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Bank of Canada says house price increases in Vancouver, Toronto likely unsustainable
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Ottawa sinkhole inspires torrent of memes on social media
Rideau Street sinkhole spawns a gusher of irreverent commentary
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17 passengers evade pre-boarding security at Paris C-harles de Gaulle airport
Seventeen Air Canada passengers weren’t screened properly at Paris C-harles de Gaulle Airport, so all passengers had to go through security procedures again, right on the tarmac when they arrived in Canada.
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Canada Parliament Votes To Make National Anthem Gender-Neutral
Just two words would change, but not everyone is happy about the idea.
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Syrian refugee desperate to find niece after family dies in boat disaster
A Syrian refugee in Ontario, who has been desperately searching for her five-year-old niece since she was on a boat that capsized off the coast of Libya, is feeling overjoyed by news that the little girl may be with a Palestinian couple who also survived the wreck. 5
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Canadian PM apologises for elbowing female politician in the chest during Parliament fracas
PRIME Minister Justin Trudeau apologised before the Canadian Parliament for a third time Thursday, saying he expects better behaviour of himself after elbowing a female politician in the chest and grabbing another politician.
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Immigrant deaths expose 'legal black hole' of Canada's detention system
The death of 39-year-old Francisco Javier Romero Astorga while in custody of the Canada Border Services Agency is just the latest example of a system in need of repair, as activists clamor for independent oversight
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'I need help': Sophie Grégoire Trudeau's plea sparks anger in Canada
The role of the prime minister’s spouse has no real formal status in the Canadian system,
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Trudeau Announces He Will Visit Fort McMurray On Friday
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he'll visit fire-ravaged Fort McMurray, Alta., on Friday.
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Fort McMurray: firefighters get ‘death grip’ on wildfire
OFFICIALS say they have reached a turning point in fighting an enormous wildfire, hoping to get a “death grip”’ on the blaze that ravaged parts of Canada’s oil sands town of Fort McMurray amid cooler temperatures and light rain.
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Canadian Officials Start To Get Handle On Massive Wildfire
The inferno looks set to become the costliest natural disaster in Canada’s history.
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The fire in Canada looks a lot like climate change -- and that should scare you
The fire raging in Fort McMurray, Canada sounds like something f-rom the apocalypse.
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Cross-Border Shopping: Americans Are Flocking To Canada To Buy Their Goods
There's an upside to a low loonie — and Canadian retailers are seeing it first-hand.
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Canadian hostage killed by Philippine extremists
The decapitated head of a white male found Monday night in the southern Philippines belonged to a Canadian taken hostage by Abu Sayyaf militants in September, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed in a statement Monday.
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'Liberal' Trudeau joins blood-soaked race for arms deals with Mideast despots Finian Cunningham Finian Cunningham (bor
In a remarkable spectacle of money-grubbing over arms deals, this month saw a parade of Western leaders jettisoning any pretense of upholding vaunted “liberal values” to court despotic Mideast regimes.
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More details are emerging about how a high-school basketball star who is accused of being 29 years old was caught
In a bizarre story on Thursday, the Windsor Star reported that Jonathon Nicola, a Canadian high-school basketball star, may actually be 29 years old.
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Why an alleged 29-year-old posed as a teenage basketball player
One morning last spring, Gregory Dole received a call f-rom a friend with whom he'd played high school basketball in Tanzania nearly two decades ago.
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Justin Trudeau Gives Snarky Reporter A Lesson In Quantum Computing
“Don’t interrupt me,” the Canadian PM quipped.
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