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EBY’S RISKY GAMBLE
British Columbia voters headed to the polls on Saturday, closing out an unusually turbulent election period that could see the Conservative Party take power in a surprising upset, potentially unseating the province’s NDP premier following his highly...
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Tables have turned against prominent New Democrats
Right now, two left-wing campaigns in different regions of the country appear to be flaming out in similar ways. Both are NDP or Ndp-aligned incumbents. They both entered elections they assumed would be an easy win. And as their early momentum has...
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How the European left now does its shopping
Over the weekend, the supposed campaign by France’s youth for better classroom conditions took a detour through Marseille’s Louis Vuitton. Looters armed with hammers and crowbars also cleaned out Hermes and Rolex. According to one estimate, just under...
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Beautiful, proud & unruly, Alberta chooses Canada
Heading into Monday’s referendum, Alberta separatists had several things going for them. The question on the ballot was not independence, but on whether to have another vote, meaning, it should have been easier to pull in soft supporters of separation,...
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Even in peacetime, Canada’s soldiers put lives on the line
Canada is mourning a terrible tragedy at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, in Alberta, where a devastating fire that broke out during training exercises claimed the lives of four Canadian military personnel and left others seriously injured. Behind...
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AI is an ‘alien being’
British-canadian Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, often revered as the “Godfather of AI,” said AI is one of “three big revolutions where people ceased to be so important,” the others being Copernicanism — the understanding that planets revolve around...
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The moral case for Zionism
At a time when “Zionist” has become, for many, an accusation, Casey Babb’s new book, The Moral Case for Zionism, attempts to reclaim Zionism as a powerful and rational idea — one rooted, he argues, in Jewish peoplehood, historical continuity, national...
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‘Everything you do around your car, will be acquired by China’
As Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers boost exports to Canada, the country’s former spy chief warned that everything you do in or around one of those cars will be acquired by China. In a rare interview with the BBC last month, former CSIS head...
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Freeland spills secrets of last days of Trudeau
Nearly two years after her shocking resignation from cabinet that shook the halls of power in Ottawa, Chrystia Freeland is telling her side of the story of how she was about to get dumped by Justin Trudeau as finance minister. Her new book, Unreliable...
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‘I did everything for nothing’: Pearson gold heist ringleader
Amastermind behind the spectacular Toronto airport gold heist lost his share of the loot after fleeing to Pakistan, where he said he was kidnapped by police, blindfolded and tortured until he told them where he hid his gold and cash. “I did everything...
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‘The armed forces of Canada have basically been left to rot’
The radars watching over Canada’s Arctic region were designed when the Soviet Union was a country. The Royal Canadian Navy’s frigates and the Royal Canadian Air Force’s fighter jets are nearing the end of their useful lives. As Canada looks to...
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BLOCK AFTER BLOCK OF DEATH & DESPAIR
They are rolling a dying man on a stretcher out of the Maple Hotel. He looks to be about 60 years old, unshaven, wild grey curls, filthy white socks. Electrodes are patched to a hairless chest and a monitor seismographs the agonal beatings of a...
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Éric Duhaime, the man who resurrected the Quebec Conservatives
‘Plessisville is Conservative. He’s wasting his time here.” Samuel Côté, a country music DJ, and his girlfriend, Mélanie Lévesque, a social worker, were eating lunch on their porch, just steps away from where Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-pierre...
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France’s student riots unfold as glorification of terrorism
France has entered its third week of unrest, ostensibly over a lack of funding for schools. In a quest for better classroom conditions, students blockading their school in the north-central region Beaugency last week chanted along to M*R*H*, a song by...
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CARNEY SAYS HE’LL WORK WITH THE PQ
OTTAWA • Hours after the Parti Québécois was elected to a minority government, Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke with premier-designate Paul St-pierre Plamondon and promised to work with him toward increasing sovereignty for Canadians. Speaking...
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Three years after Hamas horror, a momentous election for Israel
Wednesday marks the third anniversary of the October 7 terror attacks on southern Israel — and 20 days before an Israeli election in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s record is the clear ballot question. To survey the mood in Israel, the Post’s...
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WHEN IS IT OK FOR LEADERS TO SHED TEARS IN PUBLIC?
To cry, or not to cry? In the realm of politics, that is the question. And the answer, says one University of Toronto expert, largely depends on your sex. “If you’re a woman in the public sphere, you cannot win in terms of the expression of emotion,”...
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Is this Quebec’s future?
QUEBEC CITY • “To the sovereigntists, I say this: your obsession with holding and winning a referendum harms the progressive cause and feels like psychological harassment to a majority of the population. Many voters share my view.” These words may...
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Congratulations, Canada, you will own another pipeline
Mark Carney spoke to two distinct audiences in Fort Mcmurray, Alta., on Thursday, where he announced that the proposed West Coast oil pipeline — now known as Pacific Link — has been officially listed as a project of national interest. The first was...
