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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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Russia may see chance to benefit from Mideast war
For Russia, the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was the latest blow to President Vladimir Putin’s network of anti-western partners, and it exposed Moscow’s diminished influence on the world stage, from the Middle East to...
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250 YEARS OF ADAM SMITH
‘It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own...
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Tory leader pitches Canadian energy to Berlin
The German government’s posture is that they’ll have to “see it to believe it” when it comes to Canada’s promises to build the infrastructure necessary to boost natural gas exports to Europe, said Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. In an interview...
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Carney got it right on Iran. Then he didn’t
The answer to whether or not Canada supports the war on the Islamic Republic of Iran, a murderous regime that sponsors terrorism in the Middle East and around the world, has been needlessly complicated. Prime Minister Mark Carney seems to have settled...
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Spray of bullets hits synagogue as dark storm grows
There appears to be a dark storm gathering over not only Jewish communities in Canada, but Iranian-canadians who oppose the Islamic regime. Late Monday night, gunfire struck the Temple Emanu-el synagogue in Toronto, leaving several bullet holes in its...
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Across the Middle East, war on brutal regime reverberates A RIGHTEOUS FIGHT TO END DECADES OF IRANIAN REGIME’S BARBARITY
The American-israeli war against Iran’s Islamic regime is both righteous and strategically sound. Ignore the critics who clutch their pearls and selectively bray about international law. Iranians have struggled for decades to rid themselves of their...
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Is Trump running out of tariff cards to play ahead of CUSMA review?
Even the highest court in the land could not convince Donald Trump to stray from his love of tariffs. The U.S. president’s yearlong imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) was brought to a halt by the...
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The death of PRIVATE LIFE
The internet already knows so much about us, it’s naive to think we can grab that information back. And that techno-surveillance of our daily lives is likely to only get worse.
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TORIES LAY OUT TRUMP PLAN
OTTAWA • Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said trade with China is no substitute for trade with the United States and Canada should build on its leverage to secure a tariff-free trade deal with our neighbour to the south. “Canada’s prosperity and...
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Indigenous man bragged of getting Gladue ‘discount’
An Indigenous man who bragged to an undercover cop about the Gladue “discount” that would cut his penalty in half for helping to clean up after a Calgary murder has been sentenced to 61/2 years in prison, even though the Crown was looking for as much...
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FOUR YEARS OF TORTUROUS WAR, BUT PUTIN ‘HAS NOT BROKEN UKRAINIANS’
Tuesday marked four years since Russia’s invasion, with one think tank estimating up to 140,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed, including the thousands buried at Kharkiv’s 18 Cemetery.
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Dwindling options for Canadians seeking a place in the sun CANCELLED BOOKINGS AND SAFETY CONCERNS HAVE LEFT TRAVELLERS SCRAMBLING TO CHANGE PLANS
‘Don’t go to Mexico,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford urged travellers on Monday after the killing of a powerful drug cartel boss by Mexico’s army Sunday led to burning cars and shootouts with security forces in cities across Mexico — and adding to the...
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‘Secret’ meeting led to Howe bridge deal
The key piece of the puzzle that saw Canada pay the entire bill for the Gordie Howe International Bridge — thus allowing the massive project to proceed — came at a secret meeting. At least, it was supposed to be secret. In an interview with Postmedia...
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IRAN ON THE BRINK
If past behaviour dictates future behaviour, there are two possibilities concerning the outcome of negotiations with Iran: either Iran’s well-known tactics of buying time and frustrating the United States will win the day, as it did in the Obama and...
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HEARTBREAK IN OVERTIME
• They came out determined to do it their way — the play your rear end off Canadian-style, with their version of elbows up to an American team seemingly ready to assert themselves as the best. They came to prove that all may not quite be as it seems...
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The puck that stopped Canadian hearts
For as long as he has been an elite hockey player, the story of Sidney Crosby’s greatness could not be told in tangible terms like speed or strength or shot accuracy. He has those skills, of course, but his magic is in being more than the sum of his...
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‘My baby is in there ... but how much is left.’
In the intensive care unit at B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, a week after the Tumbler Ridge tragedy, Cia Edmonds is still singing and talking to her daughter, Maya Gebala, “(telling) her how proud we are and that the entire world is cheering...
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$500B defence strategy aims to build at home
Canada will spend more of its growing military budget with domestic firms and less with U.S. companies under a defence-industrial strategy that’s meant to unleash more than $500 billion in investment over a decade. The government wants to more than...
