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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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ONTARIO THE NEW `WILD WEST' OF `SAFER SUPPLY'
Canadian addiction experts say Ontario needs to better regulate “safer supply” prescribing because unscrupulous doctors have been cashing in by opening “electronic pill mills” — video terminals where addicts can receive enormous opioid prescriptions...
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the CHINA challenge
Mark Carney has inherited Justin Trudeau's nightmare. In his decade as prime minister, one of the policy decisions that haunted Trudeau was the unavoidable question about whether to allow Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) into the Canadian market. It...
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Justified backlash to `Nakba' exhibit
Acontroversial exhibit, Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present, is coming to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in June, and at least one Globe and Mail columnists thinks concerned Jews are overreacting — except they aren't. In a recent op-ed,...
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Goal is `more autonomy,' not separation: minister
• Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette says his goal is not to unilaterally declare Quebec independence with his recently tabled draft constitution. In an interview with the National Post, Jolin-Barrette, who is also minister responsible for...
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Carney's tunnel vision on trade
Even Justin Trudeau's own former global affairs minister, the late Marc Garneau, thought his government's foreign policy prioritized style over substance — a perception that he said weakened Canada's standing on the international stage. It was to be...
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Why Canada can't back Trump's peace plan for Ukraine
Point No. 4 of President Donald Trump's plan to bring peace to Ukraine screams the quiet part about the new world order at top volume: “a dialogue will be held between Russia and NATO, mediated by the United States, to resolve all security...
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THE UNDISCUSSED TRUTH ABOUT LATE-TERM ABORTIONS IN CANADA
The belief about abortion in Canada is that no doctor will carry one out beyond 24 weeks, except in life-threatening circumstances. Secret videos allegedly taken at four clinics across the country have raised questions about the lack of rules.
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THE CANADA WE NEED BACK
I present the following thought exercise to you: if some overeager, industrious journalist were to write an obituary for Canada, how would it read? “Today, the world marked the passing of Canada, younger than most, older than some. Canada, on her best...
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AN OLD PHOTO AND SILVER WINGS REVEAL A LOST WARTIME LOVE,
Ihad looked at that picture of my mother hundreds of times as it sat on her dresser in the nursing home where she spent the last 18 months of her life in Qualicum, B.C. — a beautiful Scottish 19-year-old with dark long curls framing her face and silver...
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`Complete depopulation' of ostriches
• Crews from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency wearing hazmat suits entered Universal Ostrich Farms in B.C. to round up more than 300 ostriches after the Supreme Court dashed the flock's last chance of survival on Thursday. Supporters, who had...
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Floor-crossing MP hints more Conservatives might follow
The Liberals' newest addition to caucus, Chris d'Entremont, said on Wednesday that he was not “aligned” with his former leader Pierre Poilievre's political ideals and hinted that other Conservatives may be following his example. The Nova Scotia MP...
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WHAT AUSTERITY?
OTTAWA • After 18 months without a budget, the minority Liberals tabled their “Canada Strong” plan containing nearly $126 billion in new spending and $60 billion in savings, which they hope will convince at least one opposition party to prevent an...
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The Government is of the view that ... judicial salaries are adequate.
JUSTICE MINISTER SEAN FRASER, IN REJECTING A RECOMMENDATION THAT FEDERALLY — APPOINTED JUDGES WHO EARN SALARIES OF $410,000 — OR MORE SHOULD GET RAISES OF $28,000 PER YEAR.
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COURTING DISASTER
The wheels of justice are moving more slowly than ever and courts across the country are pleading for more judges,
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BRACING FOR A `DRACONIAN' BUDGET BY STEALTH
The Carney government tried to inoculate itself against charges of austerity on Wednesday as François-Philippe Champagne promised “sustained funding” for gender equality programs. But what the finance minister's right hand giveth, his left hand is set...
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I used more and more hot sauce, and eventually I built up a tolerance. So I'd try to find hotter sauces. After about 15 years of doing that, I was using Carolina Reaper pepper hot sauce like ketchup.
They call him Canada's King of Spice, and it's a title born of pure tastebud torture. Mike Jack eats hot peppers — the hottest peppers available, downing them in the shortest amount of time. The focus on superlatives has landed him 20 Guinness World...
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Lobby targets Zionist groups
The campaign to delegitimize the world's only Jewish state in the eyes of Canadian policy-makers and the general public has now set its sights on the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), one of this country's leading advocacy groups for Israel...
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Dismantle UN's anti-Israel commission
On Tuesday, a UN commission of inquiry on Israel will yet again present a report accusing the Jewish state of genocide. Days later, all three members will step down. Instead of replacing them, however, the UN would better serve the cause of humanity...
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A MANSION IN BAGHDAD
Mayer Lawee, an 86-year-old Montreal man, remembers a childhood in his family's elegant mansion, built by his father and uncle in the heart of Baghdad, Iraq's quixotic capital, especially family weddings in the walled gardens with its tiered fountains,...
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Hacked by Iran, activist fears `the Salman Rushdie syndrome'
AMuslim Pakistani-Canadian activist journalist who is critical of Islamic fundamentalism fears for her life after fielding two warnings recently that she's in the digital crosshairs of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Raheel Raza, a...
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CHILDREN AMONG DEAD AS RUSSIAN DRONES STRIKE MULTIPLE TARGETS
Rescuers in Kharkiv evacuate children after Russian drones hit a kindergarten during an attack that included Kyiv, Odesa and other regions, jeopardizing a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump.
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MILITARY IS FAILING RECRUITS: AUDITOR
Not only has the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) not recruited and trained the members it needs to meet its operational requirements, but the living accommodations of the existing CAF members have been found to lack basics like safe drinking water. These...
