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American passengers of the ill-fated Air Canada jet that crashed at New York’s LaGuardia airport on Sunday are publicly thanking the Canadian pilots — crediting them with saving dozens of lives. The crash occurred after passengers aboard a United Airlines flight complained of feeling ill due to a mysterious odour. The Port Authority of New…

Two men have been charged in connection with the Feb. 19 death of Dr. Mai Diab, a pediatric dentist who is being remembered as a soft-spoken, generous person who was deeply dedicated to her young patients.

Former Ontario Hockey League player and Guelph Gryphon Jacob Winterton, 25, has died of cancer. He’s being remembered by his family, friends and the hockey community. His brother Ryan, who plays for the Seattle Kraken, paid tribute in an Instagram post where he said he would miss Jacob’s “voice, your advice, and the way you…

Canada’s economy has been trailing behind the United States for years, according to a report from Statistics Canada published on Wednesday, which delved into the reasons why. The agency highlighted three key measures of economic performance — labour productivity , real gross domestic product ( GDP ) per capita and real gross national income (GNI)…

The Dominican Republic national police are investigating the death of a 19-year-old Canadian who was shot and killed early in the morning March 23, in the province of Puerto Plata while on vacation.

The Nova Scotia government passed its budget bill Wednesday afternoon with the public barred from watching inside the legislature and the premier and finance minister absent for the vote.

A recent Leger survey found that of 1,000 parents with at least one child in daycare or who are waiting for a spot, 68 per cent said they were comfortable with staff wearing religious symbols. That number went to 62 per cent when they were asked specifically about educators.

Whitby’s mayor said she will examine security measures at council chambers as police investigate an incident that happened after a meeting on Monday evening.

OTTAWA — Alberta and Ottawa have cleared a major hurdle on their way to fulfilling the memorandum of understanding (MOU) on energy signed last fall. The two jurisdictions announced on Wednesday they’d reached an agreement-in-principle on methane equivalency that aims to reduce methane emissions by 75 per cent below 2014 levels by 2035 in Alberta.…

OTTAWA — “Irreparable” attack on federalism or necessary protection of Charter rights? The two diametrically opposed views on whether the Supreme Court should impose new limits on the invocation of the nothwithstanding clause came to a head Wednesday as five provincial governments and the federal government made their cases during the top court’s hearings on…