LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California mayor has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government, and has resigned from her city position, officials said Monday.

Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, was charged in April with one count of acting in the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign government. She was accused of doing the bidding of Chinese officials, such as sharing articles favorable to Beijing, without prior notification to the U.S. government as required by law.

The 58-year-old was elected in November 2022 to a five-person city council, from which the mayor is selected on a rotating basis.

City manager Dominic Lazzaretto said in a news release that no city finances or staff were involved.

BRANDON — The Construction Association of Rural Manitoba has said it will cost as much as 20 per cent more to build a school in Brandon because of the labour policy introduced by the provincial government in 2025.

The regulations include prioritizing union workers when adding extra staff and paying a fee of 85 cents per worker per hour, executive director Shawn Wood said.

“We know from talking to our members: if they’re going to bid on a project, just the additional admin costs and the additional cost of that 85 cents per man hour puts them anywhere from a five to 20 per cent increase in cost,” Wood said.

“I believe the Brandon school will be closer to the 20 per cent.”

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You don’t have to be an animal rights activist to oppose black bear hunting in Manitoba. You also don’t have to trade in your ethics in order to understand biology. Most animal and nature-loving Canadians can do it all: understand science and care about animal suffering. Well, unless your paycheque requires otherwise.

Such is the case for the author of a recent article for the Free Press (Why claims of sentience can’t guide black bear policy, Think Tank, April 16), Mark Hall, who conservation-washes the killing of black bears in our province. The B.C.-based hunting advocate also conveniently failed to mention his vested interest in the issue, including that the organization he works for is funded by companies in the trophy hunting business. He also failed to follow the actual science.

The fact is, framing Manitoba’s spring black bear hunt as a conservation measure grounded in biology just doesn’t hold up. Especially since it is also marketed by local companies as trophy hunting. “During your bear hunt you will be placed over an active bear bait site (and) with a little patience and some determination you will be able to harvest a trophy of a lifetime,” states one company’s website.

Lesley Fox, executive director of Canadian wildlife protection charity The Fur Bearers, says “heralding the spring bear hunt as conservation is a public relations tactic that supports special interests, not wildlife.”