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New Democrat MP Laurel Collins’ private member’s bill has support from Liberals and Conservatives to outlaw behaviour an abuser often uses to cause fear and isolate a victim from friends and family, like restricting their movements or access to money.  New Democrat MP Laurel Collins’ private member’s bill has support …

Police received several calls about gunshots near Yeshiva Gedola of Montreal, located on Deacon Road in the Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood, at around 5 a.m. Sunday. It’s the second time the school was targeted this week.  Police say facade of Yeshiva Gedola of Montreal struck, no one was injured. Montreal police are …

Senior diplomat Julie Sunday says the situation at the Rafah border crossing is complex and “profoundly frustrating.” Senior diplomat Julie Sunday says Ottawa ready for possible evacuation from Lebanon. A senior Canadian diplomat says the situation around the stop-start evacuation of Canadians from Gaza has been “profoundly frustrating,” with the …

One person is believed to be dead on a property near the U.S. border in Langley, B.C., after a fire broke out during a large-scale police operation Friday, the RCMP said Saturday. B.C.’s police watchdog, the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. (IIOBC), confirmed to CBC News that it is now …

It’s been a rough couple of weeks across the eastern half of Canada as bouts of snow and ice covered trees, snarled traffic, and even brought frigid thunderstorms. Consider next week’s pattern an atmospheric gift for dealing with the snowy, frosty weather. A spell of above-seasonal temperatures will slide east …

Police have cleared out a Toronto library after it received a bomb threat on Saturday morning. Officers received a report of a bomb threat at the Toronto Reference Library at 8:44 a.m. on Nov. 11, shortly before it was scheduled to open at 9 a.m. Following the incident at the …

We have a problem with talking about war in this country. That might be a strange sentiment to convey on Remembrance Day, but it is informed by so much history — recent and distant, on and off the battlefield. That’s not to say that we should in any way grow …

Toronto’s mayor is appealing for calm and calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict Friday as Toronto police’s hate crime unit investigates a vandalism incident at a downtown Indigo store.  Olivia Chow says she knows some Torontonians are grieving, feel afraid. Toronto’s mayor is appealing for calm and calling …

That the Liberal government’s carbon tax will feature in the next election, whenever it happens, is a safe prediction. But it would be more accurate to say the next election will be a climate change election — because every election is a climate change election now.  It’s a safe bet …

Before he became known as being a Group of Seven painter, Arthur Lismer lived in Halifax for three years. For part of that time, he documented wartime Halifax as an artist for the Canadian War Memorials Fund. Lismer was one of around 120 artists who produced art for the Canadian …