Published on June 16th, 2023 at 05:42am EDTCanada has passed a new law that emphasizes the importance of the French language in Canada by prioritizing francophone immigration and minorities outside Quebec. Discover if You Are Eligible for Canadian Immigration Bill C-13 introduces, for the first time, immigration into the Official Languages ​​Act (OLA). The OLA is the federal statute that makes English and French the official languages ​​of Canada. The new law modernizes the Official Languages ​​Act to recognize that French, as an official language of Canada, is being threatened and must be protected. It is divided into three parts.…

US President Biden had previously said said cuts and sanctions were possible in response to the law.The United States has imposed travel restrictions on Ugandan officials in the wake of an anti-LGBTQ law signed by President Yoweri Museveni last month. The law has been condemned as one of the harshest in the world. Among other provisions, it is stated the death penalty for someone convicted of “aggravated homosexuality”, an offense that includes transmitting HIV through gay sex. It also carried a life sentence for same-sex intercourse and a 20-year sentence for promoting homosexuality. In a brief release on Friday, US Department of State spokesman Matthew Miller said the measures were in response to human rights abuses – “including those of LGBTQI+ persons” – and corruption.…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas businessman at the center of the scandal that led to the historic impeachment of state Attorney General Ken Paxton was charged Friday with making false statements to mortgage lenders to obtain $172 million in loans. The federal indictment of real estate developer Nate Paul is the result of a yearslong FBI investigation — a probe Paxton involved his office in, setting off a chain of events that led to a separate federal probe of the attorney general and his impeachment and suspension from office last month. Paul was charged with eight counts of making false statements while seeking loans from mortgage lenders in the US and Ireland.…

James Trusty, attorney for Donald Trump, appears on “Meet the Press” in Washington, DC, April 9, 2023. NBCUniversal | Getty ImagesAn attorney who quit the team defending Donald Trump in the criminal classified documents case said Friday he would no longer represent the former president in a separate defamation lawsuit against CNN. The lawyer, Jim Trusty, said in a court filing that his request to withdraw from the $475 million civil suit “is based upon irreconcilable differences” with Trump. “Counsel can no longer effectively and properly represent Plaintiff,” Trusty wrote in the filing in US District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va (WDTV) – Update 12:30pm: More details have been released in the DUI arrest of Bob Huggins in Pittsburgh on Friday. According to Huggins’ criminal complaint, the WVU head Men’s Basketball coach had a BAC of .210 when he was pulled over for a flat tire — more than two times the legal limit in Pennsylvania. Court documents say Huggins’ eyes were glassy and he showed signs of slurred and mumbled speech. Police say the vehicle Huggins was driving was leased through West Virginia University. Huggins was unable to explain how his tires got shredded, and he couldn’t tell officers where he was or how he got there, according to documents.…

OTTAWA – Canada should give “urgent consideration” to legal mechanisms as a way to combat residential school denialism, says a new report from the independent special interlocutor on unmarked graves. Justice Minister David Lambetti said he was open to such a solution. Kimberly Murray made the call in an interim report released Friday, just over a year after she was appointed to an advisory role focused on how Ottawa can help Indigenous communities search for children who died and disappeared from residential schools. The former executive director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada spent much of the past year traveling the country and hearing from different communities, experts and survivors.…

The attorney behind a major class-action lawsuit against Google claims that advances in artificial intelligence give the digital monopoly almost unlimited power to control lives, influence thoughts and shape society. “When the average person interacts with the internet, Google monitors and controls everything,” John C. Herman, of Herman Jones LLP in Atlanta, told Fox News Digital. “From the search results, to the advertisements, to the web pages themselves, Google controls it all,” he said. INVISIBLE AI’S ‘INTELLIGENT AGENT’ CAMERAS CAN SEE WHAT AUTOWORKERS AND MACHINERY ARE DOING WRONG He also said, “Adding in an AI component, we now have a single company that dictates what news people see, what products they buy and even how they vote.”…

(Photo Credit: AEW) The fallout from CM Punk’s actions at AEW All Out last year has loomed for the past eight months, ranging from his comments at the post-event press conference where he ripped several wrestlers to the brawl involving him and The Elite (Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks). Punk will be back for the June 17 premiere of AEW Collision. While Punk will be mostly separated from The Elite, they are expected to be backstage at some shows. Dave Meltzer reported in the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that nothing has changed regarding the two sides reconciling.…