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Two First Nations chiefs are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to apologize for saying he could “outlast” protesters. Chrissy Isaacs, a Grassy Narrows woman suffering from mercury poisoning, was in Toronto on Monday to demand compensation from the provincial government for mercury contamination in her community.

When American sociologist and economist Herbert A. Simon first introduced the idea of the attention economy in 1971 , the model was based on the “information-rich” mediums of the day — television, radio and print. Boiled down, the theory posits that in a world with more and more information for humans to digest, the scarcity…

OTTAWA — The federal government says more than 67,000 guns have been registered to be turned in for compensation under its program for banned weapons.  Public Safety Canada announced the figure on Wednesday, one day after the compensation window, which opened in mid-January, closed for owners of the more than 2,500 makes and models of…

Scammers are sending phishing texts attempting to leverage a $500 million bread price-fixing settlement by asking for personal details such as name, address, date of birth, and credit or debit card information, says the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre . Toronto police have also warned that unsolicited texts about the settlement should be deleted. The messages try…

It’s “ridiculous” for the Alberta NDP to charge that the UCP is opening the door to “cheating and election rigging” in the way it’s approaching the Alberta electoral boundaries commission’s final report, says the provincial justice minister.

The Bank of Canada debated the impact soaring oil prices stemming from the war in Iran could have on inflation ahead of their most recent interest rate decision, with some governors concerned that a near-term increase would raise inflation risks over a longer period. A summary of deliberations by the central bank’s governing council, which…

Disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard has filed a lawsuit against a long list of defendants — including a woman who accused him of sexual assault and Manitoba’s former attorney general — alleging he was defamed and suffered as a result of what he describes as an abuse of process surrounding his prosecution in Winnipeg.

If your dog goes crazy every time the mail delivery person shows up at your door, you may be relieved to know that it soon may no longer be a problem. But beyond that, a lot of people are uncertain what the pending demise of door-to-door mail delivery means for them.

Maya Gebala, a 12-year-old injured in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting, has been moved out of intensive care and into a “recovery and rehab-focused unit” at B.C. Children’s Hospital, according to her father.

A 30-year-old man has been found guilty of manslaughter – not murder – in the shooting death of his ex’s boyfriend in broad daylight.