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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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Islamic extremism & Canada’s hate plague
Canada has an antisemitism problem, but listening to our politicians, government agencies and some in the media, it’s easy to get the impression that no one really knows where the hatred is coming from or who is committing attacks against Jews. In his...
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Many Jews now seeking a Plan B
Years ago, my wife and I were out for a walk when she asked me a question that has never left me. “When did they know it was time to leave?” She was talking about Jewish communities in other countries and other eras — communities that believed they...
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FEAR WON’T FURTHER RECONCILIATION
Canada should take residential schools seriously. That means taking both truth and reconciliation seriously. But the Senate’s work on criminalizing “residential school denialism” raises a difficult question: when a country faces a painful historical...
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As antisemitism rises, a new exodus grows
The chief of cardiac surgery at the Jewish General Hospital has tendered his resignation and plans to move to Atlanta in September, citing rising antisemitism in Montreal and worsening problems with the province’s healthcare system, according to a...
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‘CANADA’S CIVIC COMPACT FAILING JEWISH CANADIANS,’ PM ADMITS
Canada’s Jewish community is being “brutally targeted” amid a crisis of antisemitism, Prime Minister Mark Carney said during a speech in which he declared the country “is failing Jewish Canadians.” Speaking from Holy Blossom Temple synagogue in...
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Federal minister pours more cold water on N.B.’S LNG idea
Canada has reached a landmark deal to export liquefied natural gas to Germany — but it’s from the Pacific coast. And federal Energy Minister Tim Hodgson has poured more cold water on the possibility of an East Coast export terminal, even as New...
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The alarming rise of ER ‘chair care’
As demand outstrips capacity, Canadian patients are being examined in Emergency Room waiting rooms, closets and washrooms due to a chronic bed shortage. ‘You, by definition, are basically kind of Macgyver-ing it,’ says one of the many ER doctors trying...
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High taxes are stealing Canadian Stanley Cup dreams: report
OTTAWA • It’s been 33 years since a Canadian team last hoisted the NHL’S Stanley Cup, a drought that looks likely to continue with the Montreal Canadiens falling to a 3-1 deficit in the Eastern Conference finals. Gabriel Giguère, an analyst with the...
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Can suicide be murder? We may never know
The British journalist’s sting that brought Kenneth Law to the attention of Canadian police three years ago played out with high cinematic tension. Chasing reports of do-it-yourself poison kits marketed through an online suicide instructional chatroom...
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Five years later, churches still burning
It’s been exactly five years since the shocking accusation that the remains of 215 students had been discovered on the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, which triggered a wave of church arsons, starting in British Columbia and spreading...
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Former employee accuses tech firm of hostility, bias
A Canadian global tech company is facing a workplace harassment probe over complaints of targeted hostility against an employee because she is Jewish. In allegations filed with Quebec’s labour tribunal, Amanda Rafael said she faced a pattern of...
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Politicians desperate to ease food costs, but are battling market forces
Call it the coriander conundrum. Like with parsley, carrots, dill and most other members of the apiaceae family of edible plants, the retail price of coriander has been growing like a weed. While the prices of many items on grocery store shelves have...
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THE ‘GRAVES’ MISTAKE
Canada has paid a massive price for the error that began in Kamloops: moral panic, diminished national pride, costly federal spending, and profound damage to attempts at reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians. Not a single confirmed burial site has...
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Russia’s Latvia threats put heat on Canadians
An extraordinary exchange with potentially dramatic consequences for Canada took place at the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday. Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s potato-faced permanent representative at the UN, told the council that his country’s...
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THE DISTINCTIVE TILT OF UNIVERSITY HONOUREES
Remember that time Stephen Harper was given an honorary degree by a Canadian university? Of course you don’t. Because it never happened. Despite leaving office more than a decade ago, no Canadian university has offered this long-serving prime...
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Jewish professor says he’s leaving Canada for own safety
At the precise moment that his book Suicidal Empathy is topping world bestseller charts, prominent Canadian academic Gad Saad has announced he is permanently leaving Montreal for the United States, citing escalating threats to his personal safety. In...
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Liberals play legal hardball over water with First Nations
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is playing legal hardball with First Na‑ tions fighting for clean drink‑ ing water — and First Nations are fighting back. Interviews and hundreds of pages of court documents reviewed by the Investigative...
