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Former law school dean wanted on Canada-wide arrest warrant now disbarred in U.K.
A former University of Manitoba law school dean found to have misspent more than $600,000 from publicly-funded university coffers and is wanted by Winnipeg police on a Canada-wide arrest warrant, has been disbarred from practising law in his native U.K. Just over two years after the Law Society of Manitoba (LSM) disbarred Jonathan Black-Branch following…
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You can now get a prescription for nature access if you live in Hamilton, here’s how
The PaRx program, an initiative that allows healthcare providers to prescribe nature passes to patients, is now available for Hamilton Conservation Authority (HCA) sites.
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Posthaste: How the U.S. dollar stole the Canadian dollar’s petrocurrency thunder
The Canadian dollar has yielded its petrocurrency status to the United States dollar due to the latest global energy crisis, says one currency analyst. “The shale revolution turned the United States into the world’s largest oil and natural gas producer, meaning energy price swings now feed more directly into American trade balances, capital flows and…
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Safety, politics and education costs were key reasons why this U.S. family moved to Windsor
Marissa Pfautz, her husband and four of their children came to Windsor, Ont., from Chicago, Ill., in August. She says it was for a handful of reasons. And as the CBC’s Jason Viau reports, according to one immigration lawyer, more people are looking to move to Canada from the U.S. over the past few years.
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Volkswagen Beetle removed from rock face in Squamish, B.C.
A group claiming to represent a group of anonymous University of B.C. engineering students took credit for suspending the car last week, as part of a long-running tradition of pranks.
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Man threatens girl with knife at Windsor bus stop, police allege
The accused also made disparaging comments about the victim’s skirt, according to authorities.
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Inside a derailed human smuggling operation on the Quebec-U.S. border
In a rural farming region south of Montreal, a narrow trail slices through the forest, separating Hemmingford, Que., from Mooers, New York. Through text messages sent at around 2 a.m. on Jan. 22, 2025, two alleged human smugglers prepare to send clients southbound, from Canada into the United States, through the snow-covered woodlands on foot.…
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B.C. woman who flew to South Korea for love faces drug smuggling charges
A woman from British Columbia is facing drug-smuggling charges in South Korea, but her family says she is the victim of a romance scam and had no idea that she was being used as a drug mule. Spring Parks, 59, lives in Surrey, B.C., but left Canada at the end of January to meet a…
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24 Sussex Drive is a slow-motion disaster. So we asked architects how to fix it
Elected a year ago, the Mark Carney government made housing a priority and rolled out a $13-billion plan with a goal of building 500,000 houses a year for the next decade. Yet there is one house no one in the government seems willing to touch or even talk about. Just over two kilometres from Parliament…