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Edmonton police along with federal law enforcement deported two men for their connection to extortion schemes targeting business owners in the city’s South Asian community. Similar criminal schemes have seen businesses burned across Edmonton in recent years.

A provincial politician says he and his wife were victimized by online hackers in a blackmail scheme this week.   In a statement released by the Progressive Conservative party,  Hammonds Plains-Lucasville PC MLA Rick Burns said hackers accessed his email and requested money, which the family refused to pay.   “Because we refused payment, the hackers accessed files on my…

In a rare judicial move and a first in Canada, a Quebec judge this week granted an injunction to ban a fecund father and son in the province from donating any more of their sperm. Court documents obtained by National Post note that, as of November 2024, the two donors had allegedly contributed to at…

A man who was dropped off at a Toronto-area hospital after being shot and wounded during an armed home invasion in Vaughan, Ont., is now in custody , police say, adding that he was wanted for numerous other violent offences. A man identified as Trestin Cassanova-Alman, 24, of no fixed address, has been charged with robbery…

So-called algorithmic pricing may be a new concept for many Canadians, but the idea of prices fluctuating based on a computer program is one most are against. More than half of Canadians view algorithmic pricing as unfair and 52 per cent say it should be banned, while 31 per cent believe it should be allowed…

The Liberal government leaned further into its emerging leadership role among the world’s middle powers, with Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand telling a London audience that now is the country’s time to lead internationally.   Making the keynote address at the 2026 Chatham House Global Trade Conference on Thursday, Anand said that a country’s greatness…

OTTAWA – The Liberal government awarded a contract worth $307 million to Kitchener-based manufacturer Colt Canada on Thursday, to produce 65,402 rifles for the Canadian Army. The procurement will come in two phases, with the first 30,000 Canadian Modular Assault rifles set to be delivered over the next three years. The remaining 35,000 will be…

Defence Minister David McGuinty said he did not know about a strike on an air base in Kuwait where members of the Canadian Armed Forces were stationed, until after it was first reported by a media outlet. “No, I didn’t know about it before La Presse reported on it,” McGuinty said, in a response to…

Hannah and Cyndie Stapleton said they were gobsmacked to discover a new home is being built where their former home once stood — over 13 years after it was expropriated. Now, Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Barry Petten says the department is developing a new land disposition policy.

Benjamin Tal , deputy chief economist at CIBC World Markets, talks to Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about the Bank of Canada ‘s latest interest rate decision and what’s next for inflation and trade talks. • Email: lharapyn@postmedia.com