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The latest raft of sanctions includes more US officials, media personalities, and Canada’s John Tory and Doug Ford. Russia has issued fresh retaliatory sanctions, including travel bans on United States Vice President Kamala Harris, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, the Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, and Toronto’s Mayor John Tory. The …

Canada’s ruling Liberal Party said on Wednesday that if re-elected it would raise the corporate tax rate paid by the most profitable banks and insurers by 3 percentage points on all earnings over C$1 billion ($793 million). The party also vowed to establish a special dividend, so that those same …

Protesters have toppled statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II in the Canadian city of Winnipeg as anger grows over the discovery of the remains of hundreds of children in unmarked graves at former indigenous schools. A crowd chanted “no pride in genocide” before pulling down the statues of …

Four people killed after a car jumped the curb and ran into them on Sunday night were deliberately targeted in an anti-Islamic hate crime, Canadian police said on Monday. “It was pre-planned and premeditated and that’s why first-degree murder charges were laid,” London Detective Superintendent Paul Waight told reporters. Waight …

Protesters have toppled and beheaded a statue of Egerton Ryerson, an architect of Canada’s infamous residential school system for indigenous children, amid growing anger over the recent discovery of mass graves at one such school. The incident occurred on Sunday following a rally held at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto. …

Just days after the brutal killing of prominent Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey in the fall of 2018, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman dispatched a group of hitmen, known as the Tiger Squad, to Canada to seek out and kill one of his former top intelligence officials who had …

One person is dead following a daytime shooting in Toronto’s Corsa Italia neighborhood. According to Toronto Police, on Friday morning at 11:40 am, they received calls reporting multiple gunshots heard in the area of St. Clair Avenue West and St. Clarens Avenue. Police on scene confirmed the shooting and said …