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Once a Canadian tech darling, Hootsuite has been pursuing business with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the United States to provide social-media management services to the agency. According to internal documents obtained by The Globe and Mail, the Vancouver-based company has discussed monitoring conversations and sentiment on social media related to ICE, also known as "social listening," including about the agency's operations in specific cities.

"pushed us rather quickly into the 21st century instead."

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Federal prosecutors charged a man with wire fraud, alleging a "Catch Me if You Can"-reminiscent scheme. US Attorney Ken Sorenson said in a Tuesday press release that a Canadian man was charged over allegations that he pretended to be a pilot and a flight attendant to get hundreds of free trips. According to court documents, 33-year-old Dallas Pokornik from Toronto was arrested in Panama earlier this month and extradited to the US.

Marineland, the Canadian amusement park and aquarium which has threatened to kill its captive whales, wants government approval to sell the belugas to the United States after its China export proposal was rejected, according to an official and a former trainer. The former tourist attraction near the famed Niagara Falls has been mired in controversy for years. Twenty animals, including 19 belugas, have died at the park since 2019, according to a tally by the Canadian Press.

For Encarnación it was going to be tough to make an argument for why he should be a hall of famer. He had a lot of really good seasons, but never had one of those all-time great stretches, although between 2012 and 2019 he hit 297 home runs, had an OPS of .892 and and OPS+ of 138. He was worth 29.1 bWAR while playing with the Blue Jays, Cleveland Guardians, New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners over that run.

We expect this approach to gaining broader index inclusion will increase GFL's visibility with investors and ultimately drive a wider shareholder base,

Canada's federal court has overturned a government order to close TikTok's Canadian operations, allowing it to continue to operate for the time being.

the government is now looking to demands for batteries of a different sort to sustain it. Ford and the federal government negotiated to bring three electric vehicle battery plants to Ontario investments worth billions of dollars and had hoped to not only to see those batteries go into EVs made in the province but also to have them made with parts produced in Ontario and with minerals mined and refined in the province.

The offices "will ensure parents have a direct way to raise concerns, get help, and find solutions faster," Education Minister Paul Calandra said in a message to TDSB families last November.

It was a pretty crazy, a wave of us got called up all at once, and we all heard our name get called by the manager, and he told us we were going to the big leagues,

Toronto is under a yellow snowfall warning with 10 centimetres of snow expected to affect the morning and evening commute on Wednesday. An Alberta clipper, a low pressure system, is forecast to bring the snow starting Wednesday morning and easing in the afternoon, Environment Canada said in the warning issued late Tuesday afternoon. Visibility could be poor at times if the snow is heavy or blowing, the agency says.

The contract marks an important step in ENC's expansion into the Canadian market. With over 50 years of manufacturing experience and more than 500 million miles of transit service completed on the AXESS platform, the selection reflects the RCMP's confidence in ENC's field-tested quality, reliability, and ability to deliver on an expedited timeline,

Speaking from working right now in the middle of our flu season, where we haven't been able to handle a surge in acute care need anywhere in Canada it seems, I would be concerned going forward about having a surge in need for hospital resources, said Varner, CMAJ's deputy editor and an emergency doctor in downtown Toronto, in an interview with CBC News.

The new Ontario Line will include protective barriers at all stations to separate platforms from the tracks, something the Toronto Transit Commission has been considering adding to its subway system for years. "Platform edge doors" will be a part of all 15 stations on the 15.6-kilometre downtown subway line, slated to open in 2031, city staff said at a budget meeting Wednesday. The doors are transparent barriers that open to allow riders inside when trains roll in, but otherwise keep people, animals and debris off the tracks.

In 2014, Leon opened his brewery's first location inside a tiny warehouse space in the city's north-east. It was good timing. All over North America, millennials were going crazy for craft beer, and in Alberta, the government had recently changed rules to help microbreweries get their product to market. "There was a huge thirst in Alberta for craft beer," said Leon, who recalls getting emails about new breweries opening nearly every week. "It was a pretty wild time."