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There’s no denying that digital and social media have only amplified the identity politics, erosion of trust and geopolitical shifts that have polarized mankind this century. New polling by the Association for Canadian Studies shows that polarization is emerging at the interpersonal level. More than twice as many Canadians (52 per cent) think it’s getting…

Israel’s new tourism representative in Canada has arrived in Toronto with a difficult assignment: persuading Canadians that Israel remains worth visiting at a time when war, security concerns and disrupted travel have reshaped tourism to the region. Taimur Mansour, the Israel Ministry of Tourism’s director for Canada, is betting that Canada remains a promising market…

OTTAWA AND PENTICTON, B.C. — 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 cycle, Liberal party poll numbers move…

A Toronto man who argued he was suffering from cannabis-induced psychosis when he choked a seven-year-old girl three years ago while naked has been acquitted of assault charges. Ahmed Baig pleaded not guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice to assault causing bodily harm and assault by choking for the Aug. 2, 2023, attack in…

OTTAWA — NHL hockey superstar Alex Ovechkin’s support of Russian President Vladimir Putin is sparking backlash in the halls of power in Canada, but federal ministers would not say whether the player should be sanctioned on Canadian soil. “Terrific hockey player, terrible view of geopolitics,” said Justice Minister Sean Fraser on Friday, as he was…

Roughly US$1 billion in debt owed by businessman John Risley ‘s CFFI Ventures Inc. will be exchanged for virtually all of the Halifax company’s investment portfolio, bringing its six-month restructuring close to an end, after a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge approved the deal on Friday. But Justice John Keith imposed an additional condition requiring…

The New York Times is reporting that Kash Patel temporarily halted some FBI cooperation with the RCMP this month after the CBC “reminded its journalists of a longstanding policy not to refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as ‘terrorism’ without attribution to experts.” The story is attributed to “multiple officials with knowledge of the event,”…

By any measure, Beate Moore was a stunner. Old black-and-white photographs from her modelling heyday depict a lithe figure that carried her to New York from Germany in the early 1960s to work for the famed Ford modelling agency. Her plan was to stay a few months before moving home, but love intervened. She caught…

The Bank of Canada could be forced to play catch-up after the United States Federal Reserve hiked interest rates on Wednesday for the first time in three years, one economist says, while others think policymakers still have some room to manoeuvre, though the window to stand pat is closing. “We’ve actually pulled forward our Bank…

An Ontario truck driver who was caught at the border trying to smuggle cocaine from the United States into Canada — allegedly for Ryan Wedding, the Canadian Olympic snowboarder named as an international narco mastermind — was sentenced to nine years in a U.S. prison after court proceedings draped in secrecy. Iqbal Singh Virk, 58,…