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‘SOMEBODY IS HURT, SOMEBODY IS IN DISTRESS’
TUMBLER RIDGE, B.C. • Alicia Hill knew something had gone horribly wrong at 112 Fellers Ave. when she saw a trail of shotgun shells leading up the stairs and into the living room. Hill, who lives a few doors down from 112, was exiting her front door...
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MOURNING THE DEAD, SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS
In a Facebook update in August 2024, the mother of the Tumbler Ridge suspected shooter posted a photo of rifles in a gun cabinet. “Think it’s time to take them out for some target practice,” the caption reads. If the photo is authentic, it has left Dr....
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‘IN COLD BLOOD’
Tumbler Ridge will never be the same. As a small town of fewer than 2,500 people, places like the local high school are a daily gathering place for a community in which everyone knows everyone. Both teachers and parents can see the future on the faces...
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ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
From left, the Gordie Howe International Bridge in Windsor, Ont., in December; Canada’s Daryl Watts and Team USA’S Hayley Scamurra fight for the puck during the women’s hockey game in Milan on Tuesday (Canada lost 5-0); and an electricity transmission...
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Lai sentence a test for PM’S new relationship with China
The Canadian government’s response to the 20-year sentence imposed on Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai is the first test of the government’s new “pragmatic engagement” with China. The early signs are that Ottawa is broadly in favour of the pursuit of...
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CANADA’S RACE TO BUILD NEW WARSHIPS
As U.S. President Donald Trump was lecturing Prime Minister Mark Carney and other Western leaders in Davos last month, Vice-admiral Angus Topshee was speaking to his officers about the new navy Canada is building to protect its sovereignty. In the...
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I think we should find ways to focus that energy on things that are supportive of Canada, rather than the other way around.
David Shoemaker, executive, chief canadian olympic committee, when asked about his message for canadians who are tempted to boo american athletes competing at the
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Stronach trial begins with allegations of tainted witnesses
The Toronto sex assault trial for Canadian business titan Frank Stronach, one of the country’s richest men, was pushed into unsteady territory before it even started by allegations the prosecution improperly coached female witnesses who are set to...
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Seek out the truth on Gaza
Late last week, numerous media outlets reported that an unnamed Israeli “security official” conceded that the Israel Defense Forces believes the death toll in Gaza to be around 70,000, which is in line with the number reported by the Gaza Health...
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Bill Blair’s enviable history of failing upwards
The now-burning question at the heart of Canadian politics: Is high commissioner to the United Kingdom Bill Blair’s final incarnation in public life, or does he have room to fail even further upward? Ambassador to the United Nations, perhaps? Governor...
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‘We need to name and shame’ Iran regime: multi-party group
Members of Parliament and human rights activists are demanding Canada do more to put pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran, including sanctioning its supreme leader and increasing criminal investigations into perpetrators of the regime. “We need to...
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CANADA HAS PLEDGED THE ELECTRIC-VEHICLE SECTOR $50B IN SUBSIDIES. IS IT WORTH IT?
If you want to play, you have to pay. But when that payment is in the Canadian automotive industry, it in turn pays off in building businesses across several sectors that grow a national economy and generate thousands of jobs, industry experts...
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the RATIONALIST
The nine years of Stephen Harper’s time as prime minister were very much like the man himself: Unexciting, yet reliable. The highs weren’t particularly high and the lows weren’t particularly low, but most of the metrics under Harper’s purview got...
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B.C.’S PREMIER VS. ALBERTA SEPARATISTS
B.C. Premier David Eby called it treason for Alberta separatists to ask Washington for help to gain independence from Canada. “Now I understand the desire to hold a referendum to talk about the issues you want to talk about, in Canada we have free...
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‘He understands ... this is a moment for him to deliver’
When Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre takes the stage at his party’s convention on Friday night, he will be facing two very different audiences. The first, comprised of delegates preparing to vote on his leadership, are those he must win over...
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Fen Hampson, Foreign affairs specialist, Carleton University.
The problem we face now is there’s zero respect and it’s mutual. What’s different now is that Washington is the problem: it’s gone rogue.
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‘Everyone told me I was crazy’
At 15 years old, Danny Motyka dreamed of one day opening a psychedelics drug lab. Two decades later, the Calgary chemist leads a team developing pharmaceutical-grade psychedelic compounds, operating out of a warehouse-sized laboratory in the city’s...
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COMMON GROUND
AS PARLIAMENT RESUMES, POILIEVRE AND CARNEY FACE THE SAME CHALLENGE: TO TIGHTEN THEIR GRIP ON POWER — OR WATCH IT SLIP AWAY
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‘Canada thrives because we are Canadians’
Days after a commanding speech that earned him praise on the world stage, Prime Minister Mark Carney was back in the country to hammer the values and choices that have set Canada apart for centuries — and will continue to do so, he said. He also had a...
