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‘We’re still a mess’: N.S. man who lost 3 loved ones in crash speaks out over driver’s sentence
A Nova Scotia man who lost three loved ones in a fatal 2023 crash says the 4½-year sentence the person who caused the crash received is not harsh enough. “We all got hard lives,” says Adam Gabriel. “That gives him no right to do what he did.”
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Enmax open to mayor’s call for it to run Calgary’s water system
The utility wasn’t as warm to Jeromy Farkas’s idea that it sell a U.S. power company to help cut Calgary rates.
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Manitoba asks Sobeys to scrap property restrictions near its stores or it’ll go to municipal board
Manitoba is down to one grocery giant still using property restrictions to keep potential competitors away from its stores after the province curbed the practice through legislation it passed last year.
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Majority of Canadians agree with Smith that provinces should have greater control over immigration: poll
A majority of Canadians say they are in favour of granting provinces more control over immigration as a means to curb the inflow of newcomers, with a majority also in favour of the Alberta government’s suggestion of restricting publicly funded social services for temporary residents, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll. The results, which come…
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Historic Edmonton prison switching from men to women as Canada’s female inmate population doubles
Canada’s prison service is converting a historic heritage building in downtown Edmonton from a prison for men into one for women to help accommodate a national doubling of female inmates. Grierson Institution has a storied history in law and order, dating back to the era of frontier policing. Its original barracks was built in 1912…
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Black man who murdered girlfriend gets reduced sentence partly due to his race
A man who stabbed his girlfriend to death at a shopping centre in British Columbia received a lighter sentence partly because of his race. Everton Javaun Downey, 35, stabbed his girlfriend, Melissa Blimkie, 15 times in a stairwell at the Metrotown Shopping Centre in Burnaby on Dec. 19, 2021. Downey fled the scene with the…
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Rwandan genocide survivor wins another chance at Canadian refugee status because official didn’t take ‘intersectional approach’
A Canadian immigration official who refused refugee protection for a 64-year-old survivor of “one of the worst atrocities in recent memory” failed “to adopt a trauma-informed, intersectional approach,” according to a recent Federal Court decision. Beatha Mutangampundu, a Tutsi survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, took Immigration Minister Lena Diab to court looking for a…
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BDC expands support for defence sector businesses to $6 billion
Canada’s defence sector is getting another boost after the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) announced it is expanding its defence platform to $6 billion from $4 billion after already financing $91.7 million since it launched in December. The federal Crown corporation said the major expansion in financing will support strong demand for opportunities for…
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Havoc in the Strait of Hormuz hands Canada’s oil sector a windfall. Will pipelines follow?
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Placing mines in the world’s top oil chokepoint , the Strait of Hormuz, and threatening to hit any ships that cross it are the latest moves by the Iranian regime in Tehran amid a growing energy crisis that has seen global oil prices rise and fall dramatically. Normally, 20 million barrels of…
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Two arrested after altercation over cake at Vancouver-area child’s birthday party
Kids on trampolines weren’t the only things flying at the New Westminster Extreme Air Park on Saturday afternoon. There were also fists. Two people were arrested and now face possible charges following “an argument over a birthday cake” that escalated at the trampoline park over the weekend. According to videos and posts shared online, a…