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Apr 01, 2026
Canada's finance minister François-Philippe Champagne is in China to continue diversifying trading partners and strengthen the economy. This visit follows that of Prime Minister Mark Carney earlier this year as U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war has driven more and more countries to turn toward China, the world's second-largest economy.
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Apr 01, 2026
President Donald Trump has been pressuring U.S. oil and gas executives to invest in Venezuela's energy sector, nearly three months after the toppling of former president Nicolás Maduro, as the country is said to have the largest crude oil reserves in the world.
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Apr 01, 2026
As the war in the Middle East continues, crude oil prices are hovering well above the $100 US mark — a pressure that is starting to weigh on consumer-facing, fuel-guzzling businesses like airlines, shipping couriers and rideshare companies.
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Mar 31, 2026
The countdown is on for NASA's Artemis II mission, which will launch as early as Wednesday evening and take four astronauts around the moon in the first lunar voyage in over 50 years. Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is set to make history as the first Canadian to fly around the moon.
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Mar 31, 2026
Armed men mounted further attacks Tuesday in Haiti's Artibonite ?region, a key agricultural area. The attacks came days after a gang's weekend assault in the area of Jean-Denis left some 70 people dead, according to human rights groups and local residents.
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Mar 31, 2026
Richmond RCMP say officers were out in a targeted enforcement at a cherry blossom viewing site over the weekend, and at one point 50 vehicles were illegally parked, disrupting traffic and creating safety hazards.
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Mar 31, 2026
Provincial rules around alcohol and the federal government's "Buy Canadian" policy have been flagged in a new report citing several trade irritants between Canada and the U.S.
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Mar 31, 2026
March 31, 2026 | Canadians honour politician, diplomat and human rights activist Stephen Lewis after his death from cancer at 88. CBC News looks inside China's electric vehicle manufacturing ecosystem and what it could mean for North America. And NASA's final preparations for the historic Artemis II launch.
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Mar 31, 2026
Wildlife advocates say Ottawa's authorization of the emergency use of strychnine in Alberta and Saskatchewan to target gophers is a disappointing reversal of a previous decision rejecting its use.
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Mar 31, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump says a U.S. takeover of one of Iran's most critical assets — Kharg Island — could happen "very easily," but experts warn the reality is far more complicated. Andrew Chang breaks down why even a successful assault could lead to heavy losses and uncertain gains.
Images provided by The Canadian Press, Adobe Stock, Reuters and Getty Images
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Mar 31, 2026
Tensions in the Canada-U.S. relationship are playing out in border towns in both countries. Border Road, which connects Sweet Grass Hills, Mont., and Coutts, Alta., will be closed to Canadians starting in July. Wheat farmer Roger Horgus grew up on the American side. He says the move he says will create unnecessary barriers.
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Mar 31, 2026
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to suspend its construction of a $400 million US ballroom on the site where it demolished the East Wing of the White House, barring construction work from proceeding without congressional approval.
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Mar 31, 2026
What defines an Alberta whisky like one might define a Kentucky or Tennessee bourbon? The provincial government says it has come up with some rules.
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Mar 31, 2026
What defines an Alberta whisky like one might define a Kentucky or Tennessee bourbon? The provincial government says it has come up with some rules — and it used AI to help draft them.
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Mar 31, 2026
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.
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Mar 31, 2026
Tania Warner's husband, Edward Warner, says a judge set the bond for his wife at $9,500 US.
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Mar 31, 2026
The Trump administration has exempted oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act after U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said environmentalists' lawsuits threatened to hobble domestic energy supplies as the U.S. wages war against Iran.
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Mar 31, 2026
The federal public health agency is taking over administration of a program that compensates people who have been injured by vaccines, months after Health Minister Marjorie Michel ordered an audit of the program following complaints about its administration.
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Mar 31, 2026
A man who repeatedly sexually abused two children in his care roughly three decades ago has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, in a case whose details a judge described as "horrendous."
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Mar 31, 2026
The Toronto Maple Leafs entered this season with their sights set on two goals — keeping the NHL's longest active playoff streak alive and (no snickering, fans of other teams) finally hoisting the city's first Stanley Cup since before the moon landing. To say it hasn't worked out would be an understatement.
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Mar 31, 2026
Last week, a Canada goose found its way into a building at Wilfrid Laurier University's Waterloo, Ont., campus and was captured by several witnesses on video trying to fly away, causing students to run for cover. The goose's capers went viral on social media.
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Mar 31, 2026
Add the three-day Barbie Dream Fest in Fort Lauderdale to the list of highly marketed conventions that didn't live up to the hype.
