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Canadian planes, the loonie locked in Trump’s sights
Several U.S. states will feel the impact of Canada’s retaliatory tariffs, including Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas and Maine, but Michigan could take the hardest hit, analysts say. The mitten-shaped state is most exposed because...
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How Canada’s best-known 9/11 widow became an advocate who fought for terror victims, forged new law and even changed Canada’s calendar.
Maureen Basnicki, her car stuffed with frames swaddled in blankets and bubble wrap, finally found a good spot to park in midtown Toronto just as artist John Coburn emerged from his studio to help unload. “This one is special,” she cautioned, touching...
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Commons sits empty as Carney puts EU first
When Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King reacted by immediately recalling Parliament, which was not due to sit for another month, and ask for its blessing before declaring war on Germany. On the first day...
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PM’S recruitment of Barton will please China’s Xi Jinping
There has been no greater gift to the Liberal party’s powerful pro-beijing comprador caste than U.S. President Donald Trump’s exasperating bellicosity and exhausting trade-relations vandalism. Even after nearly a decade of scandals involving China’s...
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Talks can resume when ‘throwing shade’ ends: PM
The conflict between the Canadian and U.S. government has evolved from a trade war into a war of words. After days of strident comments and insults directed at Canada from multiple U.S. government officials, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Americans...
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We may have to accept the sting of a deal with bullies
It’ll be over by Christmas. It wasn’t true in 1914, but the trade war with the United States had better be resolved by the end of this year. If it isn’t, President Donald Trump has pledged to raise tariffs on Canadian autos to 50 per cent on New Year’s...
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Breaking up is hard to do
For decades, Canadian governments both Conservative and Liberal sought greater economic integration with the United States, the world’s spendiest buyer of imports, including Canadian energy, machinery, lumber and wheat. But now, as U.S. President...
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HOW TO TRUMP-PROOF CANADA’S ECONOMY
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is under attack, bombarded by U.S. tariffs and a trade partner that moves goalposts on a whim. The federal government’s initial response was to offer short-term support for companies and workers hit by this...
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Lake Ontario America ‘e ective immediately’
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order in the Oval Office to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America” immediately. “That’s going to take place right now as I sign the order,” he said during a livestream from the White House on...
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ANNUAL CUSMA REVIEW LIKELY ‘NOT ANY TIME SOON’
Canada’s former chief trade negotiator Steve Verheul doesn’t expect formal negotiations on the review of the Canada-united States-mexico-agreement between Canada and the U.S. to happen any time soon, following the collapse of trade talks between the...
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Did Howard Lutnick kill the deal?
• Prime Minister Mark Carney told Canadians that he ended trade talks with the Americans because the gap between the two countries was simply “too wide in recent days” to strike a deal. In reality, however, sources say, it was really just one...
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THE CANADA-U.S. TRADE WAR
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian autos, trucks and auto parts, while Prime Minister Mark Carney said it would require a change in “attitude” from the U.S. to restart negotiations after trade talks...
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Encryption remains a sticking point to feds’ Bill C-22
Canadian law enforcement leaders are worried Bill C-22 has been defanged, and civil rights advocates say it has gone too far, but the federal government’s bid for “lawful access” to Canadians’ data for crime solving got a big thumbs-up from the...
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And the winner is: Canadian whisky
Jim Hedges came up with an interesting experiment in the late 1990s. His sister had bought property in Southwestern Ontario, not far from Brantford, which included a seven-acre forest overgrown with mature white oak trees. “You need to clear those out,...
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Canada tech industry warns ‘entrepreneurs are leaving in droves’
Canada’s tech industry is warning that the country continues to lose its best and brightest entrepreneurs to the U.S., an issue that has taken on new urgency as tariff threats have prompted Ottawa to try to diversify away from the U.S. economy. This...
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CANADA ‘GAVE US THE POINTS WE HAD TO HAVE,’ TRUMP SAYS
Thus ends, it seems, the most pointless standoff since the great Pig War of 1839, when an American farmer on San Juan island shot a British-owned black boar rooting in his potato patch (tensions escalated but the only casualty remained the...
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Tobi Lütke will not comply: Shopify CEO vs. Laurentian elite
Canada has a particularly robust immune system, but rather than rejecting what is harmful, the country’s Laurentian standard-bearers swoop in to attack anything that could be positive, particularly if it is not aligned with a mushy left-wing world view...
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Leafs star Tavares to appear in court to fight $8M tax bill
Toronto Maple Leafs star centre John Tavares is set to take the witness stand in a Toronto courtroom Tuesday, in a trial over the taxation of his signing bonus for leaving the New York Islanders to join his hometown team in 2018. At stake for Tavares...
