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What’s happening today
🎁 Today is Boxing Day — and for those not interested in heading to the malls in search of deals, here’s a list of what’s open, what’s closed and what’s up over the holidays.
Today’s must-read
At first glance, it was shaping up to be an unremarkable deportation case in front of the Federal Court in Ottawa.
A lawyer seeking a judicial review of an immigration tribunal ruling for his clients filed a motion to admit new evidence and obtain a time extension.
But Associate Judge Catharine Moore had a problem. She could not find some of the cases the lawyer referenced in the court filings and sounded the alarm.
It turns out the cases had been “hallucinated,” with the lawyer admitting he neglected to check the work of an artificial intelligence tool used by Canadian immigration lawyers. Erik Pindera has the story on how AI is slowly finding its way into law offices and courtrooms.
Alissa Schacter, the Law Society of Manitoba’s director of policy and strategic initiatives (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On the bright side
Dogs who’ve been cooped up in the city-run Animal Services shelter got some festive goodies on Christmas Eve from a group of canine “movie stars.”
As the shelter dogs made a beeline for the Christmas tree to sniff out the perfect gift, they surely picked up another scent — the presents had been wrapped by the canine stars as part of a video project.
The “paw parents” had trained their actor dogs to “wrap” presents, as part of a class project at Dumbledogs K9 Behaviour and Performance Center in Winnipeg that turned into a donation drive for Animal Services. Toni De Guzman has more here.
Animal Services pup Erwin checks out the gifts from Dumbledogs. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press)
On this date
On Dec. 26, 1962: The Winnipeg Free Press reported the accidental death toll across Canada over the Christmas holidays reached 113, with 70 of those being traffic-related; of the national total, eight were in Manitoba. Another mass exodus of Cubans — relatives of the Cuban invasion prisoners released by Fidel Castro just before Christmas — were due in south Florida Dec. 27; the group was around 1,000 people. Search our archives for more here.
Today’s front page
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