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Maya Gebala’s fifth surgery a success, reports her father. ‘Could be her last’
Tumbler Ridge shooting survivor Maya Gebala may have undergone her fifth and final surgery on Monday. Her “cranioplasty was a success!,” her father, David Gebala shared in an X post on Tuesday. The family is hoping that Maya’s hydrocephalus will subside, so she can avoid another surgery for a shunt. “Right after surgery, we were…
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Fewer people are having babies in Canada and the U.S. and the government is out of ideas
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The majority of Canadian and American women under age 40 do not yet have children, signalling a broad shift in when and whether people are choosing to have families. Both countries now face a deepening fertility crisis. For Canada, it’s stark, with the country hitting a record-low fertility rate of 1.25 children…
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Season ticket holders frustrated by Ontario’s new law capping resale prices
Ontario’s move to capped the price of resale tickets is making it harder for some season seat holders to offset the cost by selling tickets to games they can’t attend.
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B.C. Conservatives lead over NDP widens to 10 points, new poll finds
The Conservative Party of British Columbia has been without a permanent leader since the resignation of John Rustad last year, and won’t have a new head until the party gathers to vote one in at the end of May. But even in this condition it has opened a 10-point lead over the governing New Democrats,…
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‘My heart sunk’: Police chief, chaplain reflect on 20-year anniversary of Const. John Atkinson’s murder
After learning Const. John Atkinson had been shot and killed, current Windsor police chief Jason Crowley vividly remembers arriving at the scene 20 years ago and not being fully prepared for what he was about to see.
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Buying submarines instead of building them may lead to missed opportunities for Canada
One of the reasons why defence procurement is so difficult is because every decision sits at the intersection of conflicting strategic priorities for government. The realities of politics and economics cannot be easily excluded from the process, despite the potential desire to do so. Overlay onto such a compromised system a new “strategy” for building…
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Greater Toronto Area home sales up 7% in April as prices shrink: real estate board
Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area rose on a year-over-year basis for the second straight month in April, while average selling prices moved lower again.
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Canada swings to trade surplus for first time in six months
Canada’s merchandise exports rose by 8.5 per cent while imports fell 1.6 per cent in March, resulting in a trade surplus of $1.8 billion, the first since September 2025. The data, published by Statistics Canada on Tuesday, showed total exports rose to $72.8 billion in March, the highest level since January 2025. The jump was…
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Posthaste: Trump’s tariff tweak just ripped a new swathe through Canada’s manufacturing heartland
It was just supposed to simplify administration. Instead Donald Trump’s tweak to metal tariffs last month has extended the reach of his punishing penalties from a single sector to much of Canada’s manufacturing heart. Previously the United States applied a 50 per cent tariff to the percentage of steel, aluminum and copper content within a…
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Carney picks former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour to be governor general: sources
Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to name former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour as Canada’s next governor general, according to sources speaking to CBC’s French-language service, Radio-Canada.