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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s highly anticipated address to the European Parliament on Thursday was frequently interrupted by applause from the lawmakers in the room, and ended to a hearty standing ovation followed by expressions of support on social media from politicians across Europe. Carney, who has welcomed the European Union’s invitation to become its first-ever…

Alberta politics are ramping up as we head into the fall, with a surprising byelection result in Calgary, and 10-question referendum about a month away. The NDP seized a riding that had been held by the UCP, with many political watchers tying the vote to discontent over a referendum seen as a sop to a…

A day after President Ursula von Der Leyen extended an unprecedented invitation for Canada to join the European Union as an associate member, Prime Minister Mark Carney explained what that might look like in a speech to the 27-member economic bloc’s Parliament Thursday. During his nearly 2,000-word, roughly 22-minute address in Strasbourg, France, the prime…

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised to bring the EU’s relationship with Canada “to the highest level possible” in a speech on Wednesday, and said she wants to work with Prime Minister Mark Carney to make Canada an “associate member” of the 27-member bloc. The first-of-its-kind designation is the culmination of Carney’s year-plus…

Josh Berman had reached a point where he was in so much pain he could barely sleep. He couldn’t work and was plagued by fatigue that made even simple tasks unbearable. Diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2021, a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes inflammation and ulcers to form in the lining of…

Seeking damages of more than $3 million, Leslyn Lewis, the MP for Haldimand-Norfolk in rural southern Ontario and a former leadership candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada, has brought a defamation claim against her alma mater law school at York University and a professor of refugee law over Lewis’s failed application to a scholar…

STRASBOURG, FRANCE — Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed the European Unions’ invitation to become its first ever “associate member,” pitching Canadian energy and critical minerals in exchange for knocking down trade and travel barriers as well as deeper integration on tech, defence and artificial intelligence. On Thursday morning, Carney delivered a speech to hundreds of…

Autoparts billionaire Frank Stronach, 94, is due in a Toronto courtroom Thursday morning for a sentencing hearing for the crime of indecently assaulting a woman in a Toronto apartment in 1977. Justice Anne Molloy, who found Stronach guilty in June, is to hear Crown and defence arguments before sentencing him for a crime that technically…

A judge in Hamilton, Ont., has resisted a drug dealer’s attempt to get a lighter sentence because he might be deported to Jamaica. Hopeton McFarlane pleaded guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice to possession of fentanyl for the purpose of trafficking. His lawyer argued unsuccessfully for a conditional sentence, the Crown recommended three years…

The U.S. Federal Reserve has done what markets overwhelmingly expected (and President Donald Trump vehemently opposed) and raised its policy interest rate to a target range of 3.75 per cent to four per cent — its first hike in three years — as inflation remains stubbornly above the central bank’s two per cent target. “The…