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Many Canadian Jews have lost their sense of belonging in a country they don’t recognize
The U.S. charged an Iraqi national with participating in terrorist attacks against U.S. targets, including a planned synagogue bombing in New York and the European offices of two American banks. Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-saadi was charged in a...
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Muslim activist who dined with Hamas barred from Canada
A Muslim activist who has lunched with Hamas’s leadership and defended its strategy of taking hostages has been barred entry to Canada, where he was due to speak at an event hosted by the Muslim Association of Canada — a group that hosted a joint event...
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PIPELINE DEAL ON HORIZON
OTTAWA • Alberta and the federal government are looking at a fall date for when Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet will designate a pipeline to the West Coast as being in the national interest, National Post has learned. Building a...
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Where is Iran’s supreme leader?
Iran’s supreme leader’s long absence from public view has led to growing speculation that the injuries he sustained in an airstrike on Feb. 28 are more severe than the regime is letting on. In Tehran’s first public statement on Ayatollah Mojtaba...
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‘It lacks character; it lacks definition’
Canada’s proposed Afghanistan war memorial is having trouble connecting with the people it’s designed to honour: The Canadians who fought in the 12-year war. Ground was officially broken on the future site of the National Monument to Canada’s Mission...
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SUPREME COURT SET TO WEIGH IN ON HUGE INDIGENOUS TITLE CLAIM
The clock began ticking April 7 on what could be one of the most important Supreme Court of Canada cases in New Brunswick’s history. That’s the date the country’s top court told several law firms involved in the Wolastoqey Nation’s landmark title claim...
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WEEKEND POST
Detransitioners are a quiet, hidden group of people, ostracized by society, silenced by their former friends from the trans movement, and often by their families. As a photographer, I endeavour to shine light on shadows of the societal landscape. I...
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Nobody home at mansion as paranoid Putin in hiding
When Ilya Remeslo, a longtime Kremlin attack lawyer and propagandist, first turned against Vladimir Putin in March, posting publicly that the Russian president should resign and be brought to justice as “a war criminal and a thief,” the Russian...
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Turns out, cleaning up transit criminality is a popular move
After Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government announced plans this week to grant new powers to public transit special constables so that they can arrest drug users, there was nary a word of protest from the opposition parties at Queen’s...
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For next GG, a smaller stage
They did it again. It’s absolutely extraordinary. The Liberals have appointed another opinionated Type A personality from the most central realms of Central Canada as the next governor general, and it’s Louise Arbour — former Supreme Court justice,...
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Macisaac sues Google over AI sex-crime mixup
Maritime musician Ashley Macisaac is used to a rough ride in the public eye. During a frequently controversial career, the Cape Breton-born fiddler’s political views, sexuality, pre-legalization cannabis use and onstage antics have all prompted...
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Why is Washington still so angry over bans on U.S. alcohol?
It has been more than a year since most provinces banned U.S. alcohol from liquor store shelves, but the United States government is still feeling the hangover. Late last month, the issue of U.S. alcohol bans by every province except Alberta and...
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CANADA’S LOST LIBERAL DECADE
For years, people throughout the land have had a sense that something is amiss. But the governing Liberals carried on as though then-prime minister Justin Trudeau’s “sunny ways” were still a defining feature of our body politic. When Prime Minister...
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Act now: antisemitism is a global emergency
Words. Words. Words. This week, two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, a Jewish area on the outskirts of London. Former prime minister Boris Johnson called it “sickening” and asked, “What is the useless [London Mayor] Sadiq Khan doing?” The...
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Toxic drug supply amps up ER nightmare
An increasingly toxic drug supply is having a knock-on effect on Canada’s already overloaded emergency rooms, forcing doctors to balance reversing overdoses while avoiding users going into such severe withdrawal they endanger others. Illicit street...
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Oil revenue windfall shrinks Carney’s deficit
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s spring fiscal update showed a smaller than projected budget shortfall of $66.9 billion for the fiscal year that just ended, thanks to a Canadian economy that performed stronger than expected and increased personal and...
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CLOCK’S TICKING FOR CARNEY
Sovereign wealth funds are typically established by countries to manage their surplus wealth. Canada has just established the Canada Strong Fund — this country’s first national sovereign wealth fund — despite being deeply in the red. In short, there...