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Mar 31, 2026
Tiger Woods's eyes were bloodshot and glassy, his pupils dilated, and he had hydrocodone pills in his pocket when interviewed at the scene of his car crash last week in Florida, according to a sheriff's office report released Tuesday.
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Mar 31, 2026
Tiger Woods entered a not guilty plea in his driving under the influence case in Florida on Tuesday, hours after a sheriff's report said he had pain pills and showed signs of impairment at the scene of the crash last week in Florida.
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Mar 31, 2026
Tiger Woods said he'll step away and seek treatment on Tuesday, days after his vehicle crashed in Florida and he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.
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Mar 31, 2026
A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered Gilbert Rozon, the Just For Laughs founder, to pay just under a little more than $880,000 to eight of the nine women who have accused him of sexual assault and misconduct in a civil trial.
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Mar 31, 2026
Police say genetic testing has been used to confirm a homicide victim found in Quebec in 1979 was a woman who had been reported missing months earlier from Ontario.
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Mar 31, 2026
Closing submissions have begun in the sexual assault trial of Canadian businessman Frank Stronach.
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Mar 31, 2026
The women who testified they were sexually assaulted by Frank Stronach all failed "quite miserably" on credibility and reliability, meaning the court should find the Canadian businessman not guilty, his lawyer argued on Tuesday.
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Mar 31, 2026
Canada will learn today which country it will face to open the FIFA World Cup on June 12. The winner of today's playoff game between Italy and Bosnia and Herzegovina will join Canada, Qatar and Switzerland in Group B at the tournament.
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Mar 31, 2026
Bosnia-Herzegovina defeated Italy 1-1 (4-1) in penalties in a World Cup qualifier playoff final and will now join Canada, Qatar and Switzerland in Group B at the tournament, and face Canada in Toronto on June 12.
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Mar 31, 2026
Canada's economy saw slight growth in January, as gains in goods-producing industries like mining offset a slowdown in manufacturing, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday.
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Mar 31, 2026
Canada's economy saw slight growth in January, as gains in goods-producing industries like mining offset a slowdown in manufacturing, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday.
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Mar 31, 2026
The U.S. Army said on Monday it was investigating why military helicopters were operating near the house of singer Kid Rock, seemingly in support of the vocal backer of U.S. President Donald ?Trump, and also near anti-Trump protests.
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Mar 31, 2026
King Charles and Queen Camilla will make a state visit to the United States this spring, Buckingham Palace has announced.
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Mar 31, 2026
Masai Ujiri is returning to professional basketball in Toronto. Ujiri officially joined the ownership group of the WNBA's Toronto Tempo on Tuesday after spending 12 years in the front office of the NBA's Toronto Raptors.
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Mar 31, 2026
Premier Wab Kinew says his government's gas tax holiday was the most important thing a Manitoba government has ever done. In 2024, Kinew's NDP government suspended the 14 cents per litre gas tax for an entire year, a move that cost the province $340 million in tax revenue.
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Mar 31, 2026
There is now one less way to get weather information in Canada. Environment and Climate Change Canada is ending its long-running Weatheradio service. It comes after ECCC closed many of its weather accounts on social media specific to provinces and territories.
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Mar 31, 2026
That The Drama blossoms into a subversive investigation into the limits of empathy doesn't really matter. All that will matter is the disappointment theatre-goers will feel walking out of a supposed rom-com they expected to be like Sleepless in Seattle, but that instead feels closer to Midsommar.
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Mar 31, 2026
Empty bags of Big Mac and McChicken sauce have been washing up along the Bay of Fundy recently. And local residents are not lovin' it.
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Mar 31, 2026
The United States hit the central Iranian city of Isfahan early Tuesday, sending a massive fireball into the sky, and Tehran struck a fully loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker in the Persian Gulf.
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Mar 31, 2026
The United States hit the central Iranian city of Isfahan early Tuesday, sending a massive fireball into the sky, and Tehran struck a fully loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker in the Persian Gulf.
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Mar 31, 2026
The United States hit the central Iranian city of Isfahan early Tuesday, sending a massive fireball into the sky, and Tehran struck a fully loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker in the Persian Gulf.
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Mar 31, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out Tuesday at allies who have been unwilling to do more to support the U.S. war effort against Iran, telling them to "go get your own oil" and saying it was not America's job to secure the Strait of Hormuz.
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Mar 31, 2026
Former patients of a dental clinic in Brantford, Ont., are being warned by Grand Erie Public Health to get tested for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV due to an infection prevention and control lapse investigation.
