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Seeking damages of more than $3 million, Leslyn Lewis, the MP for Haldimand-Norfolk in rural southern Ontario and a former leadership candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada, has brought a defamation claim against her alma mater law school at York University and a professor of refugee law over Lewis’s failed application to a scholar…

STRASBOURG, FRANCE — Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed the European Unions’ invitation to become its first ever “associate member,” pitching Canadian energy and critical minerals in exchange for knocking down trade and travel barriers as well as deeper integration on tech, defence and artificial intelligence. On Thursday morning, Carney delivered a speech to hundreds of…

Autoparts billionaire Frank Stronach, 94, is due in a Toronto courtroom Thursday morning for a sentencing hearing for the crime of indecently assaulting a woman in a Toronto apartment in 1977. Justice Anne Molloy, who found Stronach guilty in June, is to hear Crown and defence arguments before sentencing him for a crime that technically…

A judge in Hamilton, Ont., has resisted a drug dealer’s attempt to get a lighter sentence because he might be deported to Jamaica. Hopeton McFarlane pleaded guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice to possession of fentanyl for the purpose of trafficking. His lawyer argued unsuccessfully for a conditional sentence, the Crown recommended three years…

The U.S. Federal Reserve has done what markets overwhelmingly expected (and President Donald Trump vehemently opposed) and raised its policy interest rate to a target range of 3.75 per cent to four per cent — its first hike in three years — as inflation remains stubbornly above the central bank’s two per cent target. “The…

PENTICTON, B.C. — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre rallied his caucus on Wednesday in the Okanagan Valley by vowing to take a big cut out of government spending. Poilievre’s own climb up the political mountain is looking steeper than ever and, with a new parliamentary session opening next week, he told the majority of his caucus…

Monetary policy makers at the Bank of Canada were confident that the economy was on stronger footing ahead of the latest round of tariffs but concerned about whether that momentum could be sustained amid heightened inflation risks and trade war uncertainty, as they debated where to take the policy interest rate earlier this month. The…

Air Canada says they are investigating after antisemitic comments were made by an in-flight service director on social media. Airline spokesperson Sean Davidson confirmed to National Post in a written statement on Wednesday that the individual was “removed from service” and there is a “full investigation underway.” A Facebook account with the same name as…

B.C.’s Conservative Party has been rocked with defections in recent weeks, mere months after Kerry-Lynne Findlay was elected leader. The events are the latest in a couple of years of turmoil in right-of-centre politics in B.C. as the Conservative Party has grown as the main opposition to the governing NDP. Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer…

Two men charged in the spectacular Toronto Pearson Airport gold heist have had all charges against them dropped. Both men, Ali Raza and Amit Jalota, were accused of helping to move and melt the stolen gold after the heist in which a shipping crate containing $22 million in gold and cash was stolen from an…