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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has called out Prime Minister Mark Carney for making “contradictory statements” on how revenue from the new Gordie Howe International Bridge will be split between Canada and the United States. In a letter to the PM shared on social media, Poilievre wrote: “Canada paid for 100 per cent of the cost…

Lawyers for autoparts billionaire Frank Stronach are in Ontario Superior Court this morning seeking a mistrial in his ongoing sexual assault trial, in which he has already been found guilty in relation to historical crimes against two women. “These are unusual circumstances,” said Judge Anne Molloy, who found Stronach guilty last month. At issue is…

A majority of Canadians are onside with the recently unveiled Alberta-to-British-Columbia pipeline proposal , though some of that support rests on “shifting ground,” says a new poll from the Angus Reid Institute. Its poll of about 2,600 adults conducted online July 10-14 said 63 per cent support the proposal made by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith,…

A new poll has revealed that 70 per cent of Canadians think their high tax bill reduces their standard of living, while the majority of respondents also feel they pay too much in taxes and government subsidies are not worth the cost. The poll , which was conducted by Ipsos for the Montreal Economic Institute…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney defended his decision to give the United States a share of the profit from a new bridge between Ontario and Michigan, saying there will be little to no proceeds to split at first and arguing the project will help the economy in both countries. The prime minister , speaking at…

Ontario’s legal regulator has suspended a lawyer for six months after a judge busted her in open court for using AI hallucinated material in a hearing about family and estate law. The decision by the discipline tribunal of the Law Society of Ontario marks the first time a Canadian law society has gone beyond a…

U.S. Republican politicians are blaming Canada for the wildlfire smoke drifting south primarily into the American midwest and northeast, with some taking threatening stances. The primary source is more than 800 fires in northwestern Ontario, though American media such as USA Today and the Washington Post , are reporting that wildfires in Minnesota are also…

OTTAWA — As Toronto recorded the worst air quality in the world this week amid smoke from raging northern Ontario wildfires, Prime Minister Mark Carney defended against reporters’ questions over his climate priorities by pointing to his predecessor’s record. “Well, our government has reaped the results from the previous government, that’s the truth,” Carney said…

GameStop Corp. chief executive Ryan Cohen declined to say if he planned to raise his US$56 billion offer for online auctioneer eBay Inc. , but said “we’re coming for eBay one way or another.” In an interview with Bloomberg TV on Thursday, Cohen said he hopes to turn the combined company into a US$1 trillion…

On the edge of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, companies including Obsidian Energy Ltd. and Yangarra Resources Corp. are breathing new life into a long-dormant gas reservoir — except now they’re drilling for oil . Both firms are fracking into the sandstone that makes up the Basel Belly River formation in an area southwest of the…