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With deadline looming, trade talks hit fever pitch
Trade negotiators on both sides of the border are working feverishly to get an interim trade deal done before an Aug. 19 deadline set by U.S. President Donald Trump to impose a 50 per cent tariff on some Canadian goods. Members of Prime Minister Mark...
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Canadian colonel’s medal raises questions about U.S. war role
A medal awarded to a high-ranking Royal Canadian Air Force officer is raising questions about this country’s involvement in the U.s.-israel war with Iran. Late last month, the Government of Canada announced that Col. David K. Turenne, a former CF-18...
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A world on fire
Toronto and New York choked under orange and white skies. Madrid and Bordeaux had flames licking at their doorsteps. Vast forests, rural communities and ranchlands full of livestock in Western Canada and the U.S. have burned — and all in the month of...
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The incredible journey of MAYA GEBALA
Amid inexplicable evil, human nature is to seek miracles. Herein, the story of Maya, left for dead by a mass shooter six months ago in Tumbler Ridge, barely responsive for weeks, and then stirring a nation with her fight back. ‘She’s wide awake,...
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Court orders housing aid even for tent-dwellers
A tent should legally be considered a form of accommodation, according to the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, in a decision that could set a precedent for government assistance granted to homeless people in the province. The appellant, Jacqueline Lowe,...
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ANAND’S ‘MISINFORMED’ CONDEMNATION OF ISRAEL
The recent statement by Global Affairs Canada condemning “the ongoing violence in the West Bank” and exhorting against “the expansion of Israeli settlements” invites some analysis and clarification inasmuch as it appears to be both misinformed and...
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$160, 000, 000, 000
The United States raked in over $160 billion in gross revenue from tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act before the U.S. Supreme Court deemed them illegal in February. Given recent headlines about all the tariffs flying...
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U.S. ocials call latest attack Canada’s ‘moment of crisis’
U.S. officials are condemning the apparent arson that destroyed a popular kosher restaurant in Montreal, with some characterizing the incident as part of a broader pattern of antisemitic attacks. Illinois Congressman Paul Schneider, co-chair of the...
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RIGHTS MUSEUM’S BREACH OF TRUST
‘This exhibit is going to have a lot of people lose faith in the museum’s trustworthiness for being an honest purveyor of accurate ... information.’
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‘Fire-breathing dragons of clouds,’ in action
A wildfire near Bordeaux burned hot enough to make its own thunderstorm this week, and the lightning it threw started new fires. It was the first pyrocumulonimbus cloud ever recorded in France, but Canada has seen hundreds of them in the last...
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WORST YEAR IN DECADES FOR ANTISEMITISM: REPORT
Antisemitic attacks have reached their deadliest level in more than 30 years, according to an annual report on antisemitism in major Jewish diaspora regions around the world. In 2025, a combined 20 people were murdered in antisemitic attacks: in...
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With Alzheimer’s at 49, B.C. woman opts for MAID
A 49-year-old B.C. woman who documented her experience with young-onset Alzheimer’s disease has died after she was approved for medical assistance in dying (MAID). Rebecca Luna, a mother of two from Victoria, B.C., died at approximately 1:15 p.m. on...
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‘Brazen’ consulate shooting followed by high-speed chase
Police in Toronto are not ruling out the possibility that a “brazen” shooting at the U.S. Consulate Monday morning could be connected to the shots fired at the building nearly five months ago. The incident on March 10 was allegedly part of a...
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CBSA PLANS REVIEW AFTER $13.2M COKE CASE TOSSED
Canada’s border agency says it is considering policy changes after a Windsor, Ont., judge dismissed a $13.2-million cocaine-smuggling case over what she called “egregious” violations of a truck driver’s Charter rights. The ruling found border officers...
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‘A bad deal for Canada from the start’
We learned this week the outcome of Canada’s gunpoint renegotiation with the United States over revenue from the new Gordie Howe International Bridge, an impressive $6.4-billion cross-border span that Canada paid for and is now finally able to open for...
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Doctors consider ‘death by organ donation’ for MAID patients
Anew paper is reviving the idea of “death by organ donation” — retrieving organs from MAID patients while they are sedated and unconscious but still alive. Current law prohibits it, due to the long-standing dead donor rule, or DDR, which holds that...
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CARNEY IN A TIGHT SPOT
WASHINGTON • The Trump administration’s announcement of a new round of tariffs on Canadian goods may be less of a reprisal over trade barriers and more about gaining leverage in CUSMA negotiations, trade watchers suggest. Whether the measures are...
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‘WE WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES,’ PM VOWS AS TRADE WAR INTENSIFIES
Prime Minister Mark Carney inflicted a damaging blow on Canada-u.s. relations with his Elbows Up shenanigans but this past weekend it was America’s turn take a hammer to the alliance. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was openly gloating at the prime...
