In this image provided by Comite Champagne, cans of Miller High Life beer sit in a container after being crushed at the Westlandia plant in Ypres, Belgium, Monday, April 17, 2023. Belgian customs have destroyed more than 2,000 cans of Miller High Life advertised as the ″Champagne of beers” at the request of houses and growers of the bubbly beverage. For years, Miller High Life has used the “Champagne of Beers” slogan. Miller High Life, its oldest brand, was launched as its flagship in 1903. “But we remain proud of Miller High Life, its nickname and its Milwaukee, Wisconsin provenance,” the company said.

Twitter has lifted its "government-funded media" and "state-affiliated" labels from NPR, CBC, BBC, China’s Xinhu, and Russia's RT accounts. NPR became the first major news organization to protest the "state-affiliated media" label on its Twitter account on April 12. CBC/Radio-Canada decided to pause its use of Twitter following the labeling of "government-funded media" by the social media platform. When CBC challenged Twitter's definition of "government-funded" by noting that it received other revenue, Twitter revised its label to "69% Government-funded media." CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINEROne social media user noticed that when Musk removed blue checkmarks from legacy accounts, the government-funded labels were removed at the same time.

Toronto heads to the polls to vote for a new mayor on June 26. This week saw a controversy over the Ontario Science Centre, the entry of Olivia Chow and the exit of Gil Penalosa. Here’s what else happened this week on the campaign trail:Fifty hats in the ringA milestone was hit this week with 50 people dropping $200 to become a candidate for mayor. Saunders would advocate for stricter bail laws from the federal government, something they are already working on. He’d also spend $1 million to open neighbourhood schools as community centres on evenings and weekends.

Ontario Minister of Infrastructure Kinga Surma visited Japan earlier this year to tour such railway infrastructure and urban development projects. The Consulate-General of Japan and the Toronto office of JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization) are also planning an event that aims to recreate shopping experiences available at many train stations across Japan (ekinaka). I wish to realize ekinaka in Union Station this fall, featuring various Japanese goods, including accessories, crafts and food, introducing another side of Japan to Canadians. Other companies in Japan are transforming plastic waste and marine debris into materials used for power lines and railways. Sasayama Takuya is the consul-general of Japan in Toronto.

It is actually the picture of a first-world problem: two political leaders fighting over whose rich friends are the worst. But that was the state of Canadian political debate this week, with Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre essentially accusing each other of flirting with the wrong type of wealthy people. But it’s fascinating to see how all of the political parties are using wealth as a political wedge against each other in the current climate. It’s not your imagination — Canadian political culture has definitely taken a turn against people of means in the past eight years. After 2015, when Trudeau came to power, that number nearly quadrupled — to 794 as of this week.

The happy occasion: the official announcement of the single largest transfer of public dollars to a private business in Canadian history. Such was the scene on Friday in St. Thomas, a small town just outside of London, Ont., where Canadians were finally told just how much a much-hyped historic “investment” was going to cost them: $13 billion. You read that right: Canadian governments are giving Volkswagen $13 billion to build a $7 billion plant. It’s the kind of bold leadership you can only get from sophisticated economic experts like Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford. A federal government that deploys subsidies as its primary economic tool is not showing “confidence” in the innovation or perseverance of Canadian business or workers.

An education consultant in India will be summoned to testify in the admissibility hearing in Canada of an international student, who allegedly used a fake college admission letter to illegally gain entry into the country. Batth, who arrived in Canada in 2018, said a relative referred his parents to Mishra in 2018 and he didn’t know the agent was neither a registered lawyer nor immigration consultant in Canada. He also claimed he wasn’t aware the admission letter to Humber College’s business program used for his visa application was doctored. Through another consultant in Brampton, he enrolled in a web design and programming diploma course at CDI College in Montreal. The tribunal has given Batth’s lawyer four weeks to serve the summons to the consultant in India to testify at the next hearing in May.

