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OTTAWA — Indigenous lawyer Leighton Grey was the surprise star of an Alberta independence rally at the provincial legislature in Edmonton over the weekend. Grey, a criminal defence attorney and Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation member based in Cold Lake, Alta., delighted the pro-independence crowd when he laid out his vision for a future Alberta…

Driverless taxis have been operating in United States cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles for a while now, but the higgledy-piggledy, rainy streets of London present a far greater challenge. For the past few years, Wayve Technologies Ltd. has been testing a fleet of cars equipped with the British artificial intelligence startup’s autonomous driving…

Bitcoin is back above US$80,000. The question is whether it can stay there. The cryptocurrency jumped as much as four per cent on Thursday as stocks rose, Treasury yields fell and the dollar weakened after Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller signalled he would support keeping interest rates unchanged if inflation continues to ease. The move…

Three Ontario byelections delivered status quo results on Thursday night, with the Progressive Conservatives holding two ridings and the NDP retaining the third. The victories in York-Simcoe and Hamilton East-Stoney Creek were a bounce-back of sorts for Premier Doug Ford, who suffered a string of dismal poll results in the spring after the ill-fated purchase…

A “scheduling issue,” and not deepening political friction or American barbs at Canada’s military, is to blame for a U.S. Air Force demo team pulling out of the Canadian International Air Show in Toronto this weekend, organizers said. In a social media post earlier this week, organizers of “North America’s longest running air show” held…

Lululemon Athletica Inc. reported a tough second quarter on Thursday as revenue, profits and comparable sales all declined year over year. The Vancouver-based athletic apparel retailer reported a four per cent drop in year-over-year net revenue to US$2.4 billion, in line with analysts’ forecasts. Net income was US$329 million, up from US$195 million in the…

Amid bitter trade tensions with the Trump administration, a redesigned Canadian $20 bank note was officially unveiled Thursday featuring a portrait of King Charles, who hailed Canada as “indeed strong and free” amid hostility from the U.S. The new vertical note, the second in the Bank of Canada’s vertical series, was held out at an…

A 618-page report from 1986 examining the postwar arrival in Canada of those alleged of Nazi war crimes still hasn’t been fully declassified, but certain segments must now be made public, according to a recent Federal Court ruling. In a 21-page ruling issued Tuesday, Justice Simon Fothergill said the public interest in preserving the historical…

U.S. President Donald Trump said 50 per cent tariffs targeting Canada’s aircraft industry was prompted by a complaint from a friend who couldn’t buy the corporate jet of his choosing. Trump made the remark during a six-minute-long rant about Canada in the Oval Office on Wednesday. “I had a case about a week ago, where…

OTTAWA — The Carney government needs to be more transparent in identifying which types of major projects are national priorities, says a leading think tank on the eve of a major Canadian investment summit. In an open letter to be released Friday, the C.D. Howe Institute said Canada also needs to be clearer about processes…