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‘I GRABBED THE ATTACKER, PUT HIM IN A CHOKEHOLD’
An Israeli man who was among the passengers who burst into the cockpit of a flight that had been hijacked and was falling out of the sky on Wednesday described the dramatic rescue in a widely broadcast video interview. Yaniv Hayun was one of at least...
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Eby’s American fashion statement while selling Buy B.C.
The problem with any politician who wraps themselves in the flag, as B.C. NDP Leader David Eby is doing, is that such acts must come off as authentic, or voters will see the move as a cynical electoral prop. Thus, being found wearing an American...
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Welcome to the NHL season that (mostly) shuts out fans
The National Hockey League begins its regular season Tuesday night, which means we are just moments away from confusion across the land as fans try to find the games on their televisions. Traditional broadcast homes have been abandoned. New paid tiers...
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Great Lakes bind U.s.-canada trade imperilled by Trump taris
The American Century often draws a crowd when the ship pulls into the Port of Duluth-superior to load Minnesota iron ore. Kids cheer when the captain blasts the fog horn. A voice on the loudspeaker retells the story of how the 305-metre-long bulk...
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‘YOU’RE NOT KILLING HIM’
With bullets hitting the stained glass of their synagogue, Sharlene Weitzman shielded her 19-year-old son, determined that he not be a victim of hatred. She says Canadians must fight growing antisemitism. “Stop telling us Jews that we’re overreacting.”
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‘YOU ARE GOING TO DIE FOR THE JEWS’
The suspect in the synagogue attack in Belleville, Ont., shouted “You are going to die for the Jews” before an exchange of gunfire with police, according to a video played at a police news conference Thursday. Belleville Police Chief Murray Rodd said...
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‘I am witnessing real-life miracles,’ ocer’s wife says
The wife of the police officer who was shot while stopping a gunman outside a synagogue in Belleville, Ont., has released an emotional thank you to supporters and “every scared soul” who was inside the building that night. In a message on Facebook,...
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IN ISRAEL, BELLEVILLE ATTACK LED THE NIGHTLY NEWSCAST
The following is adapted from a speech delivered by Ben Mulroney to the Jewish Federation of British Columbia in Victoria on Sept. 17. I’ve got a list as long as my arm of numbers detailing the rise of Jew-hate in Canada. But you don’t need the...
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COP FOILS YOM KIPPUR ATTACK
IComment t would appear as though the antisemites have finally succeeded at preventing Jewish-canadians from gathering to worship in peace, after shots were fired outside an Ontario synagogue during Yom Kippur services on Sunday evening. I’d say this...
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TRUMP BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP LAW COSTS CANADIANS CHANCE FOR BABY
Renee and her husband had endured a decade of exhausting efforts to start a family, including multiple fruitless treatments and medical issues that seemed to make pregnancy impossible. Then this April the Toronto couple’s ordeal seemed finally to be...
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The very big task facing PIERRE POILIEVRE
As the moon circles Earth, its gravitational pull moves the oceans back and forth, creating the cycle of high and low tides. A similar law of physics applies to Canadian politics. As U.S. President Donald Trump spins himself in and out of the news...
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Oh, look: Nicotine is back
After decades of decline, nicotine consumption in Canada is on the rise. People are smoking fewer traditional cigarettes, but alternative products such as vapes, e-cigarettes and most recently — and dramatically — nicotine pouches are taking...
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EU MAKES US AN OFFER Canada can learn from Brexit’s mistakes
The European Union on Wednesday offered Canada a unique place among its bloc of 27 nations: associate member. It’s new, novel and not the panacea that Mark Carney might sell it as, according to a British academic who has spent years studying Brexit,...
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Brits mull faux fur hats over Canadian bearskin
A cross-party group of U.K. MPS has urged the country’s Ministry of Defence to end the use of real Canadian bearskin for hats worn by the guards who stand outside Buckingham Palace. In a letter to Defence Minister Luke Pollard, 18 MPS and one peer...
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B.C.’S drug experiment didn’t change OD deaths: study
British Columbia’s contentious experiment decriminalizing fentanyl, cocaine and other hard drugs was hailed by provincial health leaders as a “vital” means of keeping people from dying from drug overdoses. It appears it didn’t. New research found no...
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ONE PROPERTY, THREE BODIES
Up until last October, a mother, father and two children lived at 572 Kelly-jordan Rd., near Smiths Falls, Ont. Then arrests were made. In the months since, a police search has unearthed three sets of human remains on the site, all related to a series...
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She won a Canadian innovation award at 16. She’s chosen the U.S. for university, and maybe her whole career.
Naila Moloo, 19, won the 2022 Canadian Youth Innovation Award at the age of 16 for creating a flexible solar panel prototype when she was a Grade 11 student at Elmwood School in Ottawa. She plans to become an entrepreneur, pursuing her own Ai-startup,...
