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It would be premature to grant a conditional discharge to an Ontario man who terrorized the grandparents of one of two Indiana girls murdered in 2017 by calling them more than 30 times to say the dead girls had been seen in Canada a year after the killings and that their deaths were a hoax,…

At the height of protests in Iran this January, Mona Ghassani, the president of the Iranian Canadian Congress (ICC), was invited to speak on CBC. Amid news reports estimating government forces had killed upwards of 20,000 civilians, Ghassani told host David Cochrane that the events unfolding in Iran did not “exist within a vacuum.” Ghassani…

OTTAWA — Eleanor Olszewski jokes that, like most good Albertans, she originally comes from Saskatchewan. Born in Swift Current, Sask., Olszewski called the small city home for only a couple of years. Her family moved to Medicine Hat, Alta. where she was raised, before leaving for Edmonton to attend university, achieving degrees first in pharmacy…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to deepen defence and industrial cooperation and ease exchanges of classified information , as Canada seeks to strengthen ties with Europe amid volatile United States trade policy . Speaking before talks in Paris, Carney said the countries signed an agreement to share classified information…

Mattress maker Sleep Number Corp. filed bankruptcy with an agreement to sell the firm to one-time retail partner Sleep Country Canada Inc. after years of weak demand, mounting financial pressure and unpredictable tariffs . Sleep Number blamed its bankruptcy, in part, on “the unpredictable shifting of trade rules imposed by the current U.S. government on…

Australia’s richest woman wants to mine coal in the Rocky Mountains and one of Canada’s most famous country music singers has built a coalition of ranchers, fishermen and environmentalists to stop the project. A unit of billionaire Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd. is seeking government permission to reopen the Grassy Mountain mine in Alberta…

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…

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…

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…

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…