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A python was found at a Windsor sewage plant. Was it flushed?
A city worker at the pollution control facility discovered the exotic pet. It is dehydrated and needs help shedding but is expected to survive, according to the local humane society.
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How the synagogue audience reacted to Mark Carney’s ‘covenant’ speech on antisemitism
With its quotations from the prophets Isaiah and Amos, the philosophers Aristotle and Charles Taylor, and the Nobel Laureate Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s landmark speech on antisemitism aimed for some of the most rousing oratory of his premiership, as he urged all Canadians to engage with this challenge that should not…
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‘Canada’s civic compact is failing Jewish Canadians,’ Carney says in speech addressing antisemitism
Prime Minister Mark Carney launched a new faith advisory council to combat antisemitism led by former Senator Marc Gold in a speech at a Toronto synagogue on Monday evening.
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Virus detected in invasive mosquitoes found in B.C.’s Sea-to-Sky region
Researchers found two mosquito species that tested positive for California serogroup virus, a group of mosquito-borne viruses that can cause encephalitis and meningitis in humans.
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What’s at stake for upcoming CUSMA negotiations
The Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement is up for review on July 1. It’s the free trade deal that impacts more than $1 trillion of the Canadian economy each year. Trump has previously threatened to abandon the agreement, but some trade experts are calling his bluff. Here’s everything you need to know about the agreement, and what’s…
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Read Mark Carney’s speech arguing that the crisis of antisemitism is ‘severe and demands a targeted response’
In a speech in Toronto on Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that the country’s civic compact “is failing Jewish Canadians,” who are being “brutally targeted” amid a crisis of antisemitism in the country. Carney said that more than two-thirds of all religiously-motivated hate crimes were directed at Jewish Canadians last year, even though they…
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Cities to pay 10% to be eligible for new housing infrastructure fund
Cities including Ottawa will be required to chip in 10 per cent of the cost of new infrastructure before they can draw from an $8.8-billion federal-provincial fund intended to spur homebuilding by lowering fees that are normally paid by developers.
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Canada Post workers vote to ratify new collective agreement
Members of the union representing workers at Canada Post have voted to accept the tentative agreements reached with the Crown corporation back in December. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) on Monday released preliminary results from its bargaining units for the past six weeks, with the majority voting in favour of the new contracts.…
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Federal government invests $22.8 million in Indigenous sport programs
The federal government strengthened its commitment to supporting First Nations, Inuit and Metis people on Monday, with Secretary of Sport Adam van Koeverden announcing 2026-2028 funding recipients for the Sport for Social Development in Indigenous Communities program.
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Family seeks answers after death of First Nations girl twice discharged from hospital with broken arm
The family of a nine-year-old First Nations girl who died after being discharged from a Manitoba hospital’s emergency room twice is “carrying unanswered questions” about her death, says Southern Chiefs’ Organization Grand Chief Jerry Daniels.