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Vanier College apologized Monday for cancelling a Holocaust remembrance ceremony last week and has promised it will be rescheduled. The CEGEP sparked outrage when it called off last Wednesday’s commemoration “in light of the current volatile geopolitical climate,” although its annual Symposium on the Holocaust and Genocide continued for its 34th year under tight security.…

The federal government seems to backing away from annual alcohol tax increases strictly tied to inflation. It is extending a 2 per cent cap on the increase for another two years, aiming to keep costs down for Canadian brewers, wineries and distilleries. The alcohol excise tax automatically increases every year, automatically going up in line…

Police say genetic testing has been used to confirm a homicide victim found in Quebec in 1979 was a woman who had been reported missing months earlier from Ontario.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her United Conservative government spoke of their unwavering love for Canada on Monday as the Opposition NDP accused them of harbouring a separatist.

A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered Gilbert Rozon, the Just For Laughs founder, to pay just under a little more than $880,000 to eight of the nine women who have accused him of sexual assault and misconduct in a civil trial.

The Chatham-Kent Police Service says a motorcyclist was airlifted to hospital in London after a collision with an SUV on Monday afternoon.

Air Canada has been fined $426,000 by the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) for 71 violations of the Air Passenger Protection Regulations (APPR) after it failed to refund or rebook passengers during a strike by flight attendants last summer. However, in a statement to National Post the airline said the notice “is unfounded in law” and…

An organization that represents Ontario’s greenhouse farmers is taking the Town of Kingsville to court over bylaws introduced last year that raised sewer fees for its members in the town.

A long-awaited coroner’s inquest into the 2021 death of Heather Winterstein at a hospital in St. Catharines, Ont., got underway on Monday, with Winterstein’s mother telling the five-person jury about the torment she feels over her daughter’s death.

Canada’s economy grew 0.1 per cent in January, slightly above expectations, as goods-producing industries expanded for the second month in a row, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. Gains in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction, construction and utilities helped push real gross domestic product (GDP) slightly above the agency’s expectations for flat growth in January,…