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CANADA LIVES BECAUSE OF THE UNITED STATES. REMEMBER THAT, MARK
Among those who are freaking out about Donald Trump, no one is behaving like he’s actually a threat. Either they don’t believe their own doomspeak, or they’re too incompetent to prepare for an allegedly imminent invasion. On Wednesday, the U.S....
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PM LAYS OUT ‘BRUTAL REALITY’
One of the most sage voices on social media in these nebulous days is that of Polish academic Slawomir Debski. To those lamenting that NATO is dead as a result of Donald Trump’s intrigues over Greenland, and the imposition of tariffs on allies that...
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Showdown in Greenland could be a win for Canada
Donald Trump’s threat to impose fresh tariffs on his European allies unless Denmark agrees to sell Greenland is further proof that the world cannot afford to base policy on what the U.S. president may or may not do, and that efforts to negotiate with...
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Xi welcomes steady stream of leaders shaken by Trump’s new world order
Donald Trump’s tariff war occupied U.S. allies for much of last year. Now, Chinese President Xi Jinping is welcoming a procession of leaders looking to mend fences with the world’s other major economy. South Korea’s Lee Jae Myung kicked off the trend...
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SHAKEUP
OT TAWA • While Parliament Hill swirls with speculation about potential floor-crossings, one Conservative MP is raising his hand, but for a different reason: to assist Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government navigate the Canada-u.s. relationship. “I...
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Iranian refugee in Canada inspires viral meme
It was an iconic image: A photogenic young Iranian woman filmed herself lighting a cigarette with a picture of Iran’s leader, an evocative protest against the misogynistic clerics who run Iran. It grabbed the attention of a world captivated by the...
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‘PREPARED FOR WAR’
As the popular uprising against Tehran’s Islamic regime enters its third week, Iranian-canadians are doing all they can to show solidarity and call for revolution. Their message is clear and united: the mullahs governing Iran are illegitimate and must...
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WHO CANADA IS NOW
Canada has a demographics problem. Is immigration still the answer? Numbers can tell a story. Canada is home to 41.58 million people, according to the latest population estimates, and the average age was 41.7. At the time of the last census, just over...
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What happens next could change the Mideast
It appears Iranians have had enough of the terrorist regime that rules their lives. After nearly two consecutive weeks of protests, and the murder of over 30 people by the Mullah’s henchmen, videos circulating widely on X show that Iranians are still...
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Diehard snowbirds say ‘you can’t beat the weather’
Leslie Burns and her husband Michael have wintered in Tavernier, a small, laid-back community in the Florida Keys, since 2010. The Collingwood, Ont., couple doesn’t see themselves as tourists anymore. “We stay in a residential neighbourhood and do our...
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IT’S NOT JUST VENEZUELA, IRAN IS PART OF THIS, TOO
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Islamic Republic of Iran may seem an unlikely pairing in the effort to make sense of the world at the moment, but the dramatic events unfolding in these two decrepit kleptocracies aren’t just coinciding in...
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Will top U.S. court end the tariff turmoil?
’Tis the season for renaming — everything from a cultural hub dedicated to a beloved slain president to new destroyers to 2025 itself. No, U.S. President Donald Trump hasn’t labelled the year with his name, but his trade representative, in a new op-ed,...
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BROKEN FAITH
Seven years for fatally stabbing a stranger. Eighteen months for a string of sucker-punch attacks. Time served for a fatal swarming of a homeless man. Canadians no longer understand or trust their justice system. Chris Selley says the public, and...
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Magnetic North Pole is drifting away from Canada toward Russia
Alesser known feature of the planet Earth’s magnetic field has recently gained a special Canadian connection that is often overlooked in the better known science story about the magnetic North Pole drifting away from Canada toward Russia. The...
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Canada promised Jews safety. Instead, we face runaway hate
My name is Harley Finkelstein. I am a proud Jewish-canadian, an entrepreneur and the grandson of Holocaust survivors. I am also the son of immigrants who came to Canada more than half a century ago after fleeing Hungary following the 1956 revolution....
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Ex-oligarch loses fight to lift Canadian sanctions
Abillionaire and former Russian oligarch who renounced his Russian citizenship in the summer of 2023 has failed in his bid to get Canadian sanctions against him lifted. Igor Viktorovich Makarov’s case wound up at the Federal Court of Appeal after...
