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Anthropic risks pariah status after Pentagon calls it a supply-chain risk
Anthropic PBC runs the risk of losing a wide range of United States government busines s after the Defense Department declared it a supply-chain risk , a rare designation that until now has only been assigned to companies from adversary nations like China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Such a penalty has never been imposed on an…
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Canadians feel the pinch at the pump as conflict in the Middle East drives up gas prices
Canadians saw fuel prices climbing across the country this week as the conflict in the Middle East drives up the price of oil. One expert says those high numbers are likely to stick around for a while, even if the war ends in the next few weeks.
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JPMorgan shifts more of EA buyout financing toward junk bonds
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is shifting more of the debt financing for the record leveraged buyout of E lectronic Arts Inc. toward junk bonds , according to people with knowledge of the matter. The roughly US$15.5 billion debt offering is expected to include about US$9.5 billion of junk bonds and $6 billion of leveraged loans,…
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As good as gold: FP Video digs into Canada’s natural resource industries
This week FP Video was on the floor of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) 2026 convention in Toronto, talking to the movers and shakers of the natural resource industry. The Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn interviewed Ontario’s Energy and Mines Minister Stephen Lecce on the province’s new rules for mining companies, Cameco Corp.…
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Canadians are drinking less, driving the biggest drop in alcohol sales in 20 years: StatsCan
Canadians are buying less alcohol, leading to the largest annual drop in beer, wine, spirits and cider sales in the 20 years Statistics Canada has been tracking the data, according to the agency’s new report.
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‘Bullets are flying’: Two more Toronto-area synagogues hit by gunfire
Two more Toronto-area synagogues were hit by gunfire early Saturday, hours after the city’s Jewish community was warned to exercise extra caution as Israel and the United States wage war on Iran. “Both incidents took place at a time when the buildings were empty and no community members were present,” the city’s Jewish Security Network…
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Slain Windsor woman expressed fears to CBC News days before she died
Less than a week before she died, a woman stabbed in a small southwestern Ontario town had spoken to CBC about the threats she was facing for speaking out about Khalistan extremism.
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Argentina’s Javier Milei reforms ‘delusional’ labour laws in bid to spark economy
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Argentina’s President Javier Milei, whose early, attention-grabbing economic victories have cooled, has successfully pushed through a package of transformational labour reforms in a bid to modernize Argentina’s ailing economy. The radical measures enacted by the self-professed libertarian leader take aim at the country’s stringent employee protections, extending the maximum working day…
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Cannabis ban dropped ‘to test’ Ontario man with paranoid schizophrenia who killed his mother
An Ontario man with a history of drug abuse who was found not criminally responsible for murdering his mother by striking her “numerous times on the head, back, neck, and arms with several weapons, including a large bladed knife, a smaller paring knife, a claw hammer and a large pry bar,” has seen his cannabis prohibition…
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Inside the Crown’s teetering case against billionaire Frank Stronach at Toronto rape trial
Analysis She entered the courtroom on crutches, tottering toward the witness stand, barely managing to get up and seated, an elderly woman of 73. But she spoke with confidence, lively and engaged with her questioner, telling a story that happened in Toronto in 1977, soon after her 25th birthday. “It happened so quickly. I was…