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THE UNTOLD STORY OF CANADA’S RESPONSE, HOUR BY HOUR
This is an excerpt from Ash and Honor: The Untold 368 Minutes of 9/11, by American author Jeffrey Robinson. The book tells the story of the official response to 9/11 by North American authorities. This excerpt, drawn from multiple chapters, focuses on...
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Why American NHL stars are leaving
Hockey has entered into the Canada-u.s. trade war again. Not over tariffs on hockey sticks or President Donald Trump’s Ai-generated meme of himself knocking down Prime Minister Mark Carney on the ice, but as part of the conversation surrounding the...
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‘This won’t be easy, and I won’t pretend otherwise,’ PM says
U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to remove Canadian-origin products from a U.S. federal government procurement program on Tuesday, his first response since Canada hit the U.S. with retaliatory tariffs. “I am hereby directing the GSA (U.S....
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Canadian planes, the loonie locked in Trump’s sights
Several U.S. states will feel the impact of Canada’s retaliatory tariffs, including Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas and Maine, but Michigan could take the hardest hit, analysts say. The mitten-shaped state is most exposed because...
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How Canada’s best-known 9/11 widow became an advocate who fought for terror victims, forged new law and even changed Canada’s calendar.
Maureen Basnicki, her car stuffed with frames swaddled in blankets and bubble wrap, finally found a good spot to park in midtown Toronto just as artist John Coburn emerged from his studio to help unload. “This one is special,” she cautioned, touching...
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Commons sits empty as Carney puts EU first
When Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King reacted by immediately recalling Parliament, which was not due to sit for another month, and ask for its blessing before declaring war on Germany. On the first day...
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PM’S recruitment of Barton will please China’s Xi Jinping
There has been no greater gift to the Liberal party’s powerful pro-beijing comprador caste than U.S. President Donald Trump’s exasperating bellicosity and exhausting trade-relations vandalism. Even after nearly a decade of scandals involving China’s...
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Talks can resume when ‘throwing shade’ ends: PM
The conflict between the Canadian and U.S. government has evolved from a trade war into a war of words. After days of strident comments and insults directed at Canada from multiple U.S. government officials, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Americans...
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We may have to accept the sting of a deal with bullies
It’ll be over by Christmas. It wasn’t true in 1914, but the trade war with the United States had better be resolved by the end of this year. If it isn’t, President Donald Trump has pledged to raise tariffs on Canadian autos to 50 per cent on New Year’s...
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Breaking up is hard to do
For decades, Canadian governments both Conservative and Liberal sought greater economic integration with the United States, the world’s spendiest buyer of imports, including Canadian energy, machinery, lumber and wheat. But now, as U.S. President...
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HOW TO TRUMP-PROOF CANADA’S ECONOMY
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is under attack, bombarded by U.S. tariffs and a trade partner that moves goalposts on a whim. The federal government’s initial response was to offer short-term support for companies and workers hit by this...
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Lake Ontario America ‘e ective immediately’
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order in the Oval Office to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America” immediately. “That’s going to take place right now as I sign the order,” he said during a livestream from the White House on...
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ANNUAL CUSMA REVIEW LIKELY ‘NOT ANY TIME SOON’
Canada’s former chief trade negotiator Steve Verheul doesn’t expect formal negotiations on the review of the Canada-united States-mexico-agreement between Canada and the U.S. to happen any time soon, following the collapse of trade talks between the...
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Did Howard Lutnick kill the deal?
• Prime Minister Mark Carney told Canadians that he ended trade talks with the Americans because the gap between the two countries was simply “too wide in recent days” to strike a deal. In reality, however, sources say, it was really just one...
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THE CANADA-U.S. TRADE WAR
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian autos, trucks and auto parts, while Prime Minister Mark Carney said it would require a change in “attitude” from the U.S. to restart negotiations after trade talks...
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Encryption remains a sticking point to feds’ Bill C-22
Canadian law enforcement leaders are worried Bill C-22 has been defanged, and civil rights advocates say it has gone too far, but the federal government’s bid for “lawful access” to Canadians’ data for crime solving got a big thumbs-up from the...
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And the winner is: Canadian whisky
Jim Hedges came up with an interesting experiment in the late 1990s. His sister had bought property in Southwestern Ontario, not far from Brantford, which included a seven-acre forest overgrown with mature white oak trees. “You need to clear those out,...
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Canada tech industry warns ‘entrepreneurs are leaving in droves’
Canada’s tech industry is warning that the country continues to lose its best and brightest entrepreneurs to the U.S., an issue that has taken on new urgency as tariff threats have prompted Ottawa to try to diversify away from the U.S. economy. This...
