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Burdett “Burd” Sisler, the oldest known living Canadian — and one of the world’s oldest Second World War veterans — has died at 110, his family confirmed on Saturday.

This week, FP Video looks at how the ongoing fuel-cost crisis will only get worse as the war in the Middle East continues. Plus, how returning snowbirds from abroad are keeping up demand in cottage country , while the rest of Canada’s real estate market is expected to be low and slow. The week winds…

With heavily armed Toronto police guarding Jewish institutions during Passover, a Jewish-owned restaurant became the city’s latest target of antisemitic gunfire on Friday morning, prompting Israel’s ambassador to Canada to urge authorities to act “before it’s too late.” Old Avenue restaurant in north Toronto was hit by gunfire around 1:30 a.m. on Friday. CTV reported…

The Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba (NACC), a humanitarian aid mission which brought tonnes of food, medicine and solar equipment to the Cuban people in protest against U.S. sanctions of the island, was framed as a gesture of international solidarity with the Cuban people. Prominent participants included U.K. MP and former Labour Party leader Jeremy…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadians still have their elbows up when it comes to travelling south of the border, and those fewer trips are having a disastrous effect on a key business: duty-free shopping. Tariff spats, Donald Trump’s “51st state” rhetoric and encouragement by political leaders to “buy Canadian” have led many Canadians to forgo American…

A Quebec judge says Canada cannot have a separate judicial system for immigrants who come into conflict with the law amid a national debate over the role immigration status plays in sentencing. Provincial court Judge Dennis Galiatsatos made the observation in the case of a married immigrant in Montreal who harassed his former girlfriend for six…

The Los Angeles Dodgers are back in Toronto to take on the Blue Jays for a three-game series starting Monday night. What’s changed since they defeated the Jays to become World Series champs in Toronto last year? Let’s find out.

OTTAWA — It’s a pattern almost as old as party politics itself: candidates for party leadership campaign closer to the ideological wings, more in line with their party faithful, then immediately tack towards the centre once they win the leadership vote, more in line with the broader electorate. In the early days of his leadership of…

B.C.’s anti-gang agency arrested one of Canada’s most wanted in Surrey last month, after spotting the accused Winnipeg killer while he was out on parole. Sgt. Sarbjit Sangha, of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit-B.C., said 25-year-old Chad Dandan “was attempting to evade detection by concealing his identity” when uniformed officers recognized him on March…

The federal health regulator said Friday its assessment found no evidence of a machine malfunction and the equipment performed as expected, wrote Health Canada spokesperson Mark Johnson in an emailed statement.