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A Calgary judge has set aside an absolute discharge in a sexual assault case where a permanent Canadian resident argued he could face immigration consequences for a conviction. Haagen Sagli pleaded guilty to the May 12, 2024, sexual assault of a woman he met at a bar. The Norwegian citizen has been living here since…

Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters chief executive Dennis Darby talks to the Financial Post about the real impacts already hitting Canadian manufacturers in the trade war. Despite trade war, ‘Elbows up’ has its limits Canada can afford to wait out Trump’s trade war, say two prominent policy vets

OTTAWA — Patricia Leidl arrived in Ottawa this week eager to tell a painful story about her reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine that even some of her own friends have questioned. After an uneventful first shot against the COVID virus, Leidl received a second dose of vaccine on June 10, 2021, just days before she…

An artificial intelligence researcher for California-based Anthropic who quit this week offered ill portents that the company and its competitors are “locked in a race” to perfect the technology, even though they “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Other prominent individuals in the field have also offered…

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has ordered a B.C. family doctor to pay $28,100 in compensation for refusing to administer a puberty-blocking drug to a transgender-identifying teen over his religious beliefs. According to the ruling, Dr. Henry Ajaero discriminated against the transgender youth by denying medical services based on gender identity. “I am not…

A Republican congressman from Pennsylvania is planning to put a resolution before the U.S. House of Representatives urging President Donald Trump, Congress and the United States Secretary of the Interior to rename Lake Erie as “Lake Pennsylvania.” The reasoning behind the name change derives from the lake’s modern identity, David Maloney said in a press…

OTTAWA — Former prime minister Justin Trudeau and his longtime chief of staff Katie Telford will be walking down the red carpet for TIFF to launch a new entertainment production company called Hope & Hard Work on Friday. According to a launch party invitation circulated this week, Trudeau and Telford are expected to launch the…

U.S. President Donald Trump opened a new front in the trade war earlier this week, accusing Canada of running a currency “imbalance” two days before Canadian counter-tariffs took effect. “Canada’s (currency) dollar imbalance with the U.S. is unacceptable. It has been that way for years — but no longer!” he wrote in a social media…

Canada’s trade war with the United States is becoming more severe. Donald Trump has retaliated against Ottawa’s counter-tariffs with planned product bans, more duties and a move against Canadian goods in U.S. federal contracts. ‘We’re just a victim of it’: Nova Scotia businesses brace for prolonged trade war What you need to know about Bombardier…

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was in New York City on Thursday, urging Americans to return to two-way tariff-free trade between Canada and the U.S. “Let’s knock down those tariffs and focus on building a stronger North America for our two separate countries,” said Poilievre, during an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box. Poilievre is…