Buckingham Palace said that it is cooperating with an independent study exploring the relationship between the British monarchy and the slave trade in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Palace said King Charles takes the issue “profoundly seriously”.
The research is being carried out by the University of Manchester with Historic Royal Palaces.
Buckingham Palace is granting researchers full access to the Royal Archives and the Royal Collection.
Charles will be the 2nd last King.
‘Most households will see a net loss, paying more in the federal fuel charge and GST,’ the PBO says
… Guelph MP Lloyd Longfield wrote an open letter to Giroux on Wednesday asking him to take a broader perspective, arguing the PBO wasn’t factoring in the cost of climate inaction.
“In light of the overwhelming body of evidence, including your own analysis, that climate change is bringing huge costs to bear on Canadians, I would ask that you launch a new study that integrates both sides of the climate ledger into your assessment,” Longfield wrote.
Make 2+2=5!
An Ohio school bus driver resigned in despair after screaming at students who sprayed perfume on her bus in the hopes of making her have an asthma attack.
Jackie Miller was filmed telling the alleged teenage bullies to ‘shut your mouth’ in the town of Amherst where she’d worked for the past two years, before finally declaring ‘I’m done with this s**t!’
The driver of 15 years quit after last week’s incident, throwing up her hands on what she told local outlets was incessantly bad behavior from a specific group of students on her line, who she claims bullied her out of a job.
The Royal Canadian Navy is making a pitch for the purchase of up to 12 new submarines at a cost of $60 billion, say National Defence and industry sources.
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The navy is pushing for the acquisition of the submarines to be included in the Liberal government’s Defence Policy Update. Last month at a defence conference in Ottawa, Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre acknowledged he was advocating on behalf of the navy for submarines.
The navy has a team examining the replacement of the current Victoria-class submarine fleet and there have been initial discussions with industry officials, sources said.
Silicon Valley has been rocked by the murder of a cryptocurrency start-up creator whose violent death has prompted Elon Musk to question police responses to street crime in San Francisco.
Bob Lee, founder of Cash App, on Tuesday died of multiple stab wounds sustained in an apparent attack outside a luxury apartment building in an area home to headquarters of major finance and tech companies including Google.
San Francisco is a progressive paradise, I don’t understand why they’re complaining about the very city they made.
Slain Cash App founder Bob Lee had just moved to Miami because San Francisco was ‘deteriorating’: pal
The Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association (OMCA) has released an official statement responding to a National Review report which revealed that its senior leadership believes the basic mathematical truism “2+2=4” is an expression of “Covert White Supremacy.”
An ‘Amazon for crime’ online marketplace selling millions of sets of stolen personal information for 56p each has been blown open by UK and international investigators.
A sting on the site – which was called Genesis Market – unfolded last night and saw raids on users across the globe.
It was led by the FBI and Dutch police forces and 17 other countries, including the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), which made 24 arrests in and around Grimsby.
… As he registered as a candidate on Monday, Anthony Furey promised a 90-day review of all government spending. Furey questioned whether all existing programs are needed at a time when the city is in financial trouble.
He pointed to a grant program that offers up to $1,000 for JK-12 students in the Toronto District School Board to engage in environmental advocacy.
“It’s not the job of Toronto taxpayers to shell out for activists,” Furey said.
Newstalk 1010 host John Moore, like many journalists in the city, has been reporting on the violent incidents on the TTC in recent months and on Tuesday, he himself had a terrifying encounter on a downtown subway that left him shaken.
Speaking to CP24.com on Wednesday, the host of Moore in the Morning recounted the incident with an unknown man that occurred at College Station. He said as he approached the fare turnstiles, he saw five TTC workers engaged with a man who he described as “agitated.”
OTTAWA — The federal government lacked the evidence to determine protests and barricades across Canada last year were threats to national security, an organization that defends constitutional rights told a federal judge Tuesday.
Disgraced Frank founder Charlie Javice has joined the likes of Elizabeth Holmes and Sam Bankman-Fried on a growing list of founders to be lavished with honors by the financial news outlet Forbes – only to later face criminal fraud charges.
Forbes has faced relentless mockery on social media – with users pointing out the dubious record of business figures who have earned a spot on one of its “30 Under 30” lists or the cover of its magazine.
Uncanny.
Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives are under fire after former provincial bureaucrat Sanjay Madan was able to steal $47.4 million in taxpayers’ money.
NDP Leader Marit Stiles is demanding to know how Madan could dupe the Tories and the previous Liberal government between 2011 and 2020.
“Where was the government — both the Liberals and the Conservatives — when (almost) $50 million of government funding went out the door?” Stiles thundered Wednesday.
The jury trial of a man accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl in Burnaby in 2017 began Wednesday in the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
Ibrahim Ali is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Marrisa Shen. He entered a plea of not guilty to the crime in court Wednesday morning.
Shen’s body was found in a wooded corner of Burnaby’s Central Park on July 18, 2017, several hours after she went missing.
The Judge warned the racist Canadian Jurors to not be Racist Canadian Jurors.
Taking up where disgraced Democratic attorney Michael Avenatti left off, New York prosecutor Alvin Bragg has indicted former President Donald Trump with — well, no one is exactly sure how to describe the crime.
If Bragg were trying to ding Trump with a misdemeanor, he would have to show that Trump was knowingly involved in the false bookkeeping entries that the Trump Organization used to describe various hush-money payments regarding affair allegations. But Bragg brought 34 felony charges against Trump on the premise that the false business records were part of a greater criminal scheme.
Years before Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a “no-limits” partnership and the Kremlin launched a wide-ranging censorship campaign following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Beijing and Moscow were sharing methods and tactics for monitoring dissent and controlling the Internet.
That growing cooperation between the two countries is shown in documents and recordings from closed door meetings in 2017 and 2019 between officials from the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), its chief Internet regulator, and Roskomnadzor, the government agency charged with policing Russia’s Internet, that were obtained by RFE/RL’s Russian Investigative Unit (known as Systema) from a source who had access to the materials. DDoSecrets, a group that publishes leaked and hacked documents, provided software to search the files.
