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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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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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