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Police say a suspected gunman who attacked a Detroit-area synagogue with a vehicle is dead.

Canadians are concerned about rising government deficits, with a majority believing that middle-class taxpayers will eventually have to foot the bill for all the public overspending, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll. Seventy-one per cent of respondents said they were concerned that both Ottawa and several provincial governments are badly outspending their means at a…

OTTAWA — The federal heritage minister has reconvened a group of researchers and advocates that had been tasked with advising the government on how to regulate tech platforms, as Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government weighs how it wants to tackle the issue of online safety. Heritage Minister Marc Miller’s office announced that the minister met…

Empire Co. Ltd. reported a net loss of $385 million or $1.68 per share in the third quarter, a 371 per cent drop from the $146 million in earnings (or $0.62 per share) last year. The company attributed the loss mainly to the closure of its e-commerce banner Voilà in western Canada. On an adjusted…

Canada’s wheelchair curling team improved to 8-0 and clinched the top playoff seed at the Milano-Cortina Paralympics with a 6-3 win over Korea on Thursday.

The Liberal government has introduced a new lawful access bill that it says will help police and security services track and identify people who may be using tools like social media or artificial intelligence to commit crimes or threaten national security.

A 34-year-old man has been charged in connection with the abduction, drugging and sexual assault of a woman, Windsor police say.

OTTAWA — After their first crack at creating a new lawful access regime was criticized from all sides, the Liberals tabled a new bill Thursday proposing a narrower set of warranted and unwarranted search powers for police and intelligence agencies. In Bill C-22, the Liberals offer significantly circumscribed powers to authorities compared to those proposed…

Niagara Regional Chair Bob Gale has abruptly resigned, just hours after anti-racism groups in Niagara demanded he apologize for owning a signed copy of Adolf Hitler’s infamous manifesto Mein Kampf, which outlined the Nazi leader’s racist and anti-Semitic world views before he oversaw mass murder including the killing of six million Jewish people during the…

Construction to extent the Lake Huron Primary Water Supply System pipeline to the Oneida Nation of the Thames will soon be underway after a London, Ont., company won a bid for the federal contract last week. Officials aim for the water to start flowing to the First Nation by next year.