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Woman who spent 6 days on an overflow stretcher in a N.L. hospital says ‘it felt degrading’
After spending six days on a hospital stretcher, Jaymee Miller said she hopes she never has to be admitted to the Western Memorial Regional Hospital in Corner Brook ever again.
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Toronto lawyer linked to mortgage fraud that led to double murder-suicide fails to get suspension lifted
A Toronto lawyer linked to a mortgage fraud later cited as motive in a deadly 2024 triple shooting has failed to convince the Law Society of Ontario to lift his suspension. Shahryar Mazaheri represented real estate broker Samira Yousefi, who in 2022 helped Alisa Pogorelovsky and her husband, Alan Kats, borrow $1,375,000. The couple thought…
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Carney meets Japan’s ‘Iron Lady’ and tests out his rusty Japanese skills
TOKYO — Prime Minister Mark Carney, on an ongoing mission to bring together the world’s middle powers, brought out his rusty Japanese skills as he met his counterpart and enjoyed a Canadian-inspired birthday cake in Tokyo. Carney touched down in Tokyo on Friday afternoon, local time, where he was set to spend the next 24…
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B.C. man sentenced to life in prison for 2021 gang-related murder of woman — the details of which were kept secret
A B.C. man has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 2021 killing of Naramata woman — a development that remained largely secret until a judge partially lifted a sweeping publication ban this week.
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Toronto-area grave robbers are stealing family heirlooms. This victim says it’s ‘a total violation of my parents’
Brothers Derek and Darren Mori learned the missing items from their parents’ cremation niche is part of what police believe to be a large string of thefts targeting cemeteries across Southwestern Ontario last year.
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Alcohol, mini-golf helped double Canadian Senate’s hospitality bill since 2019, says taxpayers group
Like the Members of Parliament in Ottawa, the 105 members of Canada’s Senate are getting a pay raise on April 1. But before they receive a nearly $10,000 hike to their base salary of $184,800 , the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is calling out a handful of the worst offenders and some staff members for…
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Kelly McParland: Can a broke and battered NDP deliver utopia?
Journalistic tradition dictates that the New Democratic Party be treated as an organization of consequence, with lengthy historical roots and some significant achievements. Lately it hasn’t been acting like it, though. Its standing in the House of Commons slipped to fourth place three elections ago and shows little sign of revival. Its seven paltry seats…
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The surprise fight for the trademark of a notorious outlaw biker club with a deadly history
A fight for ownership of the trademark for an outlaw motorcycle club’s patch — a logo notorious from a biker war that killed more than 160 people — has been settled by federal bureaucrats at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. In a strange clash of corporate rules meeting biker culture, the mother of a former…
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Why Quebec wants to protect the cheese curds it claims are necessary to make ‘original’ poutine
Quebec is moving forward with plans to shield its poutine cheese curds with protected geographical status. The Conseil des Industriels Laitiers du Québec (CILQ), the province’s dairy industry association, is pushing for a “Protected Geographical Indication” (PGI), which would enable provincial producers to identify their cheese curds as protected with an official designation seal. To…
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Most anti-Black racism recommendations completed at UWindsor, but some still waiting for more action
The University of Windsor says it has completed nearly 90 per cent of the anti-Black racism recommendations stemming from a special task force on campus, but some are pushing for more progress.