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• Air Transat pilots vote overwhelmingly for strike mandate

  03-12-2025 15:44 via globalnews.ca
  The Air Line Pilots Association, which represents Air Transat pilots, opened voting last month on a strike mandate. On Wednesday, 99 per cent voted in favour of a strike.
  
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• Law licence suspended for Ontario lawyer accused of helping ex-snowboarder Ryan Wedding's narco cartel

  05-12-2025 18:17 via nationalpost.com
  Prominent Ontario lawyer Deepak Paradkar had his law licence suspended Friday while criminal courts in two countries deal with shocking allegations of him being a member of a powerful cocaine cartel, including helping orchestrate the murder of a U.S. government witness The Law Society of Ontario, which regulates the province’s lawyers, sought the unusual restriction on Paradkar after his arrest last week as part of an enormous international probe into a violent narco cartel that is allege
  
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• Finch West LRT will be free to ride when it opens on Sunday

  05-12-2025 17:52 via globalnews.ca
  The Finch West LRT, which will begin running before 8 a.m. Sunday, won't charge riders to use it on opening day, with activities planned to celebrate its launch.
  
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• Compensation Air Canada ordered to pay for delayed bag lacks 'common sense': federal court

  05-12-2025 17:50 via nationalpost.com
  Air Canada has prevailed in the Federal Court against a recent Canadian Transportation Agency decision that the judge said lacked “common sense.”
    The case involves two passengers travelling on an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Vancouver on May 25, 2022, planning to return three days later. However, a bag didn’t arrive in Vancouver when they did. Instead, Air Canada delivered it to their hotel the following morning, on May 26.(The name of the case indicates that the re
  
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• Supreme Court restores woman’s conviction for attempted murder of her mother

  05-12-2025 17:43 via globalnews.ca
  The Supreme Court of Canada has restored a woman's conviction for attempting to kill her mother by injecting her with insulin.
  
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• OPP arrest allegedly impaired Brampton driver accused of going almost 200km/h

  05-12-2025 17:33 via globalnews.ca
  OPP say a 22-year-old Brampton man was arrested after allegedly driving 193 km/h on Highway 410 while impaired. The driver is facing 10 charges, police say.
  
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• ‘Cocaine lawyer’ for Ryan Wedding has legal licence suspended in Ontario

  05-12-2025 17:03 via globalnews.ca
  An Ontario lawyer accused by American authorities of advising a Canadian Olympian-turned-alleged-cocaine kingpin has had his licence to practice law suspended.
  
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• Sask. introduces involuntary treatment legislation as fall sitting ends

  05-12-2025 16:56 via cbc.ca
  In its throne speech, the provincial government touted The Compassionate Intervention Act as a key component in its response to the ongoing drug addictions crisis.
  
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• The FIFA Men’s World Cup Draw: Here’s how it works

  05-12-2025 16:49 via globalnews.ca
  Canada finds out its group opponents today for next summer’s expanded 48-nation FIFA World Cup at the tournament draw in Washington, D.C.
  
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• Canadian economy did better than expected under U.S. tariffs: IMF report

  05-12-2025 16:49 via globalnews.ca
  The report says the impact of the trade dispute was mitigated by exemptions under the free trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico.
  
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• Toronto model says she was kicked out of Uber for being Jewish

  05-12-2025 16:25 via nationalpost.com
  A Toronto model says her Uber driver kicked her out of the vehicle into the dark night because she was Jewish. “What happened isn’t just an unpleasant moment. It’s a reminder of why speaking up matters,” Miriam Mattova, 33, told National Post. “And discrimination must be met with accountability, not silence.” Mattova is a Jewish Slovakian-Canadian model and former Miss Slovakia. She said the incident occurred just after midnight on Nov. 30. Her friend ordered
  
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• Carney heads to Washington to meet Trump, Sheinbaum at FIFA draw

  05-12-2025 15:33 via globalnews.ca
  The FIFA draw ceremony will mark the first time Prime Minister Mark Carney, U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will be in the same room.
  
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• Carney arrives in Washington to meet Trump, Sheinbaum at FIFA draw

  05-12-2025 15:33 via globalnews.ca
  The FIFA draw ceremony will mark the first time Prime Minister Mark Carney, U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will be in the same room.
  
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• Quebec losing $1.5B a year as anglophones face high unemployment, lower wages: report

  05-12-2025 15:15 via globalnews.ca
  A new report finds anglophones face higher unemployment and lower wages in Quebec; gaps that researchers say carry major economic consequences.
  
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• Canada added 54,000 jobs in November as unemployment rate falls

  05-12-2025 14:56 via globalnews.ca
  Canada's national unemployment rate fell 0.4 per cent in November to 6.5 per cent, and marks the second straight monthly decline in the unemployment rate.
  
