Edmonton woman sentenced to 12 months for defrauding vulnerable client of more than $73,000
An Edmonton woman has been sentenced to 12 months in jail after pleading guilty to defrauding a vulnerable client of more than $73,000.
Shum Shabat Yousouf, 35, pleaded guilty to fraud over $5,000 in November 2025. She was sentenced Friday in the Edmonton Court of Justice.
LÉVIS – Prime Minister Mark Carney said the federal government will pour $11.3 billion into Quebec’s shipbuilding industry to build six new icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard.
Carney called it the “largest” shipbuilding contract in the province’s history.
The new ships will replace the coast guard’s aging heavy and medium icebreakers, fulfilling a promise made in 2019.
Identifying Canada’s democratic defects is easier than correcting them.
Part One of this series described a political system filled with institutions that appear to restrain government but frequently lack the independence or authority needed to do so. Parliament supposedly controls the government, although a disciplined majority government normally controls Parliament. Senators review legislation but are appointed. Courts protect constitutional rights but act only after someone launches a costly and lengthy challenge. Watchdogs investigate misconduct but rarely impose consequences. Elections allow governments to be replaced, but provide citizens with little control between votes.
VANCOUVER — Soccer fans are again voicing their disappointment over trade relations between the United States and Canada by booing the American national anthem.
Jeers echoed through Vancouver’s BC Place ahead of a Major League Soccer game between the Whitecaps and FC Dallas on Saturday as singer Emma Currie launched into the opening notes of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Abdul El-Sayed wants to be elected this fall as the next U.S. Senator for Michigan.
On Saturday, the Democratic candidate accused his Republican opponent of blindly supporting U.S. President Donald Trump and his new 50 per cent tariffs on Canada, which he said would cost Michigan families thousands of dollars a year.
“He’s a sock puppet who will do whatever Trump wants,” El-Sayed tweeted of Mike Rogers, a former FBI special agent, “no matter what it costs you.”
Abdul El-Sayed to Speak at Conference Calling for Muslim Takeover of U.S.
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a 42-year-old Montreal man facing five charges after a Canada Border Services Agency investigation alleged he helped dozens of people obtain visas through fraud and facilitated their entry into Canada.
The CBSA said Friday that proceedings against Abul Kasim were initiated at the Montreal courthouse on July 28.
“Mon pays, ce n’est pas un pays, c’est l’hiver,” Gilles Vigneault sings — my country is winter. Canada is shaped by cold, distance and northern regions inhabited by resilient people. Whether we embrace it or not, we are a polar nation.
Sovereignty over nearly 10 million square kilometres must be demonstrated: we must prove we can protect the vast North, develop its resources and create opportunities for its people. We must stop thinking small.
OTTAWA — Twenty-five years ago, many of us witnessed an event that changed the world — and us — irrevocably. To label anything “world-changing” is fraught with danger. What exactly changed? Were these changes truly global in nature? Why does an occurrence in one country — the United States — qualify as such?
Right-leaning Canadians’ trust in the bodies that manage Canadian elections has declined significantly since 2019, a McGill-led research team has found.
Their research draws on data collected between 2008 to 2021 by the Canadian Election Study (with about 72,000 respondents), as well as information gathered by the Media Ecosystem Observatory after the 2021 Canadian federal election (with nearly 3,000 respondents) and the Quebec election of 2022 (with approximately 1,500 respondents).
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At a time when government debt is soaring across the country, it’s time for Canadians to demand that politicians be upfront about the cost of big projects before moving forward with them.
Last week, it was reported that the Ford government’s Ontario Line, a 15.6-kilometre rapid transit project set to run through the heart of Toronto, will cost at least $34 billion.
Canada’s tech industry is warning that the country continues to lose its best and brightest entrepreneurs to the U.S., an issue that has taken on new urgency as tariff threats have prompted Ottawa to try to diversify away from the U.S. economy.
This week, various tech entrepreneurs, politicians and economists began to weigh in on data that show just how big the problem has become. According to recent figures, there are at least 517 U.S.-based tech firms with Canadian founders — or, entrepreneurs who were educated in Canada but later left for the U.S. — that have together raised more than US$400 billion.
Only 60 days remain until Albertans answer 10 questions that could shape the future of the province.
Nine focus on immigration and constitutional reform. But it’s the 10th question — whether Albertans want the province to remain in Canada or hold a second, binding referendum on separation — that is increasingly poised to animate town halls and rallies scheduled in the coming days.
Federal prosecutors have laid a new charge against the Halifax man accused of making a bomb threat against the United States Consulate in the city earlier this month.
A Crown lawyer confirmed in court on Aug. 18 that federal prosecutors had charged Ali Assakereh, 54, of Halifax, with threatening an internationally protected person.
The charge is under the Criminal Code provision covering threats involving internationally protected persons and their official premises.
Less than two hours before 50 per cent tariffs were scheduled to hit a range of Canadian goods, U.S. President Donald Trump announced he is pausing the levies for three days, based on a pending trade deal. And the development comes as Canadians weigh in on what should happen next.