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DID TRUMP SAVE CANADA FROM BAD POLICY?
Prime Minister Mark Carney rescinded Canada’s digital services tax (DST), a three-per-cent levy on digital services revenue from large domestic and foreign businesses, in June after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to halt trade talks if the tax...
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When a criminal enterprise on the scale of Vladimir Putin’s Russia can expect to get away with invading a European country ... and fear no U.s.-enforced consequences, it’s hard to figure how any democracy’s national sovereignty is sacrosanct.
It was an ignominious end to a squalid year for the “rules based” world order. It came in the last days of the second decade of democracy’s global retreat from the advances of Russia, China and the rest of the police-state bloc in Eastern Europe, the...
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Merry Christmas
The first thing you notice at Tom Thomson’s grave in winter is the little cluster of paintbrushes bursting like flowers through the snow. Look closer and you read that it is in fact three graves, also containing the great painter’s infant brother James...
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What happened to Lilly and Jack?
Lilly and Jack Sullivan’s names grace decorations on their paternal grandmother’s Christmas tree, but Belynda Gray is under no illusion the children are still alive. Lilly, 6, and her four-year-old brother, Jack, were first reported missing from their...
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BOOM AND GLOOM
In one southwestern Ontario city, forever linked by history to all things jumbo, one of the world’s largest automakers is building Canada’s biggest factory — a $7-billion colossus expected to employ about 3,000 people. Only 50 kilometres away, in...
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the incredible shrinking CARRY-ON
When Ontario resident Cindy Mckay was preparing for a month in Europe this year, travelling with her 12-year-old grandson and living out of the contents of two carry-on bags, she knew she had homework to do. “British Airways, Ryanair, Scandinavian,”...
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FROM A STATEMENT BY AN ACTIVIST GROUP IN MONTREAL.
Three individuals, dressed in Santa costumes, joined by about 40 elves, filled multiple bags full of groceries and exited without paying, in an assumed political act.
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Newest Liberal faces questions on China stance
The surprise defection of former Conservative MP Michael Ma to the Liberals has prompted allegations of an overly close orientation to Chinese-government views, as well as protests and a petition urging him to resign. A small group of demonstrators...
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‘He was a hero ... He put himself in the face of danger’
A Jewish couple in their 60s tried to stop one of the alleged Bondi Beach attackers by grabbing his gun, dramatic dashcam footage shows. Boris Gurman, 69, and his wife Sofia, 61, were set to celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary in January, but on...
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THEY DIED BECAUSE THEY WERE JEWISH
Among the victims of the deadly terror attack that targeted the Jewish community gathered at Australia’s Bondi Beach on Sunday was a Holocaust survivor who died while shielding his wife. Alex Kleytman, 87, was at the event celebrating the start of...
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CATASTROPHE
Homelessness isn’t just a plague on big cities anymore. Addiction, danger and despair are overwhelming small towns as well, with growing fear among residents that it’s just going to get worse. Allen Abel takes a tour of the front lines of a Canadian...
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DESPITE WAR, INTIMIDATION AND BDS ... ISRAEL THRIVES
Sunday evening is the start of Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday that celebrates the victorious Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Greeks in second century BC. The menorah, lit with a jug of oil for eight days, serves as a symbol of the triumph of Jewish...
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Critics of MAID, Medicare latch on to woman’s plight
A Saskatchewan woman who got approved for a medically assisted death because of a years-long wait to receive surgery for her chronically painful condition may finally get treated. American conservative commentator Glenn Beck has offered to pay for her...
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Young mother sounds alarm on energy drinks
A 10-year-old New Brunswick girl suffered an apparent seizure after buying, and quickly gulping back, two large energy drinks, terrifying her family and spurring calls for a federal ban on the sale of the caffeinated beverages to minors. When Kayla...
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I don’t think that three years ago, anybody would dream that such a thing would happen.
Rabbi Mendel Zaltzman, after prayer scrolls were Ripped from the Jewish doors of toronto seniors at a building. apartment
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ONTARIO CITY A CENTRAL SPOT IN FENTANYL FIGHT
In an underworld of criminals, guns and deadly fentanyl, Windsor, Ont., is a national nexus. Windsor’s place in the country’s booming fentanyl trade was recently highlighted with a record-shattering 46-kilogram drug bust. The $6.5-million fentanyl...
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CANADIAN GLORY
Somewhere across this great land, someone or something great is just getting started. This country is built on gamechanging people, ideas and initiatives: Wayne Gretzky redefined a game; oilsands innovations helped us prosper; Frederick Banting...
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