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Descrease article font size Increase article font size A stolen Land Rover fraudulently purchased in Saskatoon and later tracked to Ghana is highlighting a growing trend of Canadian vehicles being stolen and shipped overseas. Saskatoon police issued a release describing a months-long investigation that led officers to a stolen Land Rover that had travelled through British Columbia before ultimately ending up in the west African nation of Ghana.The Saskatoon investigation began on Jan. 14, 2025, when a business in the 2300 block of Faithfull Avenue reported that a man from Alberta had purchased a Land Rover via alleged identity fraud.With…
Bayern Munich star Alphonso Davies is among the 26 players who will represent Canada at the FIFA World Cup this summer. Head coach Jesse Marsch unveiled his roster on Friday following a training camp in Charlotte, N.C.Back in Toronto, giant banners of the squad were unfurled from the top of the CN Tower overlooking the city’s skyline.“These players reflect the many communities, cultures, and journeys that make up this country,” Marsch said in a release. “They are determined, fearless, and proud to wear Canada across their chest.” Davies was not at the camp in Charlotte as he continues to recover…
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Monument Mining Limited (TSX-V: MMY and FSE: D7Q1) (“Monument” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the results of an additional twenty-three (23) holes that have been received with high gold assay results from the Buffalo Reef/Felda areas and updated drilling activities, under the mine expansion drilling program at the Selinsing Gold Mine, located in Pahang State in the Central Gold Belt of Western Malaysia. Ms. Cathy Zhai, President and CEO of Monument commented: “The drill assay results reported in this announcement underlie the strong potential for resource addition outside of…
MONACO, May 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Crypto news today is turning toward AlphaPepe as Stage 17 moves closer to sellout with the current presale price set at $0.01804 per token. The presale has already crossed $1.36 million in total capital raised, the holder count has passed 9,000, the AlphaSwap AI DEX demo has surpassed 5,000 active users, and AlphaPepe has completed a full 10/10 BlockSAFU security audit ahead of its planned Q2 2026 exchange debut. The Stage 17 update gives AlphaPepe a clear company milestone as XRP price prediction headlines return to long-term upside targets, with Standard Chartered’s revised…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 29, 2026 5:49 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size As Ottawa appears to inch closer to a trade deal with India, Premier Scott Moe says he hopes the agreement addresses punishing tariffs on pulse crops. But Moe says if the deal doesn’t remove the duties, it’s something his province can work around. Get daily National news Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s top stories. Last year, India imposed a 30 per cent levy on all imported yellow peas and a 10 per cent duty on lentils, causing Canadian exports of the crops to dampen.Moe says an agreement with India would be positive.…
It’s the world’s worst kept secret that Nvidia is about to announce its own Arm-powered laptop chips at Computex this weekend, and now Microsoft, Nvidia, and Arm are all openly teasing the announcement. The Windows and Nvidia GeForce accounts on X both posted “A new era of PC” earlier today, and now Arm has followed up with an identical post.All three posts include coordinates pointing to where Computex is hosted in Taipei. Nvidia is holding a Computex keynote in Taipei at 8PM PT / 11PM ET on Sunday night, where it’s rumored to be announcing its new N1 and N1x…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The company building the west leg of the Valley Line LRT has been fined after one of its workers was seriously hurt on the job three summers ago. Workers were finishing post-tensioning of a segment of the Valley Line West on June 23, 2023, when one of them was injured by equipment.The province said that as a jack was pressured up, the concrete crumbled, causing the tensioning bar and the jack to hit and seriously injure the worker. Get daily National news Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll…
AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch — because, despite what its website says, there’s always a catch — is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, vacuum, dust, tidy, and wash, and use that footage to train robots.Shift announced the unusual offer on social media on Thursday, explaining that the value of the training data generated from the cleanings is more than enough to fund the service. As its website puts it: “You get a spotless apartment. We get training data. Everyone wins.”A promotional video shows a cleaner in a crisp white…
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Caraquet Mayor Bernard Thériault says he feels vindicated after hearing Canada’s Supreme Court will hear the case he and a group of Acadian Peninsula mayors have put forward regarding the closure of the Caraquet and Tracadie courthouses in 2022. The Forum des maires de la Péninsule acadienne Inc. argues the closures violated language rights.While Thériault says residents can receive service in French at the nearest courthouse an hour away in Bathurst, N.B., the mayors say the courthouses are institutions that should be protected by official language laws.“Because a courthouse is more than…
Wikipedia is one of the last bastions of trust on the internet. But last week, volunteer editors and contributors were alarmed to hear that a small but important team of engineers at the nonprofit that supports it had been laid off. The layoffs didn’t just threaten to sever an important link between the Wikimedia Foundation and its community — they also raised concerns that the WMF was engaging in union-busting. After days of heated discussion, some Wikipedians are ready to support a strike. What that even looks like on a platform where creators mostly aren’t being paid is a different…