hit Chad Kroeger in the face?”“I threw moonshine in his face,” Lambert said, clarifying that she never hit him. When co-host Jon Caramanica asked her how “luscious was his hair at the time,” Lambert said she…