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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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A much-diminished prosecution stumbles to its conclusion
Two months after it began, the controversial sexual assault case against auto parts magnate Frank Stronach is now in the hands of his judge. Justice Anne Molloy of the Superior Court of Ontario retired Thursday afternoon with two pressing questions to...
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Another Conservative MP plays with fire
The news that Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu is crossing the floor to join the Liberal caucus, effectively guaranteeing Prime Minister Mark Carney a parliamentary majority, has not been hailed universally by her constituents. “She thinks she knows...
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Humans gaze on moon’s dark side for the first time
An image released on Tuesday shows a crescent Earth along the edge of the visible surface of the moon, as seen from the Orion spacecraft on Monday. U.S. President Donald Trump praised Canadian Jeremy Hansen and the rest of the Artemis II crew as...
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THE STUBBORN, SURPRISING RISKS OF CHILDBIRTH IN 2026
Samantha Hemmings stood in the operating room entrance, watching her sister Sophia on the table. “Help me, please,” she recalls her sister saying. “I can’t breathe.” In the spring of 2009, Sophia went into cardiac arrest while undergoing a caesarean...
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Is this the best way to spend $90B of taxpayers’ money?
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said that if he ever became prime minister, he would scrap the Alto rail project, a $90-billion program announced in the final days of Justin Trudeau’s premiership that proposed to build high-speed rail between...
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MDS fight to blow whistle on health system failings
Canada’s emergency doctors are demanding better protection against administrative harassment and bullying for speaking out about dangerous overcrowding and unreported deaths in the country’s emergency rooms. Among other measures, the Canadian...
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‘A relationship of mutual respect,’ Poilievre says
Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast in Ottawa last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney ended his remarks by making a tongue-in-cheek comment to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who was sitting at the head table with him. “I know there are some...
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JEWISH LEADERS WARN OF IRAN-INSPIRED TERROR THREAT AFTER SYNAGOGUE SHOOTINGS
The Jewish community throughout North America has faced a shocking 900 per cent rise in antisemitic incidents since 2014, according to the Anti-defamation League data. Since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack in Israel, synagogues, community centres,...
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A doctor offered MAID. She had other plans.
When she was taken by ambulance to a Vancouver hospital with lower back pain the likes of which she’d never experienced, the last thing 84-year-old Miriam Lancaster said she was thinking of was “cashing my chips.” Lancaster had a fractured sacrum, a...
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Social media meets its Big Tobacco moment
Apair of successful U.S. civil lawsuits against social media giants this week could be a “turning point” in society’s larger understanding that use of their various apps is not harmless and can be damaging and dangerous, particularly to children. “For...
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The easiest way for Iranians to gain asylum: Christianity
At a downtown Vancouver church, a Christian baptism takes place during a recent Sunday service. Amid the incense and infants dressed in white getting ready to receive the holy water is a group of four Iranian nationals also waiting to be baptized. As...
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The Liberal who may stave off a third Quebec referendum
As soon as he stepped inside the café, Charles Milliard began turning heads. Among those enjoying their coffee who spotted the new Quebec Liberal Party leader as he made his way through Café Hubert Saint-jean, located in the province’s Eastern...
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Notwithstanding clause under attack
There is an important constitutional conference going on in Ottawa this week. Haven’t heard about it? Don’t feel badly. Neither have most provincial governments, which stand to lose one of the most important powers they acquired with the adoption of...
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CANADA’S LANGUAGE WATCHDOG TRIPPED OVER A DOG’S TAIL ...
It was not Ai-generated, computer-translated from English or the work of anglophones. The Valentine’s Day message was written by real, live francophones — and, yes, they knew some would read it as a reference to part of the male anatomy. Internal...
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DEB TATE, — ON HER GREY CAT NAME: LOUIS FULL VUITTON — WHO IS A FREQUENT BORDER-HOPPER.
A certain resident of South Surrey, B.C., is making friends and fans on both sides of the U.s.-canada border for a reason that doesn’t generally make people happy — he crosses the international boundary frequently and flagrantly, with no regard for...
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Mcguinty shifts story on what he knew, when
Defence Minister David Mcguinty now says he was briefed immediately after an Iranian strike hit a base in Kuwait where members of the Canadian Armed Forces were stationed, the government’s first admission that it had knowledge of the base attack before...
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PUSHBACK ON MAID
LONDON • Lawmakers in the Scottish Parliament, some fighting tears, rejected legislation that would have made Scotland the first part of the United Kingdom to legalize assisted dying for the terminally ill. Members of the Edinburgh-based legislature...
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LIBERALS PRESSED TO BAN ‘GLORIFICATION’ OF TERRORISM
With the Liberals’ anti-hate bill set to return to the House of Commons next week, major Jewish advocacy groups are pressing the federal government to take action against what they see as the glorification and promotion of terrorism. Canada’s criminal...
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IN SIR JOHN A.’s HOMETOWN, 71% WANT STATUE RESTORED
No prophet is accepted in his hometown and great men are sometimes rejected by their country. Canada’s first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, the Father of Confederation and the man who built the Canadian Pacific Railway, has been much maligned,...
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DEFENCE OFFICIAL INTRIGUED BY ANTI-DRONE SYSTEM FROM TRIO AT HEART OF ONTARIO EXPLOSIVES TRIAL
Asenior official at the Department of National Defence says he wants to learn more about the anti-drone system three men charged in an Ontario gun and explosives investigation are working on, once their legal problems are resolved. But developing...
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YEAR ONE
In a federal election last spring that was widely viewed as a watershed in Canadian politics, Mark Carney’s Liberals came back from the political dead to upend a Conservative lead of more than 20 percentage points. Although a political neophyte, many...
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Ambassador calls Canada a global centre of antisemitism
The Israeli ambassador to Canada called the country “one of the centres of antisemitism globally” during a visit to a Thornhill, Ont., synagogue that was shot at last week. While Ambassador Iddo Moed noticed “a rising trend in antisemitism” following...
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OTTAWA MUST END THE ANTISEMITIC DISORDER
Following the targeted shootings of three Toronto-area synagogues last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney said the federal government would use “every tool available to confront antisemitic violence and hatred.” If the Liberals are serious about tackling...
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CBC accused of ‘tokenism masquerading as diversity’
Former CBC journalist Travis Dhanraj told MPS Tuesday he was silenced, bullied and intimidated by senior leadership and hosts at the public broadcaster, which he says needs a “wake-up call.” Dhanraj, who worked at the CBC until his public and fiery...
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Carney’s credibility faces friendly-fire in the war with Iran
It is progress that the Prime Minister’s Office is now letting Canadians know when Mark Carney speaks with President Donald Trump, but it would be much better if the readout that followed didn’t subtract from the sum of human knowledge. The PMO said...
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