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CANADA ‘GAVE US THE POINTS WE HAD TO HAVE,’ TRUMP SAYS
Thus ends, it seems, the most pointless standoff since the great Pig War of 1839, when an American farmer on San Juan island shot a British-owned black boar rooting in his potato patch (tensions escalated but the only casualty remained the...
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Tobi Lütke will not comply: Shopify CEO vs. Laurentian elite
Canada has a particularly robust immune system, but rather than rejecting what is harmful, the country’s Laurentian standard-bearers swoop in to attack anything that could be positive, particularly if it is not aligned with a mushy left-wing world view...
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Leafs star Tavares to appear in court to fight $8M tax bill
Toronto Maple Leafs star centre John Tavares is set to take the witness stand in a Toronto courtroom Tuesday, in a trial over the taxation of his signing bonus for leaving the New York Islanders to join his hometown team in 2018. At stake for Tavares...
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With deadline looming, trade talks hit fever pitch
Trade negotiators on both sides of the border are working feverishly to get an interim trade deal done before an Aug. 19 deadline set by U.S. President Donald Trump to impose a 50 per cent tariff on some Canadian goods. Members of Prime Minister Mark...
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Canadian colonel’s medal raises questions about U.S. war role
A medal awarded to a high-ranking Royal Canadian Air Force officer is raising questions about this country’s involvement in the U.s.-israel war with Iran. Late last month, the Government of Canada announced that Col. David K. Turenne, a former CF-18...
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A world on fire
Toronto and New York choked under orange and white skies. Madrid and Bordeaux had flames licking at their doorsteps. Vast forests, rural communities and ranchlands full of livestock in Western Canada and the U.S. have burned — and all in the month of...
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The incredible journey of MAYA GEBALA
Amid inexplicable evil, human nature is to seek miracles. Herein, the story of Maya, left for dead by a mass shooter six months ago in Tumbler Ridge, barely responsive for weeks, and then stirring a nation with her fight back. ‘She’s wide awake,...
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Court orders housing aid even for tent-dwellers
A tent should legally be considered a form of accommodation, according to the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, in a decision that could set a precedent for government assistance granted to homeless people in the province. The appellant, Jacqueline Lowe,...
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ANAND’S ‘MISINFORMED’ CONDEMNATION OF ISRAEL
The recent statement by Global Affairs Canada condemning “the ongoing violence in the West Bank” and exhorting against “the expansion of Israeli settlements” invites some analysis and clarification inasmuch as it appears to be both misinformed and...
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$160, 000, 000, 000
The United States raked in over $160 billion in gross revenue from tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act before the U.S. Supreme Court deemed them illegal in February. Given recent headlines about all the tariffs flying...
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U.S. ocials call latest attack Canada’s ‘moment of crisis’
U.S. officials are condemning the apparent arson that destroyed a popular kosher restaurant in Montreal, with some characterizing the incident as part of a broader pattern of antisemitic attacks. Illinois Congressman Paul Schneider, co-chair of the...
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RIGHTS MUSEUM’S BREACH OF TRUST
‘This exhibit is going to have a lot of people lose faith in the museum’s trustworthiness for being an honest purveyor of accurate ... information.’
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‘Fire-breathing dragons of clouds,’ in action
A wildfire near Bordeaux burned hot enough to make its own thunderstorm this week, and the lightning it threw started new fires. It was the first pyrocumulonimbus cloud ever recorded in France, but Canada has seen hundreds of them in the last...
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WORST YEAR IN DECADES FOR ANTISEMITISM: REPORT
Antisemitic attacks have reached their deadliest level in more than 30 years, according to an annual report on antisemitism in major Jewish diaspora regions around the world. In 2025, a combined 20 people were murdered in antisemitic attacks: in...
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With Alzheimer’s at 49, B.C. woman opts for MAID
A 49-year-old B.C. woman who documented her experience with young-onset Alzheimer’s disease has died after she was approved for medical assistance in dying (MAID). Rebecca Luna, a mother of two from Victoria, B.C., died at approximately 1:15 p.m. on...
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‘Brazen’ consulate shooting followed by high-speed chase
Police in Toronto are not ruling out the possibility that a “brazen” shooting at the U.S. Consulate Monday morning could be connected to the shots fired at the building nearly five months ago. The incident on March 10 was allegedly part of a...
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CBSA PLANS REVIEW AFTER $13.2M COKE CASE TOSSED
Canada’s border agency says it is considering policy changes after a Windsor, Ont., judge dismissed a $13.2-million cocaine-smuggling case over what she called “egregious” violations of a truck driver’s Charter rights. The ruling found border officers...
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‘A bad deal for Canada from the start’
We learned this week the outcome of Canada’s gunpoint renegotiation with the United States over revenue from the new Gordie Howe International Bridge, an impressive $6.4-billion cross-border span that Canada paid for and is now finally able to open for...
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