PRINCE RUPERT - A provincial court judge in Prince Rupert, B.C., has sentenced a 46-year-old man to a year in jail for contempt of court, ruling he tried to circumvent the justice system with “pseudo-legal” and “stupid” arguments. In his reasons for sentence on the contempt charge, Paterson found Hardy displayed “flagrant disregard” for the court’s directions and orders. Days after his arrest, Hardy was released from custody under the condition that he wasn’t allowed within 10 metres of a Prince Rupert liquor store. In later virtual court appearances, Hardy repeatedly challenged the court’s jurisdiction over him, saying he was “not a person. “My ruling made no difference to Hardy,” Paterson’s ruling says.

CBC News published this video item, entitled “‘This year was not us’: Raptors president #shorts” – below is their description. The Toronto Raptors fired head coach Nick Nurse on Friday after a disappointing season where the team failed to make the playoffs. “I did not enjoy watching this team play,” Raptors president Masai Ujiri told reporters shortly after Nurse’s dismissal was announced. Read more: www.cbc.ca/news CBC News YouTube ChannelGot a comment? Please note comments are moderated before publication.

Nick Nurse was let go by the Toronto Raptors on Friday after spending 10 years with the organization, including the last five as their head coach. The news was announced just before Raptors vice chairman and team president Masai Ujiri was to hold his end-of-season media availability. “The decision to make a change like this is never arrived at easily or taken lightly, especially when it comes to a person who has been an integral part of this franchise’s most historic accomplishments, and who has been a steady leader through some of our team’s most challenging times,” Ujiri said in a statement. This Star graphic tells the story of his accomplishments, by the numbers. With files from Doug SmithRead more about:SHARE:

OTTAWA—Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are the reason the interim ethics commissioner quit, Liberal House Leader Mark Holland said Thursday as the government remained on the defensive over its ethical track record. Still, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended the choice, noting she joined the office under the previous Conservative government, was second-in-command and there are procedures in place to guard from conflicts. Ethics office can’t make decisionsRichards’ office noted that without a commissioner in place, there are decisions in the office that simply cannot be taken, though they did not elaborate. One piece of guidance they gave recently was to Trudeau regarding a trip his family was taking to Jamaica over the Christmas holiday. So far, he has kept saying he was with family friends, and had ensured ahead of time that would be in keeping with ethics rules.

CBC's government-funded label vanished Friday, along with the state-affiliated tags on media accounts including Sputnik and RT in Russia and Xinhua in China. Twitter had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue-check system -- many of them journalists, athletes and public figures. "My Twitter account says I've subscribed to Twitter Blue. On Thursday, Warwick lost her blue check (which is actually a white check mark in a blue background). THIS account is the only authentic Twitter account representing and run by the New York City Government."

CBC “paused” its use of Twitter after being labelled “government-funded media” there. CBC huffed that it’s “arm’s length” from the government that funds it, has journalistic independence etc. My argument isn’t that CBC faces no pressure, but that it’s no worse and possibly less, than the pressures on private media outlets. What’s surprising about CBC, given the difference in funding sources, is how similar CBC is on basic coverage to the commercial networks. To test this, I flipped CBC on randomly Wednesday and found an interview by CBC’s David Cochrane with retired general Andrew Leslie.

It’s here, in February, that six Indigenous designers from Canada were invited to show their collections in a dedicated airy, industrial space. The seed was planted in discussions with the Canadian embassy in Italy, then Paul invited White Milano organizers to come to Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto in June 2022. “To have my work and our work collectively as this cohort of Indigenous designers be platformed in this way, it’s incredible. “If IFA had existed when I finished fashion school, I think things would have been really different. “Like many other designers, I fell in love with fashion watching Jeanne Beker on Fashion Television,” she says.

$13B for an EV battery plant — and that's just from the fedsDuration: 04:07Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturer's Association, talks about what the massive financial infusion into a planned EV battery plant in Ontario might mean for the auto industry.