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There’s a new national consensus forming in Canadian policy circles, and it goes something like this: Canada is world-class at producing research, terrible at commercializing it, and the solution is to “own our IP .” File more patents . Keep the rights at home. Build a moat. I’m a patent professional. I make my living…

The only way to tame oil prices is to “destroy demand,” says global energy consultant Wood Mackenzie Ltd. The Scotland-based firm said global oil demand needs to fall to rebalance the market, but Brent crude (the European oil benchmark) would need to rise to “at least” US$150 to achieve that goal. “At this price level,…

A man who stabbed his girlfriend to death at a shopping centre in British Columbia received a lighter sentence partly because of his race. Everton Javaun Downey, 35, stabbed his girlfriend, Melissa Blimkie, 15 times in a stairwell at the Metrotown Shopping Centre in Burnaby on Dec. 19, 2021. Downey fled the scene with the…

The refinery says it ‘immediately deployed’ equipment including booms and vacuum equipment.

Ontario premier Doug Ford recently spoke about “sleeper cells” during a press conference about a series of shootings in Toronto targeting synagogues and the U.S. consulate. Ford stressed this was his personal opinion and not based on police intelligence. Yet, he insisted authorities need “to weed these people out and hold them accountable,” by throwing…

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — In January 2010, a catastrophic earthquake upended Haiti. In Port-au-Prince, the capital, thousands of bodies piled up in a morgue. In Canada, people scrambled to help. Ten days after the disaster, Air Canada personnel volunteered to fill one of the airline’s Airbus A330 jets with antibiotics, generators, food, plus 15 doctors and…

Over the last several years, the number of Hamilton youth using bear spray in assaults and robberies has been rising, police say.

A new program in remote First Nations across northwestern Ontario aims to improve access to medical transportation and emergency medical service training. Communities are leading the emergency first response team (EFRT) program in partnership with the air ambulance service Ornge. Here’s how the EFRT aims to improve health-care access in fly-in First Nations.

A new talent search launched by London Reggae Fest organizers aims to support emerging reggae artists across Canada.

A Nova Scotia man who lost three loved ones in a fatal 2023 crash says the 4½-year sentence the person who caused the crash received is not harsh enough. “We all got hard lives,” says Adam Gabriel. “That gives him no right to do what he did.”