A year ago, police revealed that a massive amount of gold and money had been stolen from a warehouse at Toronto's Pearson airport. Despite intensive investigative efforts, no arrests have been made and the valuable cargo is still unaccounted for. Police say investigation continues The Air Canada flight leaving Zurich, …
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Netflix documentary revives interest in Canadian murder-for-hire case
The documentary What Jennifer Did explores the life of Jennifer Pan and the complicated series of events that led to hitmen killing her mother and severely wounding her father in Markham, Ont., in a case that was granted a new trial last year. What Jennifer Did focuses on Jennifer Pan …
Read More »Experts predict tax hikes in budget as Trudeau government stretches to pay for its promises
Economists and experts say they're expecting the federal government to raise taxes in Tuesday's budget to help offset billions of dollars in new spending already promised in the pre-budget announcements that have been landing almost daily since the end of March. Sources say the Liberals are anxious to avoid anything …
Read More »Cattle are boosting the soil on this P.E.I. farm — and fighting climate change
Sally Bernard is learning more about how to graze cattle on her organic grain farm through research as one of this year's Nuffield Canada scholars. Freetown, P.E.I., farmer wins national scholarship to study benefits of grazing livestock on crop land Sally Bernard's black and white cows wander over a field …
Read More »Shooting blanks: Why so many Canadian defence policies fail to launch
With absolutely no exceptions, every defence policy presented by the Canadian government over the past five decades has presented a vision of the world beyond our borders going to hell in a handbasket. The wars may be different, the adversaries might change, threats might have evolved — but the language …
Read More »Winning bidder for multimillion-dollar Gretzky card case says he’s changed his mind
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 …
Read More »Johannes Rivoire, priest accused of sexually abusing children in Nunavut, dies
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 …
Read More »Rescue of trapped killer whale calf in B.C. underway, First Nation says
Members of the Ehattesaht First Nation, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Vancouver Aquarium have begun a rescue operation to move a stranded killer whale calf out of a remote Vancouver Island lagoon and into open water, the nation says. kʷiisaḥiʔis, or Brave Little Hunter, has been stuck in a …
Read More »Rescue of trapped orca calf paused as whale thwarts efforts
Members of the Ehattesaht First Nation, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Vancouver Aquarium have begun a rescue operation to move a stranded killer whale calf out of a remote Vancouver Island lagoon and into open water, the nation says. kʷiisaḥiʔis, or Brave Little Hunter, has been stuck in a …
Read More »CSIS chief returns to foreign interference inquiry as PM casts doubt on reliability of agency’s reports
The head of Canada's spy agency is appearing again before the public inquiry investigating foreign meddling in elections after multiple witnesses suggested they were not briefed by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service about intelligence it gathered on Chinese interference. Witnesses suggest they were not briefed fully by Canada's spy agency …
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