After holding public hearings and gathering evidence in private, inquiry commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue has released an interim report into foreign interference in Canada's last two general elections. The public inquiry was established after a series of media reports in the Globe and Mail and Global News cited anonymous national security sources who alleged that China meddled in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections. Some key take-aways from the report: Foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections did not change who formed government Hogue had no difficulty concluding there was foreign

Canada's first Arctic and Offshore Patrol Vessel will officially be brought into the Pacific fleet today and Princess Anne, the sister of King Charles, is scheduled to take part in its commissioning ceremony. A news release says Anne will be attending the ceremony in her role as commodore-in-chief for the Canadian Fleet Pacific. National Defence says HMCS Max Bernays arrived in its new home port in Esquimalt last month, calling it a "pivotal milestone" in the expansion of the fleet. It says the introduction of the ship, named after a Canadian naval hero during the Second World War’s Battle o

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the interim bail of Arvind Kejriwal, who is lodged in Tihar Jail in the Delhi liquor scam case. Due to the elections, the Supreme Court is going to hear on May 7. A bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Dutta said that Kejriwal's interim bail can be considered in view of the Lok Sabha elections, so that he can participate in the election campaign. However, the apex court said Kejriwal's challenge to his arrest and remand, which is a main case, may take time. Interim bail will be considered only for participating in their election campaign.

Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has distanced himself from Punjab politics, can once again be seen campaigning for the Congress. Leader of Opposition in Punjab Vidhan Sabha and senior Congress leader Pratap Singh Bajwa says that Navjot Singh Sidhu will campaign for Gurjit Aujla in Amritsar in the coming days. It is worth noting that Navjot Singh Sidhu, who is considered to be close to Rahul Gandhi, was once one of the star campaigners of Congress, but this time, staying away from campaigning in the Lok Sabha elections, he is busy doing commentary for the Indian Premier League.

The Advocate General of the Punjab Government has admitted in the Supreme Court that Sidhu Moosewala was killed by lowering security, after which Moosewala's father Balkaur Singh has filed an FIR and demanded action against those responsible for leaking security information. Along with this, he surrounded the Aam Aadmi Party government and said that it has been one and a half years since the interview of Lawrence Bishnoi but the government has not been able to trace him till date. It is to be noted that the Special Investigation Team is conducting the investigation regarding Lawrence's priso

Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal has accused the state of law and order collapse and the rise of gangster culture under the rule of Aam Aadmi Party. Badal said that because of this the industry of Punjab is going out of the state.Sukhbir Singh Badal while talking to reporters said that many industrialists of Ludhiana said that they were victims of forced extortion and they felt it was right to pay the extortion amount because the state government had failed to crack down on the gangsters.Badal said that I assure Punjabis that after Shiromani Akali Dal comes to power, the gover

There are serious allegations against Aam Aadmi Party MLA Manwinder Singh Giaspura from Payal constituency of Ludhiana in Punjab. Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia has made public a complaint of the truck association, which says that they are being charged one and a half lakh per acre for mining soil in Payal constituency. This complaint has been sent by the Truck Association to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, which has the signatures and mobile numbers of about 30 people. According to the truck association, 1 crore rupees have been taken from them so far and if they do not pay

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. Police in New Westminster, B.C., say they were called to a post-secondary school in the city when staff reported that a woman armed with a knife was inside the building. The woman was not a student at the institution and police say students and staff feared for their safety. Before police arrived, security had isolated the armed woman and police cleared out the building. Police called in the emergency response team, which convinced the woman to give herself up and she was safely arrested. Charges related to mischief and threats are being considered, police say. Royal Aven

Canada’s financial intelligence agency says it has levied a $9.2-million penalty against The Toronto-Dominion Bank for non-compliance with money laundering and terrorist financing measures as the bank also faces compliance investigations in the U.S. The penalty by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada follows on a $7.5-million fine against RBC and a $1.3-million fine against CIBC announced in December. The agency, known as Fintrac, says it imposed the penalty against TD for a range of failures including not submitting suspicious transaction reports when there was r