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Descrease article font size Increase article font size A hunter in Quebec has been ordered to pay a total of $20,000 for hunting snow geese without a permit, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) says. On Monday, Joey Proulx, a resident of Vaudreuil-Dorion, pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Migratory Birds Regulations after hunting snow geese without a permit, says a release from the ECCC Wednesday.The man also pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Migratory Birds Convention Act, after deliberately hindering the actions of an enforcement officer in carrying out their duties. Get breaking National news…

Mere months after opening, the Lodge Wadjemup is the only Australia entry on Time magazine’s 100 most extraordinary places to visit and stay on the planet.

A wrestling match on the court during Wednesday night’s game between the Houston Rockets and Phoenix Suns resulted in two ejections and one bloodied player. Houston’s Steven Adams and Phoenix’s Mason Plumlee were both given double technicals and ejected late in the second quarter after physical play under the net resulted in the players wrestling each other to the ground.  Houston Rockets center Steven Adams walks off the court after being ejected during the Phoenix Suns game at Toyota Center on March 12, 2025. (Troy Taormina-Imagn Images)”We just got tied up,” Plumlee said of the incident after the game. “He had been going…

The European Union is putting tariffs on a range of products from the United States in retaliation to President Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, and items that come from Republican-held states rank high on the hit list.The European Union plans to institute the tariffs in two phases: The first wave will take hold on April 1, and will impact goods that already had tariffs applied during Mr. Trump’s first term, such as bourbon, boats and motorcycles. For certain products like whiskey and Harley-Davidson motorcycles, those tariffs would be as much as a crushing 50 percent.The second wave is still being…

The SADC mission that has suffered losses this year will conduct a ‘phased withdrawal’ of its troops.The Southern African regional bloc has said it will conclude its troop deployment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), having decided on a “phased withdrawal”. Leaders from the 16-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) – which has lost at least a dozen soldiers in the eastern DRC since January – held a virtual summit on Thursday to discuss the ongoing conflict in an area that has seen three decades of unrest. The meeting comes a day after Angola announced that peace talks…

While on a visit to the New York state Capitol, President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan warned migrant “sanctuary” jurisdictions to “get out of the way” or they will “get exactly what they don’t want, more ICE agents in your community.”New York state law restricts local and state law enforcement agencies from complying with ICE detainers or holding illegal immigrants solely based on their immigration status. Another policy, known as the “Green Light Law,” allows illegal immigrants to obtain drivers’ licenses valid in the state of New York. Surrounded by Republican state lawmakers in the state Capitol building, Homan renewed…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Sure, Jan:Bloomberg (12/3/25) — Shares of Tesla Inc., Elon Musk’s public company, have been in freefall for the last few months. But shares in his private companies aren’t.Secondary market investors have sent the collective valuation of four of Musk’s private entities up 45% since the US election, according to a new analysis from trading platform Caplight, exclusively shared with Bloomberg.Musk’s status as world’s richest person rests more with SpaceX than Tesla. He owns 42 per cent of the rocket launcher, which was…

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The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into funding and operations at two Manhattan hotels being used as migrant shelters, according to several reports. Federal prosecutors sent subpoenas to the Roosevelt Hotel, which was converted into a migrant shelter and intake center, as well as the Stewart Hotel, which was transformed into a migrant shelter, according to CBS News. Prosecutors are seeking information on people who have stayed there, including their names and identifying information. Asylum seekers line up in front of the historic Roosevelt Hotel, converted into a city-run shelter for newly arrived migrant families in New York City. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu…

A new poll suggests that 40 per cent of Canadians are worried about losing their jobs as many businesses scale back hiring plans in response to the trade war with the United States. The Leger poll, which sampled more than 1,500 Canadian adults from March 7 to March 10, suggests that more than half of workers in Ontario were concerned about job security, the highest in the country, while just under one in four in Atlantic Canada said they were worried.Thirty-nine per cent of people in British Columbia and in Manitoba/Saskatchewan reported they’re worried about losing their jobs, compared to…