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CUSMA not dead yet: Canada has a lot to o er U.S.
Is it still possible to be optimistic about negotiations for the Canada-u.s.-mexico Agreement after Washington passed on the July 1 deadline to renew? Falak Kothari is. And as managing director focused on the manufacturing and auto industries for risk...
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Internal trade barriers still costing Canada: CFIB
Aleading business group is giving some provinces and the federal government good grades for trying to break down Canada’s costly internal trade obstacles, even as those barriers continue to cost Canadians billions of dollars a year. In its annual...
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Chief shares account of her First Nation’s dramatic escape from the flames.
Chief Helen Paavola was on a plane to Ottawa when the fire reached her community. She spent the morning calling for help and was told the smoke was coming from a wildfire that was still at a safe distance. Before long, the fire was on top of the...
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‘Canadians ... have had enough of paying more to receive less’
Anew poll has revealed that 70 per cent of Canadians think their high tax bill reduces their standard of living, while the majority of respondents also feel they pay too much in taxes and government subsidies are not worth the cost. The poll, which...
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On opposite sides of toll deal
The U.S. and Canada are presenting different accounts of a profit-sharing deal President Donald Trump agreed to that permits a new bridge connecting Michigan and Ontario to open on July 27. The White House and the government of Prime Minister Mark...
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SCENES FROM A TORONTO IN DECLINE
What if Canada’s largest city started shrinking, and it wasn’t all that huge an issue, even with a municipal election just months away? This is the odd situation in which Toronto, forever caught between aspiring to and boasting of “world class” status,...
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One law for First Nations, another for everyone else
There are two kinds of lobster trappers in St. Mary’s Bay, Nova Scotia: the non-indigenous ones who have to abide by federal law, and the Indigenous ones who apparently don’t. The Liberal approach to governing the fishery has bred tension and violence...
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Spending needed for ‘growth,’ minister says
The federal government plans to pay for its recent big-ticket spending through a combination of economic growth and deficit increases, Finance Minister François-philippe Champagne says. Prior to officially kicking off the government’s pre-budget...
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THE TERRIFYING RISE OF THE BISHNOI GANG IN CANADA
On May 4, a gunman strolled casually into a business complex in Surrey, B.C., in broad daylight and shot Gurvikramjeet Singh Warring, an Indian immigrant who was renting an office space there. Warring, as the CBC’S Fifth Estate would later report,...
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CONSERVATIVES AT A CROSSROADS
The Conservative party faces the problem of a changing country, not a change in ethnic diversity or gender identity, but a change in age brackets. In fact, the electorate is aging out of their preferred conservatism, and they are not getting any...
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PM backs U.S. strikes on Iran, Trump warns more to come
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Washington responded “as appropriate” to Tehran’s attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, declared that the ceasefire with Iran’s “cuckoo” leaders is “over” and threatened further...
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Sisters symbols of freedom in brutal, emboldened Iran
Mandana and Mahsa Sotoudeh are free now. That’s the good news. It’s bittersweet, all the same. Last Wednesday morning, without any explanation, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ intelligence forces released 38-year-old Mandana and her...
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Hamas powers up after Carney’s big mistake
The obvious problem with rewarding terrorists is that they tend to take advantage. So it is with Hamas. Almost a year ago, Mark Carney signalled his intention to recognize the state of “Palestine” and since then Hamas has: grown stronger; rearmed;...
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Oland murder still open 15 years later
For those who were in the packed, fifth-floor courtroom of the Saint John Law Courts on Dec. 19, 2015, it was a scene that cannot be forgotten. Dennis Oland, on trial for the second-degree murder of his dad, Richard, stood next to one of his defence...
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SIBLING RIVALRY
The United States of America turns 250 today, and Canadians can celebrate a long, remarkable alliance while chafing at our growing conflicts. Our anti-american streak is only getting stronger, with a new poll revealing we have a far more negative view...
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KYIV SHAKEN BY WORST DAY OF WAR YET
When 17-year-old Karolina Shevchuk’s phone warned a Russian missile was headed toward her district of Kyiv, she decided against seeking shelter, choosing instead to stay in her apartment. It was only when she went outside to look for her cat and a...
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Iranian embassy a dangerous proposition
The suggestion last week by Prime Minister Mark Carney that Canada should consider reopening an embassy in the Islamic Republic of Iran for the sake of “engagement” could lead to dangerous results. Reopening embassies are not one-way streets. If Iran...
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How this man became Canada’s favourite arrogant American
When Jesse Marsch was the head coach of one of the biggest football clubs in northern England, supporters there were quick to give him a nickname: Ted Lasso. It was not intended as a compliment. Leeds United fans were not comparing Marsch to the...