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MILITARY RECRUITMENT SOARS AFTER PAY RAISES, SOVEREIGNTY THREATS
The Canadian Armed Forces has recorded its highest recruitment levels in over three decades, enrolling 7,310 personnel in the last fiscal year. That’s up 600 new members yearover-year. Officials said the new numbers show strong or stable recruitment...
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WANTED: A NEW KIND OF GOVERNOR GENERAL
In a speech in May 1955, Vincent Massey, the first Canadian-born governor general (1952-1959), said true toleration was a “forbearance towards something that you do not like, or even that you disapprove of, in the interests of a greater common good.”...
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Alberta premier says it’s time to drill – in Nova Scotia
Canada’s natural gas reserves now rank amongst the Top 10 largest reserves in the world. Alberta’s 2025 reserve study proved that our province’s natural gas reserves hold 1.36 quadrillion cubic feet of gas, with 144 trillion cubic feet of recoverable...
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B.C. PREMIER’S DAYS IN OFFICE ARE NUMBERED
Though no one in British Columbia’s current NDP government will say it, it’s clear that David Eby’s days as premier are numbered. He has backed himself into a corner from which there can be no escape, despite his preference to protect his own political...
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‘I just really wanted to tell the truth. It’s very ugly’
When Hersh Goldberg-polin was in the tunnels in Gaza, fellow hostages say he often quoted a line from Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl: “Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how.’” Through his long months in captivity, family and...
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Man deemed ‘a significant threat’ gets travel pass to meet bride
Aman found not criminally responsible on three counts of attempted murder for a March 2016 knife attack at a Canadian Forces Recruiting Centre in Toronto has been granted a three-week travel pass for Saudi Arabia and Somalia, despite the fact that he...
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‘SCENARIOS ARE ALL EITHER BAD OR VERY, VERY BAD’
Grocery prices are elevated, gas prices are high, job markets are cooling, and U.S. President Donald Trump is sticking to his tariff plans while the world eyes a shaky ceasefire with Iran. The truce between the U.S. and Iran has raised hopes and...
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The evolution of one gender-care doctor: ‘WE NEED TO REASSESS’
During a recent talk at the invitation of the University of Alberta, Dr. Karine Khatchadourian offered a candid appraisal of the evidence underpinning Canada’s approach to treating gender-distressed youth. The field is in a highly consequential grey...
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By the end of the year, Canadian governments will owe: $2 , 526 , 000, 000, 000
Amid record provincial and federal deficits, Canada is hurtling towards a debt threshold it hasn’t encountered since the country teetered towards fiscal insolvency in the 1990s. As per the latest deficit projections in federal and provincial budgets,...
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Judge gives diplomat’s son racial discount
His father, a diplomat, helped him buy his first condo in Mississauga, Ont. His brother later helped him purchase a house in Hamilton and invest in several legitimate businesses. But a judge considered his race while sentencing Samir Abdelgadir for...
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JUDGE TAKES JUSTICE SYSTEM TO TASK FOR FAILING CANADIANS
An Ontario judge has launched a remarkable attack on the Canadian judiciary, arguing that the justice system is “at an inflexion point” and must decide whether to prioritize the needs of vulnerable Canadians or criminals who have abused them. Ontario...
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Israel-haters have failed to sway Canadians
Anew poll finds that support for Israel among Canadians has dropped significantly since Hamas’s October 7 massacre sparked the war in Gaza, but it comes with a silver lining: despite a hostile media, academia and a vocal minority constantly disparaging...
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FEWER CANADIANS CHOOSING TO CROSS THE BORDER — AND DUTY-FREE SHOPS ARE PAYING
Canadians still have their elbows up when it comes to travelling south of the border, and those fewer trips are having a disastrous effect on a key business: duty-free shopping. Tariff spats, Donald Trump’s “51st state” rhetoric and encouragement by...
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CANADIAN BATTLEFIELD
The joke that initially cost comedian Mike Ward $42,000 had to do with a boy known to Quebec as “Le Petit Jérémy” — Jérémy Gabriel — a regional celebrity who sang for the Pope when he was little. Gabriel has Treacher-collins syndrome. “He was kind of...
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