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‘Things aren’t looking good’: Atlantic cod stocks continue decline in parts of N.S., N.B.
The latest assessment of Atlantic cod stocks in the Bay of Fundy and the Scotian Shelf shows decades of struggle aren’t over.
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CRA refunding $647 million collected from repealed digital service tax
The Canada Revenue Agency is refunding approximately $647 million collected as a result of the now-defunct digital services tax. The federal Liberals repealed it in an attempt to keep trade talks on track last summer, when U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to cut Canada off. “Before the government halted collection of the digital services tax…
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Frank McKenna pledges big money to small university
He was one of eight siblings, a poor New Brunswick farmboy who scraped his way into university and went on to a storied political career that saw him touted as a potential prime minister and ascend the highest levels of Bay Street finance. On Saturday, Frank McKenna, the former Canadian ambassador to the United States,…
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Ontario map highlights highway oddities from submerged roads to abandoned bridges
Jonathan Silverman, a first year civil engineering student at the University of Waterloo, has created an Ontario Oddities map that highlights weird things people might see on a road trip, including signs that are wrong, abandoned bridges and roadways or even submerged highways.
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‘He was the first one to call me mom,’ mother says of teen killed in Hamilton mall shooting
Nabil Askafe’s mother and father sat down for an interview with CBC Hamilton this week, days after the 16-year-old was shot and killed at Jackson Square mall in Hamilton.
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Rebel-fuelled violence derails leftist president’s ‘Total Peace’ plan in Colombia
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – On Saturday afternoon, the southern stretch of Colombia’s sprawling Pan-American highway was packed with vehicles ferrying farmers and Indigenous villagers. But soon after midday, an improvised explosive device tore through over a dozen cars and minibuses trapped in an illegal roadblock. At least 20 people were killed, with another 56 injured, making…
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Where the Bank of Canada, oil prices and your grocery bill go from here: FP Video
This week, FP Video looks at the province of Alberta switching to permanent Daylight Savings Time in an effort to support local business, we dive into Shell’s decade of energy projects across Canada, we take a close look at food inflation and what is driving the cost of living ever higher, and we ask what…
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‘I’m terrified’: Rising Canadian antisemitism unnerves gold-medal-winning Jew
It is the middle of an ordinary weekday in Toronto and Paul Rosen is fieldside, looking on proudly as one of his six grandchildren plays in an inter-school soccer game. Someone asks Rosen about his own playing days, when he starred as a one-legged goaltender with Canada’s gold-medal-winning Paralympic hockey team. And then the conversation…
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‘Kids aren’t OK right now’: Conservatives join Liberals in asking whether social media should be banned for kids
OTTAWA — As Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government weighs banning social media for minors, Opposition Conservatives have begun asking: Where does their own party stand on the issue? With a 140-member caucus, and a coalition teeming with libertarians, social conservatives, populists, free-speech crusaders and moderates, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has not yet weighed in on…
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Windsor high school student to represent Southwestern Ontario at prestigious speech contest
Public speaking is terrifying to some. But not to Ifechukwu Ezeaju, a Grade 10 student at Assumption Catholic High School in Windsor. She’s the district champ in this year’s Optimist International Oratorical Contest, which qualifies her for the regional competition in July.