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Murder victim found in Quebec decades ago identified as missing Ontario woman
Police say genetic testing has been used to confirm a homicide victim found in Quebec in 1979 was a woman who had been reported missing months earlier from Ontario.
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UCP members express love for Canada as Alberta NDP raises questions about op-ed on referendum petition
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her United Conservative government spoke of their unwavering love for Canada on Monday as the Opposition NDP accused them of harbouring a separatist.
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Just For Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon ordered to pay $880K to 8 plaintiffs in sex-assault civil trial
A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered Gilbert Rozon, the Just For Laughs founder, to pay just under a little more than $880,000 to eight of the nine women who have accused him of sexual assault and misconduct in a civil trial.
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Motorcyclist airlifted to hospital after Chatham-Kent crash, police say
The Chatham-Kent Police Service says a motorcyclist was airlifted to hospital in London after a collision with an SUV on Monday afternoon.
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Air Canada to contest $426K fine for failing to refund or rebook flyers, says notice is ‘unfounded in law’
Air Canada has been fined $426,000 by the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) for 71 violations of the Air Passenger Protection Regulations (APPR) after it failed to refund or rebook passengers during a strike by flight attendants last summer. However, in a statement to National Post the airline said the notice “is unfounded in law” and…
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Greenhouse growers taking Kingsville to court over sewer fees
An organization that represents Ontario’s greenhouse farmers is taking the Town of Kingsville to court over bylaws introduced last year that raised sewer fees for its members in the town.
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Inquest begins into death of 24-year-old Indigenous woman who died at Niagara, Ont., hospital
A long-awaited coroner’s inquest into the 2021 death of Heather Winterstein at a hospital in St. Catharines, Ont., got underway on Monday, with Winterstein’s mother telling the five-person jury about the torment she feels over her daughter’s death.
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Canada’s GDP edges higher, beating forecast
Canada’s economy grew 0.1 per cent in January, slightly above expectations, as goods-producing industries expanded for the second month in a row, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. Gains in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction, construction and utilities helped push real gross domestic product (GDP) slightly above the agency’s expectations for flat growth in January,…
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AIMCo has no plans to reduce U.S. exposure despite trade tensions, CIO says
Alberta Investment Management Corp. has no plans to pull back on either private credit or investments in the United States, despite concerns about souring loans in some pockets of the private market and ongoing trade tensions with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. In fact, negative sentiment in private credit could lead the Alberta-based…
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Posthaste: The world’s biggest stock market is ‘geriatric.’ Should we be worried?
We all know North America’s population is greying, but so apparently is its stock market. According to Owen Lamont, economist at Acadian Asset Management, the age of the U.S. equity market by some measures is nearing all-time highs. Markets, like human populations, age because of a lack of new entrants. In humans, it’s babies; in…