Alberta’s attorney general and justice minister has asked for a judicial review after his federal counterpart ordered a new trial for a man convicted of killing an Edmonton woman almost four decades ago.

Roy Allan Sobotiak was sentenced in 1991 to life in prison for the murder of 34-year-old Susan Kaminsky, but federal Justice Minister Arif Virani has said there may have been a miscarriage of justice.

The James Street N. charcoal barbecue restaurant, Charred, re-opened Friday at noon for the first time since a fire on March 7, 2024

President Donald Trump on Friday said is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 75 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership.

Congress had mandated that the platform be divested from China by Jan. 19 or barred in the U.S. on national security grounds, but Trump moved unilaterally to extend the deadline to this weekend, as he sought to negotiate an agreement to keep it running. Trump has recently entertained an array of offers from U.S. businesses seeking to buy a share of the popular social media site, but China’s ByteDance, which owns TikTok and its closely-held algorithm, has insisted the platform is not for sale.

“My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress,” Trump posted on his social media platform. “The Deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed, which is why I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days.”

Trump added: “We look forward to working with TikTok and China to close the Deal.”

TikTok, which has headquarters in Singapore and Los Angeles, has said it prioritizes user safety, and China’s Foreign Ministry has said China’s government has never and will not ask companies to “collect or provide data, information or intelligence” held in foreign countries.

Trump’s delay of the ban marks the second time that he has temporarily blocked the 2024 law that banned the popular social video app after the deadline passed for ByteDance to divest. That law that was passed with bipartisan support in Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court, which said the ban was necessary for national security.

If the extension keeps control of TikTok’s algorithm under ByteDance’s authority, those national security concerns persist.

Chris Pierson, CEO of the cybersecurity and privacy protection platform BlackCloak, said that if the algorithm is still controlled by ByteDance, then it is still “controlled by a company that is in a foreign, adversarial nation state that actually could use that data for other means.”

“The main reason for all this is the control of data and the control of the algorithm,” said Pierson, who served on the Department of Homeland Security’s Privacy Committee and Cybersecurity Subcommittee for more than a decade. “If neither of those two things change, then it has not changed the underlying purpose, and it has not changed the underlying risks that are presented.”

The extension comes at a time when Americans are even more closely divided on what to do about TikTok than they were two years ago.

A recent Pew Research Center survey found that about one-third of Americans said they supported a TikTok ban, down from 50% in March 2023. Roughly one-third said they would oppose a ban, and a similar percentage said they weren’t sure.

Among those who said they supported banning the social media platform, about 8 in 10 cited concerns over users’ data security being at risk as a major factor in their decision, according to the report.

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Appropriately, Edith Ballantyne, a staunch defender of social justice, peace and equality, was born on International Human Rights day.

She was a young Czech refugee in Canada during the Second World War when she first came into contact with members of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. They were helping vulnerable newcomers such as herself settle here and preventing their exploitation. They sparked in her a passion for rights and freedoms.

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A Burton man remanded into custody on a variety of violent crimes - including sexual assault with a knife - denied the allegations against him Friday and will stand trial later this year.

Isaiah Joseph Ernest Bonnar, 23, of Irene Street in Burton, appeared in Fredericton provincial court by telephone from the Saint John Regional Correctional Centre on Friday to answer to numerous indictable charges.

Defence lawyer Isabelle Caissie said her client was electing to be tried in provincial court and pleading not guilty to all counts.

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MONTREAL — Quebec’s Court of Appeal has refused the provincial government’s request to allow arbitrary police traffic stops to continue until a legal challenge of the practice is heard by the Supreme Court of Canada.

In a decision rendered earlier this week, the province’s high court said the negative impacts of random stops on racialized people outweigh the benefits to the general public of letting them continue.

Instead, Court of Appeal Justice Stéphane Sansfaçon allowed only certain types of traffic stops to go ahead while the case makes its way through the Supreme Court legal process.

Those include impaired driving checks during which police officers want a breathalyzer sample, or in situations when vehicles need to be pulled over by provincial roadside inspectors.

Last October, the Court of Appeal upheld a landmark 2022 lower court decision that said random traffic stops by police lead to racial profiling, and that gave the government six months to modify the Highway Safety Code.

In December, the province said it was taking the matter to the Supreme Court, and last month asked the Court of Appeal to extend the deadline to modify the highway code until the case is heard at the country’s highest court.

In a statement today, the province’s public security and justice ministers said Monday’s Court of Appeal decision partially agrees with the government’s position. They said the province believes that random stops are an essential tool for police work and public safety.

The initial ruling by the Quebec Superior Court in 2022 only affected random traffic stops and not structured police operations such as roadside checkpoints aimed at stopping drunk drivers.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 4, 2025.

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One person is dead after a house fire in Victoria County early Thursday. According to a news release, RCMP and fire services were called to a structure fire on Big Harbour Road at 2:30 a.m.

A lithium exploration company working in the N.W.T. says getting a mine ready for production could be anywhere from six to eight years away – but already, it's evaluating how it would get the material refined and battery ready without relying on China. 

The Public Complaints Commission (PCC) is reviewing a complaint filed by a community member against Regina Police Chief Farooq Sheikh.

To support a fair and independent process, the Board of Police Commissioners has temporarily removed Chief Sheikh from active duty while the investigation takes place.

The Board says it has a duty to maintain the public’s trust in the Regina Police Service. It will not comment further while the PCC does its work.

In the meantime, Deputy Chief Lorilee Davies has stepped in as Acting Police Chief.

The Board says this decision was made under The Police Act, 1990, which guides how police oversight works in Saskatchewan.

Once the PCC completes its investigation, the Board of Police Commissioners will be notified. At that point, an update will be shared with the public.

The Board says it is committed to fairness, transparency, and public confidence while the matter is being reviewed.

RCMP are investigating an alleged sexual assault involving a teacher at the Maple Grove Education Centre in Hebron, N.S., and a former student.

A group of resistant Catholics in the tiny southern Avalon Peninsula community of Portugal Cove South have hired a lawyer and plan to take their fight into the courts in a bid a prevent their church from being sold.

Steinbach Fire Department was called to a fire Friday morning at Prairie Fibre Insulation Company.

The business is located along Park Road West, and Fire Chief Kel Toews says they received the call at about 10:20 am.

"When we arrived, we went inside and found a couple of the machines used to process the paper to make insulation, smoke coming out of them," explains Toews. "So, we had to pull them apart, open some doors, and apply water."

Toews says though there was no structural damage, it is difficult to know the full extent of damages. However, he notes the fire was contained to the equipment.

"It didn't get out to the structure," he says. "So, any damage would be to the equipment."

Toews adds there were no injuries.

"A bit of a mess in there now with the water and the shredded paper but there were no injuries," he says. "No structural damage."

Crews cleared the scene at around 11:30 am. 

Statistics Canada released the country's jobs numbers on Friday, revealing that British Columbia's employment rate had a ticked up slightly in March compared to the previous month.

The city is tackling St-Urbain Street this year in an effort to attract more public transit users and active commuters. It says some westside street parking will be scrapped to make way for a bus lane and wider bike paths, among other uses.