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A Toronto man found not criminally responsible for killing his girlfriend who got a conditional discharge earlier this year from the Ontario Review Board is subject to a new detention order after police found him this summer roaming naked around a Simcoe County lake screaming about God. Subsequent urine testing found that Michal Nowaczek-Said was…

United Kingdom Prime Minister Andy Burnham was just weighing his first careful steps toward a reset with the European Union when he got lapped on the road to Brussels by Canada’s Mark Carney . The sweeping trade-and-security deal being drafted by EU and Canadian officials heaps pressure on Burnham to form a clearer approach toward…

Maya Funaki, a Hong Kong -based portfolio manager at RBC BlueBay Asset Management , is leaving the firm, according to a spokesperson for the investment arm of Royal Bank of Canada . Funaki, who managed about ¥1 trillion (US$6.5 billion) in Japanese stocks and ¥700 billion in Asia ex-Japan equities, correctly predicted the slowdown in…

Artificial intelligence startup Cohere Inc. is in advanced talks to raise between US$2 billion and US$3 billion, including financing from the Canadian government and existing backers, according to a report from the Globe & Mail. The new fundraising round would value the company at US$20 billion, the report says. The deal could close as soon…

Dan Mills is joining Royal Bank of Canada as a managing director and head of rates sales in Canada, according to a spokesperson. Mills, based in Toronto , will report to Harleen Bains, head of global markets sales Canada . His “deep client connectivity and breadth of product knowledge will be immediately additive to how…

Writer Christie Blatchford had two powerful arrows in her quiver: empathy and outrage. There were good guys and bad guys, and God help you if you were picking on the good guys and Blatch knew about it. There was no better example of the immense firepower she wielded with these sometimes-contradictory qualities than 9/11. Blatch,…

The United States dropping its 50 per cent tariff on Canadian cement may offer a lesson for other industries caught in the trade war , with pressure from U.S. businesses hurt by tariffs helping to make the case for relief, according to some observers. The Donald Trump administration on Tuesday said it was removing cement…

A travelling parent with kids cannot take a 460-millilitre jar of peanut butter through airport security. It’s not an allergen issue, but rather it is too large: a spreadable food, treated like a liquid. But any number of containers of it less than 100 ml is OK. At one airport, a blazer comes off; at…

OTTAWA — Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said there are no meetings scheduled in Washington, even as Mexico and the United States are reportedly working towards a completed bilateral deal by November. “They’ve been at this for a number of months, and speeding towards a deal two months from now doesn’t feel like speed,” said…

Amid an ongoing trade war with the U.S., Quebec voters will head to the polls this fall. Will new CAQ leader Christine Fréchette manage to repeat what Mark Carney did for the federal Liberals, renewing a long-standing government for a new mandate? Or will the resurgent Parti Québécois unseat the CAQ after eight years in…