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PARIS -- French activists fear that a proposed new security law will deprive them of a potent weapon against abuse -- cellphone videos of police activity -- threatening their efforts to document possible cases of police brutality, especially in impoverished immigrant neighbourhoods. Source

If there's one thing Sheila Levy-Bencheton took for granted, it's that the safety deposit box her father rented from a big bank was secure. That's until her dad passed away in 2017 at age 103. The Toronto woman went to TD Canada Trust to empty the box a few months later, and discovered the bank had already done it years ago — forcing it open by drilling the lock then emptying the contents. Source

British Columbia's health minister has ordered an immediate review of alleged misspending by the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) during the COVID-19 crisis. The order comes after CBC News brought forward concerns raised by multiple sources with intimate knowledge of operations within the PHSA, which is charged with ensuring access to a provincial network of health-care services. Source

The Niagara Falls of news releases into any journalist's in-box attest that there is always plenty of contention for the moving spotlight of media attention. As early as March of this year, the Pew Research Institute, a think-tank that studies media trends, observed that people had become "immersed in COVID-19 news. Source

The federal government will release its long-awaited fiscal update today — a spending plan to help Canadians cope with COVID-19 while recharging the national economy and key sectors battered by the global crisis. Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will rise in the House of Commons at 4 p.m. Source

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND -- New Zealand authorities filed safety violation charges on Monday against 10 organizations and three individuals after a volcanic eruption at White Island last year killed 22 people. The island had been a popular tourist destination before the Dec. Source

COLOMBO, SRI LANKA -- Six inmates were killed and 35 others were injured when guards opened fire to control a riot at a prison on the outskirts of Sri Lanka's capital, officials said Monday. Two guards were critically injured, they said. Source

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is expected in the coming days to name several of his most senior economic advisers, a group that includes several liberal economists and policy specialists who established their credentials during the previous two Democratic administrations. Source

TEHRAN, IRAN -- Iran has begun a funeral for a recently killed scientist who founded the Islamic Republic's military nuclear program in the early 2000s. State TV broadcast the ceremony Monday showing the casket of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Source

TEHRAN, IRAN -- Iran held a funeral service Monday for the slain scientist who founded its military nuclear program two decades ago, with the Islamic Republic's defence minister vowing to continue the man's work "with more speed and more power. Source