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Lenient’: No jail for Tunisian national for ‘cruel’ violent domestic assault
A Tunisian national living in Quebec has received a conditional discharge and three years’ probation for a violent domestic assault and subsequent harassment, in a sentence the judge admitted was “lenient” and unlikely to satisfy the victim. Mohamed Aziz Ben Ishak, who had arrived in Canada a year earlier as a temporary resident, attacked Fatma…
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Thousands are now Canadians under new citizenship law. Half of them are Americans
Thousands of people around the world have received Canadian citizenship certificates as a result of a change late last year to federal law. Half of them Americans.
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CBSA president says she doesn’t think it’s now harder to cross Canada-U.S. border
The president of the Canada Border Services Agency said she doesn’t think it’s harder to cross the Canada-U.S. border today than in the past, as data shows U.S. customs searched a record number of electronic devices last year.
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Tonight’s blue micromoon won’t happen again until 2053. Here’s how to see it
Astronomy is full of misnomers. The blue micromoon of May 30 will not be blue. Nor will it be particularly “micro” in size. It will, however, be the moon. Here’s what to know. What is a blue moon? There are two types of so-called blue moon. The older definition refers to the third full moon…
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Toronto plastic surgeon must pay $22.5M in damages for violating patients’ privacy with clinic cameras
A Toronto plastic surgeon has been ordered to pay $21.5 million, plus $1 million in punitive damages, to former patients after an Ontario judge ruled that he violated their privacy by installing 24 cameras around his clinic, including in sensitive treatment areas. The ruling came out of the common issues portion of a class action…
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Canada continuing genocide against Indigenous Peoples, international tribunal finds
An international tribunal has ruled that the Government of Canada’s current policies constitute an ongoing genocide against Indigenous Peoples, following a grueling week of hearings on intergenerational trauma.
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‘Exchange of gunfire’ after man took 3 hostages in Winnipeg home, police say
Winnipeg police say a man took three teens hostage inside a St. James home on Friday, leading to an ‘exchange of gunfire’ as officials tried to arrest him.
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Windsor police target teens with funny distracted driving social media video
Classic lyrics from the 1983 hit Every Breath You Take by The Police are now the music bed to a new reel reaching thousands on social media courtesy the Windsor Police Service.
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Supreme Court clarifies trial time limits to avoid having charges dropped over delays
The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed two challenges to the Jordan framework on Friday, ruling that the time limits put on criminal trials before charges be thrown out of court are justified under Section 11(b) of the Charter.
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Stellantis is launching 11 new North American models. Could they be built in Canada?
Global automaker Stellantis’ recently revealed plans to launch 11 new vehicle models in North America “produces opportunities” for those models to be built in Ontario, the head of the company’s Canadian division says.