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U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample
American lawmakers are demanding answers from the Trump administration after a Canadian man says U.S. customs officers held him for three hours and forced him to provide a DNA sample before sending him home.
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Poilievre applauds J.K. Rowling’s comment about Olympic ban of trans athletes from women’s sports
Pierre Poilievre has applauded J.K. Rowling’s social media response to the International Olympic Committee’s new policy prohibiting transgender women from competing in women’s sports. She posted a photo on X of boxer Imane Khelif and pointed to the controversy that erupted during the 2024 Paris Olympics over transgender women participating in women’s boxing. “Today’s ruling…
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Wab Kinew’s advice for the next NDP leader: ‘Win’
OTTAWA — Manitoba NDP premier and hometown boy Wab Kinew had a pithy message for the next leader of the federal NDP when delivering opening remarks at the party’s national convention in Winnipeg. “(To) the leadership candidates, my best piece of advice: win,” said Kinew. “It’s way better than the alternative.” Kinew said that winning…
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Jewish groups applaud 20-year sentence for Ontario neo-Nazi on terror charges
Jewish groups in Canada are applauding the 20-year sentence handed down Friday to an Ontario man on terrorism-related charges. The Ontario Superior Court of Justice sentenced Matthew Althorpe to 20 years imprisonment for facilitating a terrorist activity, instructing others to carry out a terrorist activity and committing an indictable offence (willfully promoting hatred) for a…
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Ontario Sunshine List revealed: Here are the public sector’s highest earners
Ontario released its 2025 Sunshine List Friday, the annual list that documents public sector employees with salaries of over $100,000, with former Ontario Power Generation President and CEO Kenneth Hartwick topping it yet again with a salary of just over $1.9 million.
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Man in P.E.I. arrested by Edmonton police, charged with murder of missing woman
A 47-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a woman who went missing in southeast Edmonton last summer. John Angus Joseph MacArthur is also charged with indignity to a body in the death of his partner, Marika “Mika” Sutton. Sutton’s death is being treated as an intimate partner…
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Windsor police investigating two pepper spray incidents in a single week
The Windsor Police Service says it is looking for four suspects after someone smashed the window of a home on Sycamore Drive and sprayed pepper spray inside. It’s the second incident involving pepper spray reported by police in the span of a week.
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A U.S. probe into fertilizer giants could ripple through Canada
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fertilizer prices are squeezing North American farmers, and they’re putting Canada’s role in the supply chain under fresh scrutiny. The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an antitrust investigation into top commercial fertilizer producers, including Canada’s Nutrien, over concerns that alleged price-fixing may have raised costs for U.S. farmers. “The issue is…
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Avi Lewis could be set for a big NDP leadership win, but remains polarizing within the party
OTTAWA — Filmmaker and journalist Avi Lewis is heading into this weekend’s NDP leadership convention as the clear favourite to win it all. Lewis, a loud and proud eco-socialist slinging a host of outside-the-mainstream policy proposals — such as government-owned grocery chains and a public bank run by Canada Post — has dominated both fundraising…
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This B.C. woman was offered MAID before other treatments. She said no to death and went on to climb a volcano
When she was taken by ambulance to a Vancouver hospital with lower back pain the likes of which she’d never experienced, the last thing 84-year-old Miriam Lancaster said she was thinking of was “cashing my chips.” Lancaster had a fractured sacrum, a break in a bone at the base of the spine that’s connected…