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• Canada's Summer McIntosh wins 400M freestyle by more than 15 seconds at U.S. Open swim meet

  05-12-2025 14:31 via cbc.ca
  Canada's Summer McIntosh set a new U.S. Open record in the women's 400-metre freestyle on Thursday night at the Toyota U.S. Open Championships.
  
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• Industry experts question Saab’s pitch to bring 10,000 jobs to Canada

  05-12-2025 14:27 via globalnews.ca
  Critics are questioning the solidity of Saab's pitch to deliver 10,000 jobs in Canada if it decides to set up shop here to assemble Gripen fighter jets.
  
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• Newfoundland girl’s disappearance prompts calls for tougher laws to stop abductions

  05-12-2025 12:32 via globalnews.ca
  The girl’s disappearance underscores long-standing concerns about the ease with which a parent can take a child to another country without the other parent’s knowledge or consent. 
  
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• TTC maintenance, asbestos cleanup delaying parts of Rogers’ 5G subway network build

  05-12-2025 12:14 via globalnews.ca
  Asbestos cleanup, tight work windows and other TTC delays have slowed the build out of 5G cellular service in Toronto's subway system.
  
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• Liberals maintain 43 per cent support amongst decided Canadian voters: exclusive poll

  05-12-2025 12:00 via nationalpost.com
  The federal Liberals are holding 43 per cent of support amongst decided Canadian voters, maintaining a lead over the Conservatives, who dropped two points last month to 36 per cent, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll. Support for the Liberals has not changed since a Nov. 3 poll. The Bloc Québécois, meanwhile, gained two points amongst decided voters to sit at nine per cent support, and the NDP was up one point with eight per cent support, according to the survey conducted Nov.
  
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• Canadians support sending troops to Poland if Russia invades: poll

  05-12-2025 12:00 via nationalpost.com
  Two thirds of Canadians support sending our troops to countries such as Poland if Russia invades, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll. “You’d like to think that this is really kind of a super hypothetical pie-in-the-sky kind of question. But unfortunately, crazy things are happening all around the world,” Andrew Enns, Leger’s executive vice-president for Central Canada, said Thursday. Support is lower among women, at 56 per cent, and higher among men, at 76 per cent o
  
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• What happens to the wood from this burnt forest?

  05-12-2025 11:00 via cbc.ca
  The cleanup of the Long Lake wildfire in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis County has begun. So what happens to the thousands of hectares of forest that was burned? The CBC’s Aly Thomson went to West Dalhousie to find out.
  
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• Long-awaited electronic medical records system to launch Saturday at IWK Health Centre

  05-12-2025 11:00 via cbc.ca
  If all goes according to plan, at 6 a.m. AT on Saturday people working at the IWK Health Centre will become the test case for a generational change to Nova Scotia’s health-care system.
  
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• After she was scammed by a fake holiday market, the real organizers stepped up to help

  05-12-2025 10:30 via cbc.ca
  A small business owner in Mount Pearl says she was the victim of a scam, and is warning others ahead of the holidays.
  
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• After being scammed by fake holiday market, the real organizers stepped up to help

  05-12-2025 10:30 via cbc.ca
  A small business owner in Mount Pearl says she was the victim of a scam, and is warning others ahead of the holidays.
  
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• Will Carney's energy deal with Alberta give him clout against Trump's tariffs?

  05-12-2025 10:00 via nationalpost.com
  WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the government’s new energy deal with Alberta, including plans for an oil pipeline to the West Coast, Prime Minister Mark Carney is determined to forge a new export route to gain leverage in trade talks with Washington. But two questions remain: will the plan have any impact on U.S. President Donald Trump and, perhaps more importantly, will the pipeline ever actually get built? Some analysts says that boosting oil exports to Asia could give the federal governm
  
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• Police find 'I hate my child' search made on couple's device 2 days before boy, 12, died

  05-12-2025 10:00 via cbc.ca
  The first-degree murder trial of Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber in Milton, Ont., heard texts in which the women questioned whether a boy in their care might be dying a month before his death in December 2022.
  
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• Take-home DNA test reunites Quebec man with long-lost Dutch brother after 80 years

  05-12-2025 04:17 via globalnews.ca
  An at-home DNA test given as a birthday gift solved an 80-year family mystery by revealing that a man in Quebec and a man in the Netherlands were long-lost brothers.
  
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• Somali communities say ‘people feel insecure and live in fear’ after Trump's tirade

  05-12-2025 03:41 via cbc.ca
  Many people in the Somali community say they feel fearful and angry in the aftermath of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tirade against Somali communities in Minnesota.
  
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• Calgary’s budget applauded but ‘sustainability’ of spending questioned

  05-12-2025 02:37 via globalnews.ca
  To partly reduce the property tax increase, Calgary city council tapped into $50 million of investment income to help pay for city operations.
  
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