VANCOUVER — Money-laundering operations through casinos are tied to British Columbia’s opioid crisis and the real-estate market, the attorney general said Wednesday as he released an independent report detailing how organized crime groups used the gaming industry to fuel the overdose crisis and skyrocketing housing prices. David Eby said the problem surfaced in 2011 but…
Donald Trump attacked Elizabeth Warren, the first major Democrat candidate to declare for the 2020 presidential race, saying voters should "ask her psychiatrist" if she could win. Ms Warren,69, the US senator from Massachusetts, announced her White House run on New Year’s Eve, saying she would "fight all the way" against Mr Trump. The two…
The personal tax filing deadline for most Canadian taxpayers who have T1 tax forms just passed. If you have self-employment income, the filing deadline is June 15. This means that tax returns have to be filed by midnight on those respective dates. If you don’t file your taxes on time, you face a number of…
Two major Dutch hospitals say they will stop importing human body parts from American firms, which they have been doing without any regulation for a decade. The hospitals told Reuters in recent weeks they made their decisions on ethical grounds. The move comes amid investigations by US law enforcement into some so-called body brokers – companies…
Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee, the two recently announced Pokémon titles headed to Nintendo Switch later this year, were swiftly joined by the announcement of the Poké Ball Plus – a controller of sorts that allows players to catch Pokémon in a brand new way. At the time, it seemed as though Nintendo…
An aspiring actress who had a sexual relationship with Woody Allen as a teenager has spoken for the first time about their affair, describing her shock to find that she partially inspired the Mariel Hemingway character in his film Manhattan. Babi Christina Engelhardt was 16 in 1976, when she embarked on an eight year relationship…
There is a joke that capital punishment in Canada is spending two weeks in Ottawa. Well, homebuyers these days disagree. The somewhat sleepy government town with pretty canals and gothic government buildings is now a real estate juggernaut, with rapidly rising prices, supply shortages, bidding wars and growing interest from foreign buyers. Canada’s capital now…
A tide of #MeToo testimonies about painful gynaecological procedures and abusive medical staff is rippling across the Balkans, where women are breaking taboos in patriarchal societies to share their traumatic hospital experiences. The outcry was sparked by one female politician’s emotional account of an agonising treatment she received after a miscarriage, shocking many in a region…
BRAMPTON, Ont. — Loblaw Companies Ltd. is recalling certain packages of No Name brand chicken burgers out of what the retailer calls “an abundance of caution.” The company says the burgers, which have a best before date of Feb. 6, 2019, may pose a risk of salmonella if they aren’t prepared properly. The products were…
Italian police are hunting a gang of armed robbers who blocked a motorway with burning vehicles and used a digger to rip open a security van “like a can of tuna” to steal €2.3 million (£2.1 million) in cash. The four men, who were masked, fired shots from automatic weapons to intimidate the security guards…