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Sask. legislature adds dedicated washroom for female MLAs after 114 years
NDP MLA Kim Breckner, whose son Ian was born in December 2025, says the current one-stall bathroom is inadequate for the many women and their children using it.
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Canadian wanted in international drug trafficking investigation arrested in Mexico after 4 years on the run
Mexican authorities have arrested Denis Ivziku, a Canadian fugitive wanted on conspiracy charges in connection with an investigation into an international trafficking operation that smuggled drugs to Manitoba.
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Ski-Doo maker BRP lowers 2027 profit guidance amid tariff woes
Ski-Doo and Sea-Doo maker BRP Inc. revised its full-year 2027 guidance to reflect the impact of tariffs on its recreational machines since the United States amended its policy on imported steel , taxing the entire value of a product rather than its component metal. The company lowered its expected profits to between $215 million and…
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Province says it won’t support ‘safer use space’ in Windsor Arena tiny home concept
An unsupervised space providing drug use supplies could be a part of the city’s concept for a “pod-style” village of tiny homes inside the former Windsor arena. But not if the province has anything to say about it.
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Senate hears calls for Liberal anti-hate bill to include ‘residential school denialism,’ hammer and sickle
OTTAWA — With senators set to begin their close study of the Liberals’ anti-hate bill, groups are calling on the Upper Chamber to expand the list of hate symbols and criminalize downplaying harms of residential schools. Those calls, made by witnesses and briefs submitted to the Senate committee on human rights currently studying Bill C-9,…
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Housing prices would be 10% lower if Canada had kept pace with U.S., CMHC says
OTTAWA — Canada’s housing stock would be about 30 per cent larger and prices 10 per cent lower if this country’s building industry had been as responsive to demand as its American counterpart over the last couple of decades, says a new report from the federal housing agency. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)…
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BDC chief says Canada can no longer afford to be ‘shy’ about defence investment
Canada is no longer being “shy” about investing in defence , says Business Development Bank of Canada chief executive Isabelle Hudon, as Ottawa pushes billions of dollars toward strategic industries, supply chains and economic sovereignty . She said Canada is also helping lead the creation of the proposed Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB), a…
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‘Extremity of depravity’: Toronto man sentenced for exploiting, sextorting over 100 U.S. children
WARNING: This content could be disturbing to some readers. A 40-year-old Toronto man who spent seven years sexually exploiting and sextorting hundreds of children online and then meticulously organizing his collection of depraved content into “wins,” was sentenced in a U.S. court this week to 33 years in federal prison. Some of Ramanan Pathmanathan’s 145…
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Public safety minister wants police search powers bill to become law by June 19
OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says he wants his embattled bill facilitating police and intelligence agencies’ ability to intercept and collect personal information to be law by June 19. “My expectation is to get it done before we rise. I want this as law before we rise,” Anandasangaree told National Post Wednesday about…
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AI purveyors are changing their tune on the job apocalypse. Should they be believed?
The doom-laden warnings of mass AI-driven joblessness may have been overstated, the technology’s biggest proponents are now saying. Open AI CEO Sam Altman is “delighted to be wrong” about the impact AI would have on the economy, he said at a conference in Sydney earlier this week. “I don’t think we’re going to have the…