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The winner of the multimillion-dollar case of 1979-1980 O-Pee-Chee hockey cards — the set that contains Wayne Gretzky’s rookie card — says he no longer wants them and is trying to find them a “better home.”  Buyer says he wants to find ‘better home’ for cards, floats Wayne Gretzky, Drake …

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she’s willing to go to court to block the federal government from going straight to municipalities to make deals on housing. The federal government says that approach will only slow down construction.  Smith looking to require provincial oversight of federal-municipal deals. Federal officials and Alberta …

Rivoire, an Oblate priest from France, has long faced allegations he sexually abused children in Nunavut in the 1960s and 1970s. He spent more than 30 years working as a priest in the territory, mostly in Arviat and Naujaat.  Johannes Rivoire was 93 when he died on Thursday. A priest …

Two of Brampton City Hall’s highest paid employees don’t even work there. Ontario’s recently released Sunshine List of public sector employees who make over $100,000 reveals that two former Brampton employees — one fired in 2018 and the other fired in 2022 — took home over $1.5 million combined last …

A brazen cyber-heist of $14.2 million has sparked a bizarre court battle between one of Canada’s largest banks and one of the country’s biggest cryptocurrency services business. Nearly three months after hackers wired millions out of Canadian Western Bank’s accounts payable system, a B.C. Supreme Court judge unfroze accounts this …

Happy middle of April! There’s a chance of snow next week in almost every Canadian province. It’s a tough reality check this time of year. April carries spring on its breezes, after all. Flower petals float through the sky as a blanket of pollen turns everything a sneezy shade of …

Cities, towns and villages in British Columbia have been busy since 2017 applying for and spending money under a provincial fund meant to shore up dikes, stabilize slopes and plant trees, but the municipal federation that administers the fund says more is needed.  Municipal federation says sustained provincial funding required …

The federal NDP and Green Party are calling on the federal government to introduce a new law similar to one used by the U.S. for 9/11 victims to address problems with six Indigenous class action lawsuit settlement agreements. Proposal comes after CBC News reports on claims that day school survivors …

Tabled in response to the 2021 attack that left four members of a Muslim family in Ontario dead and a young boy injured, the Our London Family Act was meant to bring legislative change to fight Islamophobia. Two years later, the bill’s goals remain unrealized. More than 2 years after …

Local health authorities are investigating, after Normand Meunier, who has been paralyzed in both arms and legs since 2022, sought a medically assisted death after developing a huge bedsore while lying on a stretcher in the ER of the Saint-Jérôme, Que., hospital. ‘Whole story is a crying shame,’ says advocate. …