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Renee and her husband had endured a decade of exhausting efforts to start a family, including multiple fruitless treatments and medical issues that seemed to make pregnancy impossible. Then this April the Toronto couple’s ordeal seemed finally to be heading for a happy ending. An American agency had found a surrogate mother in the States…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet with Carney and cabinet in Banff

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OTTAWA — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney and his cabinet Thursday during a previously unannounced two-day visit to Canada. The Ukrainian president landed in Calgary with his wife Olena Zelenska on Wednesday evening, where he was greeted by Canadian and European dignitaries as well as Foreign Minister…

Posthaste: Despite trade war, ‘Elbows up’ has its limits

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Canadians are facing a difficult push-and-pull between supporting the country through its trade war with the United States and facing the drawbacks of an economic downturn. Three quarters of them support the federal government’s decision to push back on U.S. tariffs, but 68 per cent call the increased risk of job loss as part of…

Sobeys parent Empire reports 9.9% jump in net earnings as fuel sales soar

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Empire Co. Ltd. reported net earnings of $233 million in its first quarter, up 9.9 per cent from the prior year. This comes to a 14.3 per cent increase in earnings per share to $1.04, a record high for a first quarter. The parent company of grocery chain Sobeys saw sales grow 2.6 per cent…

PSP aims to boost Canadian investments by at least 30 per cent in coming years, CEO says

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One of Canada’s largest pension funds expects to boost investments in Canada by 30 per cent to 40 per cent over the next few years, bringing its total assets invested at home above the $100 billion level. The Public Sector Pension Investment Board’s target stems from a more uncertain global landscape alongside new opportunities at…

Canadians born after 9/11 far less likely to fear another terror attack, poll finds

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Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks a public opinion poll reveals a striking generational divide in what Canadians know about the world’s deadliest terror attacks, how deeply they feel its impact, how much they fear terrorism — and even on the question of whether terrorism can be justified. The poll’s findings suggest personal…

‘THERE’S BEEN A TRAGEDY’: The untold history of Canada’s 9/11 response

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This is an excerpt from Ash and Honor: The Untold 368 Minutes of 9/11, by American author Jeffrey Robinson. The book tells the story of the official response to 9/11 by North American authorities. This excerpt, drawn from multiple chapters, focuses on senior Canadian officials. Jean Chrétien, the 67-year-old Canadian prime minister who’d led his…

Is the trade war driving American NHL stars out of Canada?

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Hockey has entered into the Canada-U.S. trade war again. Not over tariffs on hockey sticks or President Donald Trump’s AI-generated meme of himself knocking down Prime Minister Mark Carney on the ice, but as part of the conversation surrounding the departure of American-born players from Canadian teams. There hasn’t been a flood of players leaving,…

Trump’s latest trade threat weighs on Canadian firms with U.S. contracts

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Shares of Canadian companies that do business with the United States government fell following President Donald Trump’s threat to bar Canadian-origin products from being sold to federal contractors . “From now on, NO RECIPROCITY – NO ACCESS!” Trump said in a social media post Tuesday afternoon, saying Canadian and provincial governments ban U.S. firms from…

Google to invest US15 billion in AI Infrastructure in Finland

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