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Kelly McParland: Can a broke and battered NDP deliver utopia?
Journalistic tradition dictates that the New Democratic Party be treated as an organization of consequence, with lengthy historical roots and some significant achievements. Lately it hasn’t been acting like it, though. Its standing in the House of Commons slipped to fourth place three elections ago and shows little sign of revival. Its seven paltry seats…
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The surprise fight for the trademark of a notorious outlaw biker club with a deadly history
A fight for ownership of the trademark for an outlaw motorcycle club’s patch — a logo notorious from a biker war that killed more than 160 people — has been settled by federal bureaucrats at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. In a strange clash of corporate rules meeting biker culture, the mother of a former…
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Why Quebec wants to protect the cheese curds it claims are necessary to make ‘original’ poutine
Quebec is moving forward with plans to shield its poutine cheese curds with protected geographical status. The Conseil des Industriels Laitiers du Québec (CILQ), the province’s dairy industry association, is pushing for a “Protected Geographical Indication” (PGI), which would enable provincial producers to identify their cheese curds as protected with an official designation seal. To…
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Most anti-Black racism recommendations completed at UWindsor, but some still waiting for more action
The University of Windsor says it has completed nearly 90 per cent of the anti-Black racism recommendations stemming from a special task force on campus, but some are pushing for more progress.
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Safety advocates concerned by 23 school bus crashes this year in southwestern Ontario
Road and school bus safety advocates say they’re saddened but not surprised following a rash of school bus-related collisions in southwestern Ontario since the year began.
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Mideast war to test world economy, ‘new shocks’ will keep coming, says IMF chief
International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva said the war in the Middle East will test global economic resilience and warned that “new shocks in different shapes and sizes” will keep coming. Underscoring the IMF’s concern at the suffering and loss of life resulting from the Middle East crisis , Georgieva warned that a…
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Canadian tourist drowned in Australia as a result of a dingo attack, authorities say
Authorities in Australia have determined that 19-year-old Canadian tourist Piper James of Campbell River, B.C., who died in January drowned after sustaining injuries from a dingo attack.
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B.C. premier says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will apologize to Tumbler Ridge, push for stronger regulations
The company behind ChatGPT is facing waves of criticism after it came out that the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar — who police say killed eight people, including six children, in Tumbler Ridge on Feb. 10 — wasn’t reported to police despite posts about gun violence.
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Jury finds man guilty of 5 counts of 2nd-degree murder in Winnipeg drug house shootings
A jury has found a man accused of fatally shooting five people at a Winnipeg rooming house in 2023 guilty of five counts of second-degree murder.
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Khalistani extremist social media account takes responsibility for killing of Windsor, Ont., woman
A social media account promoting Sikh extremist views is claiming responsibility for the stabbing of a Windsor woman in LaSalle this week.