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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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A doctor offered MAID. She had other plans.
Miriam Lancaster, on the day she was offered medically assisted death in a B.C. hospital. Miriam Lancaster, 10 months later while on vacation in Guatemala.
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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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UNEQUAL JUSTICE
Lady Justice, her eyes blindfolded to highlight the ideal that justice should be applied evenly regardless of wealth, power or race, is a fitting symbol for any legal system. Yet over the past 30 years, Parliament and the courts have restored her...
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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
• 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 voted 69...
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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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WHAT WE'VE LOST
The past 10 or 15 years have not been kind to Canada. Along with a decline in prosperity has come an erosion of the things that made our society great, a decline of what held us together and made us the envy of the world: things like resilience,...
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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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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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The death of PRIVATE LIFE
By the time the Class of 2026 convenes this spring, the world will already know all sorts of personal details about these mostly 25-and-under university and college grads, things no one would have even thought to ask about the generations that preceded...
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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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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
`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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IRAN ON THE BRINK
• Five European nations have announced a new program to produce low-cost air defence systems and autonomous drones using Ukrainian expertise hard-won over the past four years of war against Russia. Friday's initiative of the E5 nations — France,...
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HEARTBREAK IN OVERTIME
MILAN • 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...
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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'
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.
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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
Dear President Donald J. Trump, on behalf of all Canadians, I would like to say: You're welcome for building you a $6.4-billion bridge. You can thank us later. We appreciate the wonderful relationship our two countries have had since we burnt down the...
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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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THE WINE WAR
Canadian wines are having their moment, thanks to a uniquely thirsty kind of patriotism. Vintners say Trump's trade war has created `explosive growth' in Canada's thriving wine regions.
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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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Danielle Smith's worthy recipe for a better judiciary Alberta judge discounts sentence for sex assault
An Alberta judge has discounted the prison sentence for a former university football player with Indigenous roots who bled profusely while sexually assaulting a woman, despite her repeated protests over the attack. An Edmonton jury found Aaron Moore...
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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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The Gripen the latest pawn in U.S./Canada power game
The petulance displayed by the U.S. ambassador to Canada is exactly what you might expect from Peter Hoekstra if he had just been informed that Canada may spend half the money earmarked for new F-35 fighter jets on the rival Swedish Gripen. Hoekstra...
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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.
Surrounded by global elites and influencers, Prime Minister Mark Carney stepped on the global stage and crystallized what many had been thinking: it's time to accept that the world order of the past 80 years has dramatically and permanently...
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COMMON GROUND
Canada’s two main political party leaders won’t boast about the connection, but they have at least one important thing in common these days: As a new session of Parliament opens Monday, they’re both facing challenges that may well determine their...
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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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SHAKEUP
Certain Canadian canola products, seafoods and even Canadians will soon flow faster to China, while Chinese electric vehicles will begin trickling into Canada virtually tariff-free, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced hours after meeting Chinese...
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WHEN KILLERS HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN CHILD VICTIMS
In 2005, at the age of 17, Michael Williams participated in the torturous murder of 13-year-old Nina Courtepatte. He lured the girl from West Edmonton Mall to a golf course with four of his friends. A member of the group hit Courtepatte in the head...
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Police chiefs raise alarm about federal gun program
Aprovincial policing association raised concerns about the “readiness” of a federally developed case management system to track the handing over of government-banned firearms, according to a letter sent to federal Public Safety Minister Gary...
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WHO CANADA IS NOW
We're getting older, having fewer babies, and losing our faith.
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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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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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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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TERRY GLAVIN.
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
A window in a church near Owen Sound, Ont., honouring Jesus and his family, with a subtle nod to Group of Seven artist Tom Thomson.
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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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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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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'
AJewish 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
Gigi and Nick are stoking a fire on the right bank of Twelve Mile Creek. It is the sunset hour in St. Catharines, Ont., but the atmosphere is damp and heavy from a November morning rain. There is not another soul in sight, down here in the riverside...
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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
ASaskatchewan 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
A10-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 says Toronto residents are “extremely upset” after mezuzahs were ripped from their doorways over the weekend. “They feel violated, that such a thing should happen literally at the door of their home,” the rabbi told National Post...
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CANADIAN GLORY
This country was built by game changers, from Wayne Gretzky redefining a sport to the scientists who reinvented the oil industry. Today we launch a series celebrating Canadian greatness, in whatever form.
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Canada drifts into darkness as the rot grows ever deeper
Toronto police and anti-Israel protesters scuffle Wednesday outside a Munk Debates event featuring prominent Israelis.
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AN ASSISTED-SUICIDE TIME BOMB IS TICKING FOR MARK CARNEY
Prime Minister Mark Carney has displayed a remarkable willingness to dismantle the legacy of his predecessor across the public policy board. In the coming months, he may be tempted to take another look at one of the more indefensible decisions made by...
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`Early on, it was very lonely,' wife says of Bruce Willis's decline
It was the return of Bruce Willis's childhood stutter that gave his wife Emma Heming Willis her first hint that something was wrong. “Never in my wildest dreams did I realize that was a symptom,” she told an audience in Toronto on Tuesday. Bruce...
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