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Mar 31, 2026
A longtime federal public servant says she's become "collateral damage" as her department clears its backlog of Phoenix payroll issues so it can test replacement software — and in doing so introduced an error to her file, refused to fix it and is now clawing back hundreds of dollars per paycheque.
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Mar 31, 2026
As of Wednesday, the federal government will require provinces and territories to start to pay for primary care services, including those provided by nurse practitioners. The new policy aims to ensure Canadians aren't being billed for "medically necessary services."
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Mar 31, 2026
Sherry Bagnato isn't a millennial or a screenager. She's a 67-year-old retired Toronto mother of two, and her phone habits have flipped the script at home. Now, she admits, it's her adult children telling her to put the device down.
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Mar 31, 2026
Mountains that normally see their peak snowpack in March are brown this year, thanks to a spring heat dome that baked western U.S. for much of the second half of the month. That's raising alarm bells for the fire season that's already ramping up.
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Mar 31, 2026
Scam victims feel an increasing sense that the Canadian justice system is overly lenient on the people who took advantage of them.
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Mar 31, 2026
Internal documents show airlines and then Transport Minister Anita Anand pressed the Canadian Transportation Agency to scale back a proposed complaints fee — raising concerns about political interference.
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Mar 30, 2026
Ottawa is authorizing the controlled and time-limited emergency use of strychnine to address millions of dollars worth of damage in Alberta and Saskatchewan caused by an infestation of Richardson's ground squirrels, known colloquially as gophers.
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Mar 30, 2026
Wildlife photographer Jason Leo Bantle tells The National about the moment Banff National Park's famous grizzly bear, 'The Boss,' came out of hibernation.
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Mar 30, 2026
Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment have decided to part ways with Toronto Maple Leafs General Manager Brad Treliving.
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Mar 30, 2026
March 30, 2026 | U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to 'completely obliterate' Iran's power plants, oil infrastructure and even desalination plants, unless a deal is reached. Air Canada's embattled CEO announces his retirement. And legendary Canadian pop star Céline Dion announces her big comeback.
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Mar 30, 2026
Alberta's government is calling on Ottawa to change the Constitution to give provinces more of a say in how judges are appointed at the provincial level.
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Mar 30, 2026
A Sooke, B.C., youth has been arrested and charged after online chats with a U.S. teenager who allegedly made school shooting threats, RCMP say.
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Mar 30, 2026
Every province that has released a 2026-27 budget is projecting a deficit. But is that cause for concern?
Note: P.E.I and Newfoundland and Labrador had not yet released their budgets at the time of publication.
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Mar 30, 2026
A week of negotiations has led to 40 species added on a list of protections under the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, the 15th meeting of countries that are party to a UN treaty signed in 1979.
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Mar 30, 2026
A man who crashed his pickup truck into a Detroit-area synagogue earlier in March was carrying out an attack inspired by the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and had sought to inflict as much damage as possible, the FBI said Monday.
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Mar 30, 2026
As Dayan Goodenowe makes new claims about a potential treatment for Alzheimer's, a former investor says the controversial Moose Jaw-based scientist has a history of making unproven promises that he can't keep.
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Mar 30, 2026
At least 70 people were killed and 30 injured during an attack near Petite-Rivière in Haiti's Artibonite region, a human rights ?group said on Monday, numbers that were significantly higher than official estimates which put the death toll at around 16.
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Mar 30, 2026
At least 70 people were killed and 30 injured during an attack in Haiti's breadbasket Artibonite region, a human rights ?group said on Monday, significantly higher than official estimates.
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Mar 30, 2026
If Bill 23 passes, it would be the third time the United Conservative government has substantively amended the Citizen Initiative Act, and the second substantive set amendments to recall legislation since those two democratic options were introduced in 2021.
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Mar 30, 2026
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has approved a landmark First Nations child welfare deal between the federal government and First Nations in Ontario, partially ending a decades-long discrimination case.
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Mar 30, 2026
Peel Regional Police are leading an investigation into allegations of child abuse at Robert Land Academy, a military-style private school for boys in Ontario's Niagara Region that operated for decades until last year. Dozens of former students have alleged physical and emotional abuse, and in some cases, sexual exploitation.
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Mar 30, 2026
Avi Lewis, a former television host, journalist and documentarian, promises to make the federal NDP relevant again. But the first question for his leadership is whether he'll do so at the expense of the NDP's provincial wings.
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Mar 30, 2026
It's Céline Dion's 58th birthday, but it's her adoring fans who may be receiving the biggest gift of all — her return to the concert stage.
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Mar 30, 2026
The bill's passage marked the culmination of a years-long push by Israel's far-right to escalate punishment for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic offenses against Israelis.