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The good news you won't hear about the Great Barrier Reef
Reading the news, you would believe the Great Barrier Reef — the aquatic wonder off Australia's coast — is on its deathbed, bleached beyond recognition by climate change. Recent headlines shouted in unison: “Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral...
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MEET THE ALLEGED NO.2 BEHIND THE VICE COCAINE SAGA
When five young drug mules, four of them Canadians and one an American, landed in Australia three days before Christmas in 2015, they weren't whisked through customs by a corrupt border agent, as they had been promised. Nor were the bricks of cocaine...
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HAMAS TIGHTENS GRIP ON POST-WAR GAZA STRIP
They blindfolded eight men accused of collaborating with Israel, made them kneel and executed them at pointblank range on a busy street in Gaza City. They sent jeeps filled with fighters to pursue the Astal militia, whose leader said it co-ordinates...
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CANADA'S LAGGING GROWTH FORECAST
A Crown corporation is forecasting that the Canadian economy will officially fall into a recession this calendar year, part of a global downturn directly linked to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policies. Export Development Canada (EDC) is...
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Couple pulled apart by terror reunited
As relief and grief flow from the release of the last living Israeli hostages from captivity in Gaza the reunion of former hostages Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or symbolically completes the circle of the hostage crisis for a watching public. The...
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Outcome reveals how Canada got it wrong
Even Donald Trump's harshest critics — among whom I count myself — have to concede that he has orchestrated a landmark deal in the Middle East that maximized American leverage. Trump declared it the “end of an age of terror and death,” which is...
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CHRISTIANS UNDER SIEGE
THE ONGOING SLAUGHTER OF CHRISTIANS WORLDWIDE — IN NIGERIA, PAKISTAN, NORTH KOREA AND ELSEWHERE — IS GREETED IN THE WEST WITH SHRUGS. ARE CANADIANS JUST AS BLASÉ WHEN BIGOTRY HAPPENS HERE?
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PEACE, MAYBE
Well, that's it then. The hostages are to be released, the Israel Defense Forces will withdraw from Gaza and the Israeli-Palestinian war is over. Except Hamas is still armed to the teeth, the IDF will remain in Gaza, and the war is not over. But there...
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MEET CANADA'S ESTIMATED DEFICIT $ 100, 000, 000, 000
It's quite a challenge to conventional thinking but Stéfane Marion is optimistic about the upcoming federal budget, even though he predicts the deficit will hit $100 billion. The chief economist of National Bank Financial has been a vocal critic of...
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FREEDOM CONVOY ORGANIZERS SENTENCED TO HOUSE ARREST
Prominent Freedom Convoy organizers Chris Barber and Tamara Lich were sentenced to 12 months of house arrest and six months of curfew Tuesday, avoiding jail time for their roles in the 2022 blockade that the federal government declared a national...
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The meteoric rise of Blue Jays' rookie hero
Before the Toronto Blue Jays' post-season game against the New York Yankees on Sunday, starting rookie pitcher Trey Yesavage told himself he'd better back up his comment from a day earlier that he is “built for this.” By the halfway mark of Game 2 of...
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How Israel lost the war of narratives
As we approach the second anniversary of the October 7 attacks, actor/activist Noa Tishby and other defenders of Israel say Hamas terrorists have won the PR battle. So now what?
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AN ATTACK THAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED HERE
Prime Minister Mark Carney rightly called Thursday's synagogue attack in Manchester, England, an “appalling antisemitic atrocity.” But we cannot be surprised at the deadly event when antisemitism has been allowed to grow so rapidly, when politicians...
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The three battles the West must win
If Ukraine falls, Israel buckles and Taiwan breaks, the world we know ends. In 2025, Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan are not just fighting their own battles — they are holding the line for a world order that has kept great-power war at bay for nearly 80...
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`An age of intellectual cowardice cloaked as moral certainty'
In the spring of 2001, the late William F. Buckley Jr., the paragon of the 20th-century public intellectual, invited me to dinner at his New York apartment. He insisted I sit next to him. We talked about Elvis Presley, the subject of his forthcoming...
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What Republicans are getting wrong about speech
President Donald Trump and his gang have always appealed much more to the authoritarian wing of the American conservative coalition than to the libertarian wing. He talks as good a game on “freedom” as any other Republican — freedom of speech on...
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FREELAND RESIGNS FROM CABINET, WILL NOT FINISH TERM AS MP
Chrystia Freeland's exit from cabinet, while not expected, is no great surprise. The job of transport minister is unglamorous, dominated by regulation of railway rolling stock and of passenger bills of rights. The minister's path is potholed with...
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Robert Munsch to opt for death via MAID
Robert Munsch, the beloved and complicated children's book author, has been granted a medically assisted death under Canada's MAID laws, though no date has been set. Munsch, who turned 80 this summer, is the author of more than 70 children's books,...
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Inside Canada's human smuggling networks
VAST OPERATIONS BRAZENLY ADVERTISE FAKE CANADIAN VISAS AND PASSAGE ACROSS THE CANADA-U.S. BORDER.
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Tennis Canada's shameful cowardice
It is entirely possible, of course, that organizers of Friday's and Saturday's Canada vs. Israel Davis Cup tennis matches in Halifax received very serious, very credible threats to safety at the event — which will carry on without fans in attendance,...
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U.S. conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot dead
Charlie Kirk, an influential American conservative speaker and activist was shot and killed by a sniper Wednesday afternoon at an outdoor event at a university in Utah. Kirk, 31, was speaking at the Utah Valley University campus. Video of the event...
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BROKEN CANADA
Walking through Boston, Mass. — where I visited in August — I couldn't help but find Vancouver, B.C., on my mind. On a rainy day in Vancouver's Gastown neighbourhood, I once walked with an umbrella tilted forwards to block the angled rainfall, my gaze...
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