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The family of a Quebec teen who died after mixing energy drinks and medication is joined by school groups in calling for a ban on energy drink sales to youth under 16, citing health risks and growing support for tighter rules.

Hundreds of people outside a courtroom expressed shock and dismay Friday after an Ontario judge dismissed dangerous driving causing death charges against a driver who killed three members of a family in a Markham, Ont., crash.

OTTAWA — Political parties, particularly those that are close enough to smell power, are quick to describe themselves as “big tents.” With the addition this week of Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu, the Liberal party’s new tent — to riff off a crack going around some Parliament Hill circles — is now big enough to drive…

The University of British Columbia said it “does not condone” recent comments by a First Nations leader but did not indicate if it would take any action after the guest speaker at one of its events expressed her desire to see her political opponent get beaten and raped. UBC’s response comes after Charlene Belleau, an…

Nine in ten Iranian Canadians “strongly or somewhat support regime change in Iran,” according to a new community survey. The survey was conducted by the Metropolis Institute (a division of the Association for Canadian Studies) on behalf of the non-profit Advancement of Human Rights Organization for the Middle East (AHROME). Metropolis Institute distributed 1,768 surveys…

John Meissner has loved butter tarts since he was a little boy living at a farm in Guelph, Ont. But it wasn’t until he had an offensively bad butter tart while judging at a festival in February that he decided he needed to do something to conserve the original recipe of the dessert.

Canadians manufacturers of products ranging from sport and all-terrain vehicles to tools and moulds to transport trailers could be forced to curtail production after a tariff change imposed by the United States dramatically increased the cost of exporting their products. The plight of Quebec-based Sea-Doo maker BRP Inc. , which announced this week that its tariff…

People gathered in Coteau-du-Lac, Que., on Friday to remember Captain Antoine Forest. The 30-year-old was one of two Air Canada pilots killed in March when their aircraft collided with a fire truck on the runway of a New York airport.

Aamjiwnaang First Nation has filed a lawsuit, claiming Ineos, the plant next to the First Nation that processes and stores benezene, knowingly exposed people to dangerous levels of the cancer-causing chemical. Ineos has not filed a statement of defence or responded to a request for comment, and the allegations have not been tested in court.

The Ypsilanti, Mich., board of trustees unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday calling for a 12-month pause on providing water for data centers.