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Mar 30, 2026
Pay attention to the link between heart and brain health, new Canadian recommendations say.
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Mar 30, 2026
The RCMP says an Air Canada employee is facing charges after allegedly trying to export more than 60 kilograms of cannabis out of a Toronto airport by using suitcases tagged with the names of two unsuspecting passengers.
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Mar 30, 2026
The UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said ?two of its members were killed in ?southern Lebanon on ?Monday after an explosion of "unknown origin" ?destroyed their vehicle.
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Mar 30, 2026
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne is visiting China later this week, a spokesperson in his office confirmed Monday.
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Mar 30, 2026
The federal and provincial governments will each spend $4.4 billion on housing-related infrastructure over the next 10 years. The majority of the funding is intended to help cover those infrastructure costs for municipalities that lower development charges.
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Mar 30, 2026
A humpback whale that was freed after becoming stuck for several days in shallow water at a Baltic Sea resort in Germany was stranded again on Saturday after failing to find its way back to the Atlantic Ocean.
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Mar 30, 2026
Thieves made off with three paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth millions of euros from a museum near the city of Parma in northern Italy, police said on Monday.
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Mar 30, 2026
GrS Montreal, the sole clinic in Quebec offering fully subsidized gender-affirming surgeries, recently announced that a change in provincial funding will delay wait times — possibly by years — but only for Quebec patients.
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Mar 30, 2026
Gunmen killed more than 70 people in South Sudan over a gold mining row on the outskirts of the capital over the weekend, a police spokesperson confirmed on Monday.
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Mar 30, 2026
A Ukrainian refugee says Manitoba's rejection of her requests to help her remove her deadname from official documents leaves her exposed to transphobia and infringes on her right to express her gender.
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Mar 30, 2026
A look at allegations of market manipulation and insider trading around Trump's conduct of the war in Iran and other major White House moves.
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Mar 30, 2026
A veteran from Fall River, N.S., received a letter from Veterans Affairs in February that he owed nearly $70,000 in overpaid benefits. He won't have to pay, but he worries about other veterans in a similar circumstance.
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Mar 30, 2026
The 2026 Juno Awards swept through a short list of awards and long list of performances Sunday night, honouring up-and-comers and staples of the Canadian music scene.
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Mar 30, 2026
Despite increases to provincial funding in recent years, the percentage of children with autism registered with the Ontario Autism Program and receiving funding had yet to crack 25 per cent as of early this year — as demand for the funding continues to grow.
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Mar 30, 2026
A Quebec coroner has concluded that the death of a 97-year-old woman at CHSLD LaSalle in 2024 was accidental. But in her report, the coroner raised questions about why the employee on duty at the time didn't report the fall or follow established protocol.
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Mar 30, 2026
The U.S. oil blockade has pushed Cuba into a third month of energy crisis, deepening daily hardship in a country already strained by crumbling infrastructure. But amid the darkness, some Cubans still see hope for a better future.
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Mar 30, 2026
After a week that saw a scathing auditor general's report find the federal Immigration Department has failed to act on fraud in its international student program, a major bill reforming immigration powers is now law in Canada.
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Mar 30, 2026
An Ottawa father says he was shocked to discover that his teenage son had ordered banned pharmaceuticals from the internet, and is warning others about websites that he says are putting kids at risk.
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Mar 29, 2026
Charlie Kramer and his parents, Maya and Richard Kramer, tell The National about the moment they caught the Toronto Blue Jays' first home run ball of the 2026 season.
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Mar 29, 2026
A B.C. mother detained with her seven-year-old at an immigration holding facility in Texas is warning others about the risks of navigating the U.S. immigration system under the current administration.
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Mar 29, 2026
March 29, 2026 | Newly elected federal NDP Leader Avi Lewis outlines his plans to re-shape the party. Go Public investigates after an airline denies passenger compensation, but flight records show planes were swapped. And, the countdown begins for the latest Artemis launch window.
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Mar 29, 2026
Mikaël Kingsbury's last run in competition took place on his home mountain of Saint-Sauveur, Que. The moguls star might be retiring from the sport but for some he is a living legend who has inspired a new generation of freestyle skiers.
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Mar 29, 2026
Stars make bold statements at Canada's biggest night in music.
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Mar 29, 2026
Canadian Olympian Josh Liendo capped an historic week of swimming at the NCAA championships on Saturday in Atlanta, posting a wire-to-wire victory in the 100-yard freestyle for a record-tying fourth consecutive title in the event and ninth overall.
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Mar 29, 2026
Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck has slammed newly-elected federal NDP leader Avi Lewis over his stance on fossil fuels projects.
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