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Immigration rules hamper health-care recruitment, nurse says after permanent residency application rejected
A nurse in Winnipeg says Canada’s immigration system is undercutting efforts to address a shortage of health-care workers. after his application for permanent residency was rejected on a technicality.
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Here’s what we’re tracking on March 19
Nancy Grewal arson video, Windsor reaction to Michigan child vaccinations and university homelessness panel.
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Alberta to ban doctors from bringing up MAID death options before their patients do
Alberta doctors will be explicitly banned from raising assisted death with a patient without the person first bringing it up, according to a new bill tabled in the province on Wednesday. The goal is to ensure the potentially life-ending decisions are “initiated and driven” by people themselves. Some critics argue that it’s “mind boggling” that,…
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Permanent resident who smuggled $35M worth of opium into Canada gets 16 years
A Kurdish immigrant convicted of smuggling $35 million worth of opium into Canada has been sentenced to 16 years in prison and is at risk of being deported to Iran for his crimes. Sohrab Hanareh-Mafarani, 53, a permanent resident of Canada who came here in 2010, was found guilty in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice…
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A Walmart worker, a sheriff, a college teacher: Finding the forgotten first Blue Jays
COMPTON, CA — On a quiet street in the notorious Los Angeles district of Compton, Calif., the first man ever to come to bat for Toronto’s newborn baseball franchise grants his first interview in nearly half a century: Go back to Thursday, April 7, 1977, and here is John Henry Scott snowshoeing to home plate…
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Here are Canada’s biggest points of leverage in tariff and trade talks with the U.S.
While Canada’s economy is far more reliant on exports to the U.S. than vice versa, Canadian negotiators have crucial ammunition in their efforts to land a trade deal that reduces or eliminates tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
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‘We need justice’: Sister of slain Windsor woman questions why it took police so long to release video
Last November, someone doused Nancy Grewal’s porch and lit it on fire. Four months later, she was stabbed to death outside a home in LaSalle. Now her sister wonders why police didn’t appeal for leads in the arson sooner.
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Increasingly desperate Iran raises risk of ‘last gasp’ terror attacks in Canada, U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The risk of domestic terror attacks is rising amid the war with Iran, and both Canada and the U.S. have already seen several incidents in recent weeks, with some directly related to the conflict. These include three people shot dead outside an Austin, Tex. bar on March 1 by a man expressing…
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Canada slips further down in World Happiness rankings, due in part to social media use
Heavy social media use has contributed to a stark decline in well-being among young people, with the effects particularly worrying in teenage girls in English-speaking countries — including Canada — and Western Europe, according to the 2026 World Happiness Report published Thursday.
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Ont. premier, officials call for reversal of temporary release of convicted child killer
A recent temporary release of a child murderer in Durham Region is drawing criticism from top officials across Ontario, with calls for the parole board to keep him behind bars before he’s let out again.