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The Ontario government says it's requiring its public servants to return to the office full time, with employees going in-person five days a week by January 2026.
Current mandate of 3 days a week has been provincial government policy since April 2022. Premier Doug Ford's government is ordering Ontario public servants to work from the office four days a week starting this fall and then full-time in January. It's a change from a policy that has been in place since April 2022, when provincial government employees were...
Federal officials spent at least $170,000 bringing Canadian ISIS women home from Syria, according to internal government documents that show expenses for ice cream, candy and wine. The money was for costs incurred when eight women who had traveled to the Middle East to join the Islamic State returned to Canada with their children in 2022 and 2023.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law 90 years ago this week, he vowed it would provide economic stability to older people while giving the U.S. "an economic structure of vastly greater soundness."
The sternly worded statements and letters are filled with indignation and outrage: Republican U.S. lawmakers say Canada has done too little to contain wildfires and smoke that have fouled the air in several states this summer.
The Liberal Party, led by Mark Carney, holds a lead in federal voting intentions with 46% support among decided voters, compared to 36% for the Conservatives. Support for the Liberals is especially strong in Atlantic Canada (68%), among women (50%) and Canadians aged 55+ (50%). The NDP are polling at 6% nationally. Satisfaction with the federal government led by Mark...
The increased presence of local and federal law enforcement officers in Washington, D.C. has intensified in the days following President Donald Trump's unprecedented announcement that his administration would take over the city's police department for at least a month. Troops are expected to start more missions in Washington on Thursday.
ChatGPT-5 is finally here and, while it’s less powerful than some hoped, most experts see it as a big step forward. Sam Altman was confident enough to pull all OpenAI’s old models off the market, replacing them with GPT-5—that is, until outraged users started a firestorm on X and Reddit. They claimed they’d formed personal relationships with the models Altman...
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