18 h. ago Federal Court of Appeal to hear arguments in B.C. ostrich farm avian flu case

Universal Ostrich Farm is owned by Karen Espersen and Dave Bilinski. A website dedicated to their fight against the CFIA says they've been raising ostriches for more than 30 years.

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68 h. ago Boeing settles with Toronto man whose family died in a 737 Max crash in Ethiopia

CHICAGO (AP) — Boeing reached a settlement Friday with a Canadian man whose wife and three children were killed in a deadly 2019 crash in Ethiopia, averting the first trial connected to a devastating event that led to a worldwide grounding of Max jets. The jury trial at Chicago’s federal court had been set to […]

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3 d. ago Boeing settles with a man whose family died in a 737 Max crash in Ethiopia

CHICAGO (AP) — Boeing reached a settlement Friday with a Canadian man whose wife and three children were killed in a deadly 2019 crash in Ethiopia, averting the first trial connected to the devastating event that led to a worldwide grounding of Max jets. The jury trial at Chicago’s federal court had been set to […]

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3 d. ago British man extradited to US to face federal charges in alleged $99 million wine scam

NEW YORK (AP) — A British man has been brought to the U.S. to face charges in connection with an alleged $99 million Ponzi-like fraud involving expensive wines. James Wellesley, 58, pleaded not guilty during his arraignment Friday in Brooklyn federal court following his extradition from the United Kingdom, where he was arrested in 2022. […]

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3 d. ago Internal ArriveCan investigators’ report sealed by federal court order: Report

A Federal Court order has sealed an internal ArriveCan investigators’ report long sought by MPs according to Blacklock’s Reporter. The distribution of the report’s findings was blocked by Justice Henry Brown at the request of Cameron MacDonald, a former Canada Border Services Agency director who was briefly suspended over the $63-million program. “The allegations each […]

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3 d. ago U.S. appeals court tosses plea deal for accused mastermind of 9/11 attacks

The decision by a panel of the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., undoes an attempt to wrap up more than two decades of military prosecution.

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6 d. ago U.S. Supreme Court paves way for Trump to continue with federal layoffs

The justices overrode lower court orders that temporarily froze the cuts, which have been led by the Department of Government Efficiency.

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6 d. ago Supreme Court clears the way for Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce despite warnings that critical government services will be lost and hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be out of their jobs. The justices overrode lower court orders that temporarily froze the cuts, which […]

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7 d. ago Federal court ruling on psilocybin training a turning point: advocacy group

Therapsil believes experiencing the effects of the drug is essential to ensuring their health-care providers can guide people through the experience.

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2 w. ago Canadian World Bank employee jailed in sickening child pornography probe

A Canadian employee of the World Bank in Washington has been sent to a U.S. prison for four years after he was busted for distributing twisted child pornography involving babies. Matthew Norman Ballek, 32, of Saskatchewan, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court to 46 months in federal prison. Ballek pleaded guilty in October in […]

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2 w. ago Enbridge Line 5 pipeline dispute with Michigan goes to U.S. Supreme Court

Top U.S. court agrees to hear case concerning whether Michigan’s efforts to shut down pipeline belong in federal or state court

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2 w. ago Tech industry group sues Arkansas over new social media laws

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A tech industry trade group sued Arkansas Friday over two new laws that would place limits on content on social media platforms and would allow parents of children who killed themselves to sue over content on the platforms. The lawsuit by NetChoice filed in federal court in Fayetteville, Arkansas, comes […]

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2 w. ago Funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 decomposing bodies sentenced to 20 years in prison

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 dead bodies in a decrepit building and sent grieving families fake ashes was sentenced to 20 years in prison in federal court Friday for cheating customers and defrauding the federal government out of nearly $900,000 in COVID-19 aid. Jon Hallford, owner of Return […]

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2 w. ago Australian Treasurer Sues Foreign Investor in Rare Earths Miner

Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers has started the first legal case in the Federal Court for an alleged breach of the nation’s foreign investment laws, saying a shareholder in a rare earths company failed to heed his order to sell its stake.

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3 w. ago Federal court tosses legal challenges to ‘floatel’ for Woodfibre LNG workers

Canada's Federal Court has rejected legal challenges disputing the approval of a so-called "floatel" used to house workers near Squamish.

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3 w. ago Judge refuses more tests on ostriches at B.C. farm amid pending cull

A federal court won't allow the owners of a B.C. ostrich farm to conduct further testing of their flock for avian flu in a bid to avert a cull.

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3 w. ago Universities Win Order Voiding Agency’s 15% Research Cost Cap

Brown and Cornell universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and several other US schools won a federal court order striking down a National Science Foundation cap on indirect cost rates for government-funded research.

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3 w. ago Iranian who killed someone in England gets another chance to stay in Canada

A Federal Court judge granted Sirus Lotfi's application for a judicial review, overruling an immigration officer's refusal of his last ditch plea to stay in Canada

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3 w. ago B.C. ostrich farm wins stay of cull in federal appeal court, pending reveiw

The owners of Universal Ostrich Farm have been fighting an order from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to cull their flock after it was hit with an avian flu outbreak last year.

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3 w. ago B.C. ostrich farm wins stay of cull in federal appeal court, pending review

The owners of Universal Ostrich Farm have been fighting an order from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to cull their flock after it was hit with an avian flu outbreak last year.

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