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The bill, touted by supporters as the first of its kind, now goes to Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul for consideration.

Candidates competing to lead the federal Conservatives traded barbs over contentious language laws, inflation and the trucker convoy in the race's only French-language debate on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, night, with Pierre Poilievre finding himself on the defensive through parts of the evening.

The fall of Jason Kenney, a juggernaut of conservatism in Canada, has prompted many federal Tories to consider the future of the party, which is in the midst of being decided in a leadership race seen as a fractious fight for its soul.

Ed Fast is no longer the Conservative finance critic, interim party leader Candice Bergen says.

Is the Conservative Party of Canada going to elect a wise person as their next leader, asks columnist Max Fawcett, or fall for Pierre Poilievre’s infomercial sales pitch?

Candidates vying for the Conservative leadership framed the country — and the party — as deeply divided at the first official debate on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, and took turns pointing fingers at one rival they accuse of driving disunity in the race.

For the past year a company that “mines” cryptocurrency had what seemed the ideal location for its thousands of power−thirsty computers working around the clock to verify bitcoin transactions: the grounds of a coal−fired power plant in rural Montana.

Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner says she hopes her bill to help grow the cryptocurrency sector will get Canadian legislators talking about it in a non-polarized way.

From data centre warehouses to cryptocurrency, technology is another energy hog.

Bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies offer a window into how a form of money is created and how it acquires value.

The Ontario government says it has successfully petitioned a court to freeze access to millions of dollars donated through online fundraising platform GiveSendGo to the convoy protesting COVID-19 restrictions in Ottawa and at several border crossings.

Emiliano Grodzki moves his right hand across the front of a series of small, rectangular machines, each fitted with a fan blowing warm air inside a former metal factory in Quebec's Eastern Townships.

Less than three months after one of Canada's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges was shut down amid a swirl of controversy, a bid to restructure Vancouver-based QuadrigaCX has failed and the virtual company has officially entered bankruptcy proceedings.

The high-profile search for $190 million in missing cryptocurrency owed to users of the beleaguered QuadrigaCX trading platform has turned up a small amount of digital assets, but the intrigue surrounding the case deepened on Friday, March 1, 2019, as investigators pointed to a series of transactions they can't explain.

The widow of QuadrigaCX CEO Gerald Cotten says a chief restructuring officer should be appointed to oversee what remains of the insolvent cryptocurrency trading platform, saying her role as director has drawn "unwanted" online commentary suggesting she is trying to hide assets.