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OTTAWA — Chief Justice Richard Wagner said the Supreme Court’s decision on the appeal of Quebec’s Bill 21 and use of the notwithstanding clause will not be decided based on “extremist or catastrophic” examples after some parties hypothesized the clause could wielded by a tyrant or used to uphold laws legalizing slavery or summary execution.…

Duty free stores are bearing the brunt of the travel boycott to the United States as the steep decline in traffic at Canadian land borders has cut revenues in half for some businesses. The duty free shops at Canada’s land borders depend entirely on cross-border traffic into the U.S., and the downturn is placing extreme…

Soaring oil prices are raising concerns among economists that inflation there will spread to other segments of the economy. Against that backdrop, Bank of Canada senior deputy government Carolyn Rogers acknowledged Thursday that the persistence of inflation following the pandemic surprised central bankers and delayed raising interest rates. “Our forecasting models were built on decades-long…

The 30-year-old man on trial for second-degree murder testified in his own defence about being taunted and angry prior to firing 15 shots.

Canada is imposing more sanctions against five individuals and four entities involved in the Iranian war effort. The measures are part of Canada’s ongoing actions to counter Iran’s destabilizing activities, the federal department of Global Affairs said in a statement issued on Thursday morning. The sanctions target Iranian businessmen and companies directly involved in procuring…

Doctors in Newfoundland and Labrador says quick implementation of a province-wide electronic health information system threatens to harm patients and push some physicians to retire or leave the province.

The MLA for Richmond Centre has been charged with assault, assault by choking and uttering threats, the B.C. Prosecution Service announced Thursday.

Roger M’bahia has been acquitted of all charges after the judge found the Crown did not bring forward any evidence to suggest the teacher’s touching of a student in a classroom was sexual in nature.

Numbers from the tourism industry in Los Cabos show that Canadians are the second-largest market for foreign tourists to the west coast Mexican destination, after Americans. But Canadians are also the fastest growing group of visitors, and they handily outspend their American cousins by a factor of two to one. Or as one tourism official,…