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Trump says he wasn’t portraying himself as Jesus: ‘I thought it was me as a doctor’
U.S. President Donald Trump says a now-deleted image posted to Truth Social, which appeared to portray the president as Jesus Christ, was actually meant to show him as a doctor. Speaking to reporters outside the White House, he said: “I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor. And had to…
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Avi Lewis says high-speed rail project should be publicly owned
OTTAWA — Newly minted NDP leader Avi Lewis says he has concerns about Liberals’ high-speed rail megaproject but isn’t necessarily against the project itself. Lewis said on Monday that he was skeptical about the public-private structure of the project, a joint venture between federal Crown corporation Alto and Cadence, a private consortium that includes Air…
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Thousands of farms are ‘boarded shut’ due to ‘outdated’ tax rules, says Ontario farmer
Farmers in southern Ontario are fighting for a change to the Income Tax Act, so that inheriting nieces and nephews are included in tax deferrals. They say it will help keep farms across Canada open.
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3 face charges in connection with fatal Lambton College shooting with 4th suspect still at large
The Sarnia Police Service has arrested a woman in connection with Friday morning’s Lambton College campus bar shooting, which left 20-year-old Dane Nisbet dead. Police say she was one of two women alleged to be with the suspects on the night of the shooting. Police had previously arrested a man in connection with the shooting.
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Vigil today for Windsor man killed by Israeli forces in Lebanon, national council says
Hassan Haider was married and had 5 children, the National Council of Canadian Muslims says.
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Alberta testing AI-powered drone technology in battle against wild boar
Researchers are turning to a new high-tech combination of drones, thermal cameras and artificial intelligence to get a new vantage point on Alberta’s wild boar problem.
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This N.S. First Nations community asking if it wants pot sold on the reserve at all
Police raids of Indigenous-owned cannabis stores in Nova Scotia have been headline news. But that’s overshadowing other questions: whether band members even want cannabis stores, and if so, who should own and profit from them. That’s what band members are being asked on the Glooscap First Nation.
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Lawsuit accuses Winnipeg woman of taking $6M from non-profit to fund vacations, buy TikTok coins
A non-profit organization — once in charge of millions of dollars in federal funds — is suing a former employee, alleging she misappropriated more than $6 million to pay for vacations and divert to a Jamaican dance hall singer.
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Edmonton police emails, documents provide new information on Canada-first AI facial recognition bodycam pilot
Key details include a “critical fault” system outage, possible extension of pilot project and that facial recognition model was supplied by Corsight AI, a company whose technology has reportedly been used for mass surveillance in Gaza.
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Posthaste: Canadian dollar is being dumped from FX reserves at a record pace. What’s going on?
Global reserve managers appear to have lost their appetite for the Canadian dollar , according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest COFER reading. COFER or the Currency Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves, is quarterly IMF data that tracks the global holdings of major currencies. The big ones are the U.S. dollar and the euro…