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‘The war .on drugs made an error’
It took Corey Tochor three years to get to this point. The Conservative MP turned heads on Parliament Hill when, in the midst of the House of Commons’ final dizzying days of passing legislation before adjourning for the summer, he emerged with an...
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DOMINION of FREEDOM
While Canadians are a patriotic lot, one in four are not overly confident in the country’s long-term future, according to a new Postmedia-leger poll. The survey found that 15 per cent of Canadians do not think Canada “with its current borders and...
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PM ghosts Israeli ambassador over ‘Nakba’ exhibit concerns
The National Post has learned that Prime Minister Mark Carney has not responded to a letter sent more than a week ago by Israel’s ambassador to Canada, outlining his concerns about the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ “Nakba” exhibit, which is slated...
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Canada lives to play another day at World Cup, despite 2-1 loss
Canada, in white, pushed hard till the end, but fell 2-1 to Switzerland in their World Cup showdown in Vancouver Wednesday. Still, Canada finished second in its group and advances to the knockout round.
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A GUNMAN’S LONG TRAIL OF ROILING RESENTMENTS
On Monday, in Montreal’s Côte-des-neiges neighbourhood, 25-year-old Seth Hatfield of Lethbridge, Alta., is alleged to have carried out a shooting that resulted in the deaths of an officer and a civilian before he was fatally shot by police. Initial...
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‘SHOOTING IN ALL DIRECTIONS’: MELÉE CLAIMS POLICE, CIVILIAN
Adramatic shootout between police and an armed man in a busy Montreal neighbourhood left three people dead Monday morning, including a police officer, a civilian and the alleged shooter himself. A second officer was shot but expected to survive....
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MILITARY POLICE WARNED ABOUT OFFICER’S CLAIMS OF ACCESS TO ANAND AND MRIYA AID CONNECTION
A Canadian Forces officer in charge of a private organization raising funds for Ukraine told a civilian she not only had access to then-defence minister Anita Anand, but suggested she may be able to shape how federal government funds were spent on the...
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Stronach, 93, convicted
Frank Stronach, the auto parts billionaire accused of preying on young women at the Toronto nightclub he owned in the 1980s and pressuring them into his condo for sex against their will, is guilty of one count of sexual assault and one of indecent...
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THE BRUTALITY & BANALITY OF 14-YEAR-OLD KILLER.
Eleanor Doney, 83, was raking leaves in front of her home on Lynn Heights Drive in Pickering, just east of Toronto, on May 29, 2025. For anyone leaving that dense suburban subdivision, her red brick house with a wide porch and double garage is the last...
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Space X IPO sends Ontario teachers’ pension soaring
In one of the more notable ironies of Spacex’s multitrillion-dollar initial public offering, one of Canada’s greatest beneficiaries of the launch is a demographic ideologically opposed to a lot of what CEO Elon Musk stands for. A major early investor...
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‘Tide is turning,’ Carney tells Zelenskyy at G7
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a fresh round of sanctions against Russia on Tuesday, telling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that a Ukrainian victory in the four-year conflict is not in doubt. “The tide is turning as expected in this...
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In Canadian first, Yukon creates race-based parking
As part of their stated commitment to “decolonization and Indigenization” in health care, the Yukon is debuting Indigenous-only parking spaces at all three of its hospitals. In a social media post last week, Yukon Hospitals announced that the...
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How lax border policies fostered one of Canada’s most dangerous gangs
At the immigration hearing for an accused Indian gangster earlier this month, an Edmonton police officer attempted to illustrate the scale of the criminal operation that law enforcement was now dealing with. The hearing concerned Jashandeep Singh, an...
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‘THEY’RE ABSOLUTELY FRINGE’
Most Iranian-canadians want regime change in Iran, but not the group that purports to represent the diaspora in Canada.
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Police officer slain in raid tied to U.S. consulate shooting.
A Toronto police officer was killed early Thursday morning during a raid on an apartment building tied to an investigation into the American consulate shooting. “It is with deep and profound sorrow that I must confirm the death of Police Constable Marc...
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From an MBA to killer to freedom
The schizophrenic woman who committed a notorious killing of an innocent stranger in a downtown Toronto Shoppers Drug Mart more than 10 years ago has been granted an absolute discharge, freeing her entirely from the restrictions of the justice...
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Carney government to ban social media for children under 16
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is expected to table its long-awaited legislation aimed at online safety this week, including a ban on social media platforms for children under 16 years old. A government official, speaking on the condition of...
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Housing prices would be 10% lower if Canada had kept pace with U.S.: CMHC
Canada’s housing stock would be about 30 per cent larger and prices 10 per cent lower if this country’s building industry had been as responsive to demand as its American counterpart over the last couple of decades, says a new report from the federal...
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