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    A sex toy manufacturer has been ordered to pay out £2.4 million in compensation after it spied on its customers. The makers of the We-Vibe 4 Plus sex toy must pay each customer up to £6,120 each after it used the £115 remote-controlled gadget to track peoples bedroom habits. The devices gathered information on temperature changes, the settings that customers chose and also peoples email addresses. The toy is designed for people in long-distance relationships with couples able to control the device even when they’re in the next city. But Standard Innovation, the Canadian company which makes the toy, was sued after couples discovered their details were being sent back to the company without their permission, the Mail Online reported. The company will pay out £2.4 million, in...

    The French-Canadian student charged in connection with a shooting spree that killed six people at a Quebec City mosque was a supporter Donald Trump and far-right French politician Marine Le Pen. Described by one former classmate as a "nerdy outcast." Alexandre Bissonnette, is the sole suspect in the shooting. The 27-year-old was charged with six counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon. Police said he acted alone. On his Facebook page, he indicated he liked Le Pen, US President Donald Trump, the separatist Parti Quebecois as well as Canada's left-wing New Democratic Party, the Israeli Defense Forces, heavy metal band Megadeth and pop star Katy Perry. I wrote him off as a xenophobe. I didn't even think of him as totally raci...

    Six people died and eight were injured after gunmen opened fire at a Quebec City mosque, a shooting that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned Monday as a terrorist attack. Police spokeswoman Christine Coulombe told journalists that two suspects were arrested following the attack, that police were also treating as an act of terrorism. Trudeau said in a statement that ‘we condemn this terrorist attack on Muslims in a center of worship and refuge. Muslim-Canadians are an important part of our national fabric, and these senseless acts have no place in our communities, city and country. According to witnesses interviewed on local television, two masked gunmen entered the cultural center at about 7:15pm (0015 GMT) on Sunday. The motive of the attack was not immediate...

    Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has conferred Bangladesh Liberation War Honour award posthumously on former Canadian premier Pierre Elliott Trudeau. She handed over the Friends of Liberation War Honour award to Pierre Trudeau's son and Canada's incumbent PM Justin Trudeau after her bilateral talks with him at Hyatt Regency Montreal yesterday. The Bangladesh government awarded the honour to Pierre Trudeau for his outstanding support and contribution during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971. Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque and Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and Bangladesh High Commissioner in Ottawa Mizanur Rahman were present on the occasion. Briefing reporters after the event, Foreign Secretary Shahidul Huq said while handing over the award, Sheikh ...

    Canada police allow women officers to wear hijab. Hoping to boost recruiting of Muslim women, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is allowing its officers to wear hijabs as part of their uniforms, the government said Tuesday. The commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police recently approved this addition to the uniform, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale’s spokesperson Scott Bardsley told AFP. This is intended to better reflect the diversity in our communities and encourage more Muslim women to consider the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as a career option, he said. The RCMP officer’s uniform — a red serge tunic, leather riding boots and wide-brimmed felt campaign hat — is an iconic Canadian symbol. It dates back to the 1800s, when the RCMP’s forerunner, the frontier ...

    A wildfire that is raging across the province of Alberta is due to become Canada's costliest natural disaster later today, after reaching the size of Warwickshire. The blaze, which has forced the evacuation of 88,000 people from the city of Fort McMurray, doubled in size on Saturday to around 494,000 acres, according to firefighters. The English county of Warwickshire is 488,000 acres. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale warned that the situation in the parched Alberta oil sands region was "unpredictable and dangerous". Officials said the inferno is being propelled by high winds northeast towards neighbouring Saskatchewan province. The tinder-dry forests that are fuelling the fire also surround an oil sands facility, which some officials fear could be under threat. A...

    The Canadian province of Alberta has declared a state of emergency after a raging wildfire destroyed dozens of homes, engulfed several neighbourhoods and forced the hurried evacuation of the entire city of Fort McMurray. More than 80,000 residents were ordered to leave the northern Alberta city after shifting winds saw the blaze go from being largely controlled to a “nasty, ugly” inferno as described by the local fire chief. By Wednesday, more than 250 firefighters were fighting the fire, assisted by helicopters and air tankers. Officials estimated that 1,600 structures had been damaged or destroyed by Wednesday night. As flames fanned south on Thursday, officials also issued mandatory evacuation orders for the Anzac, Gregoire Lake Estates and Fort McMurray First Nation co...

    A Canadian woman has claimed a frozen lump of excrement from a plane passing overhead ripped through the roof of her mother’s house. Stephanie Moore said she was woken up by a crashing sound and saw a huge hole in the ceiling in the hallway - less than 15ft from where she was sleeping. The 36-year-old teacher had been staying with her mother overnight after returning from a trip to Cuba. After the incident, she said she found pink insulation, drywall, ceiling material and shattered bits of wood on the hallway floor in a puddle of water. In the morning, daylight could be seen shining through the hole which was around one metre in diameter and the crash had caused damage to the roof’s planking and shingles. Ms Moore told CBC News: "At first I thought it was just damage to th...