TORONTO — Canada’s privacy commissioner says he believes Parliament should put in place new legislated remedies to deal with potential harms from having personal information widely and easily available on the internet. Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien says Canada doesn’t explicitly recognize a “right to be forgotten,” as in the European Union. But Therrien thinks Canada’s […]
WASHINGTON — The Latest on embattled Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt and the ethical questions surrounding his travel and ties to Washington lobbyists (all times local): 4:30 p.m. The White House says President Donald Trump is not OK with recent revelations involving embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. The statement from spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hundreds of federal and local law enforcement agents have seized roughly 100 Northern California houses purchased with money wired to the United States by a Chinese-based crime organization and used to grow massive amounts of marijuana illegally, authorities said Wednesday. The raids culminate a monthslong investigation focusing on dozens of Chinese nationals […]
Analysis: Tech’s not just about shiny new gadgets anymore
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump persists in using a phoney number to justify his market-shaking trade actions against China. TRUMP tweets Wednesday: — “We are not in a trade war with China, that war was lost many years ago by the foolish, or incompetent, people who represented the U.S. Now we have a Trade Deficit […]
Facebook says it will tell people in a notice at the top of their news feeds starting April 9, if their information may have been shared
OTTAWA — With the winds of a potential China-U.S. trade war gaining strength, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says the global trading order that Canada helped create faces its greatest threat since the Second World War. Freeland is offering the dire assessment during a panel discussion in Winnipeg today. Freeland says she will be in […]
Unless both sides negotiate a solution, there doesn’t appear to be a way for either China or the U.S. to both back down and save face
NEW YORK — Even as trade tensions are mounting between the United States and China, the importance of Chinese moviegoers to Hollywood has never been more apparent. Global moviegoing reached a record high of $40.6 billion in 2017 despite a downturn in audiences at U.S. and Canada theatres, the Motion Picture Association of America said […]
DETROIT — Bargain prices on 2- and 3-year-old vehicles fueled record sales of used cars, trucks and SUVs last year, a trend that is expected to continue because people can save thousands of dollars over buying new. Used vehicle sales hit 39.2 million vehicles in 2017, more than double the number of new automobiles sold, […]