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Carney says his middle-powers doctrine is ‘gaining real traction,’ announces intel-sharing pact with France
OTTAWA – On a visit to Paris, Prime Minister Mark Carney said he believes the notion is catching on for middle powers to unite against “hegemons,” as he laid out in his attention-grabbing speech in Davos, Switzerland , earlier this year. “It is gaining real traction,” said Carney during a press conference in the French…
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John Risley’s CFFI gets green light for asset sale process amid $1.4-billion debt
A Nova Scotia judge on Friday approved a court-supervised sales process that will allow John Risley ‘s CFFI Ventures Inc. to begin marketing its assets as part of a restructuring involving roughly $1.4 billion in debt, including about $1 billion owed to HPS Investment Partners. Justice John Keith authorized the proposed sale and investment solicitation…
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Ottawa tables new law requiring importers to prove no forced labour used in goods
OTTAWA — The federal government will put the burden on importers, instead of customs officials, to prove that the products they bring into Canada are not produced with forced labour, according to new legislation tabled Friday. Prime Minister Mark Carney had promised that his government would be tabling a new bill to reinforce its current…
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‘The whole ring is unwinding’: Gunmen-for-hire who targeted U.S. Consulate linked to earlier shootings, source says
An investigation into shootings at GFL Environmental Inc. facilities led to the alleged shooters-for-hire who targeted Toronto’s U.S. Consulate earlier this spring and are suspected of being involved in Thursday’s shooting death of a Toronto police officer, a source said Friday. Veteran Toronto Police Service Constable Marc Pinizzotto, a 43-year-old member of the force’s Emergency…
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Study maps quadrillion-mile fungus web lurking in topsoil
Scientists have mapped a dense network of thread-like fungi that criss-crosses across an array of biomes while hiding just beneath the Earth’s surface. Known as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AM), these microscopic organisms carry water and nutrients to 70 per cent of plant species and help keep a vast amount of carbon out of the atmosphere.…
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Sophie Grégoire Trudeau on fame: ‘One day you’re speaking on a stage. The next you’re sitting alone by the water’
In a video posted on social media recently, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau tells her followers she wants to share something “quite personal.” “One day you’re speaking on a stage. The next you’re sitting alone on a bench by the water. Both are sacred,” the 51-year-old wrote in the caption of the video shared on Facebook .…
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Big Tech needs ‘to come to the table’ to figure out social media ban: Canada’s heritage minister
OTTAWA — Heritage Minister Marc Miller says he expects the timeline for when the government will impose a ban on social media for children under 16 to be “rapid” once its bill introducing an online safety regime becomes law. His comments come amid concerns from at least one industry group that months, if not years,…
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Hundreds of tickets are still available for World Cup games in Canada
As hype grows globally for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, tickets prices in Canada may be dampening the mood as not a single game hosted in this country has sold out. All 13 of the games in Canada still have tickets available on FIFA’s own ticketing platform as of Friday morning, hours before Canada is…
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Canadian mother sues ChatGPT’s owner, alleging AI chatbot encouraged her daughter’s suicide
Kristie Carrier, a mother from New Brunswick, sued OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, and its CEO, Sam Altman, in a U.S. court on Thursday, alleging that the AI chatbot encouraged her daughter to commit suicide. Carrier said in a lawsuit filed in San Francisco state court that her daughter, Alice, told ChatGPT about her suicidal…
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Posthaste: Canada racks up more millionaire households, but in one province that’s no guarantee of financial resilience, says TD
The average Canadian household’s net worth topped $1 million in 2025, a 37 per cent gain from 2019, but some are still living on the edge despite being technically richer. “Household balance sheets often look reassuring in the aggregate, and in 2025, Canada’s headline numbers delivered,” Maria Solovieva, an economist at TD Economics, said in…