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[published_date] A fast-moving storm brought hail the size of golf balls, winds above 90 km/h, damage to trees and localized power outages into the Calgary area on Sunday. Northeast Calgary experienced wind gusts of up to 93 km/h around 8 p.m., according to Environment Canada. Kyle Brittain, a freelance climate journalist, told CBC's The Homestretch…

[published_date] Canadian rocker Matthew Good has cut upcoming U.S. shows from his summer tour, saying he can't support government policies and political divisions south of the border and that he's unlikely to perform in the country again until political tides turn.  Good, 54, announced the cancellations in a Facebook post on Friday morning, saying he's willing to…

[published_date] Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for a tougher stance on immigration, saying Monday he wants to see "very hard caps" on the number of newcomers allowed into the country. Speaking to reporters at a news conference in Ottawa, Poilievre said the country has struggled to integrate newcomers and he wants to see more people…

[published_date] Jim Clancy, who made his Major League debut during the Toronto Blue Jays' 1977 expansion season and spent 12 seasons with the club as a key member of its starting rotation, has died at 69. The Blue Jays confirmed Clancy's death in a social media post Monday. A cause of death was not given.…

[published_date] The municipal building in the central P.E.I. town of Kensington was shut as a precaution on Monday night after someone brought a "potentially hazardous object" to the police force headquartered there.  The episode meant the town's planned council meeting had to be postponed for a day because of what a social media post called…

[published_date] A Quebec Mountie is under criminal investigation for allegedly making threatening remarks online during their deployment at the G7 summit last month, the RCMP confirms.  The Journal de Montréal first reported the news and said the officer's alleged remarks were made about U.S. President Donald Trump. The French-language newspaper, citing sources, also said the…

[published_date] Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pointing to a list of assets that Prime Minister Mark Carney transferred to a blind trust as evidence that the Liberal leader wasn't being honest with Canadians on the campaign trail.  Last week, the ethics commissioner publicized a list of Carney's investments before they were transferred to the trust.…

[published_date] Canada's parole board has revoked day parole for the woman who killed 14-year-old B.C. teen Reena Virk, following a series of positive drug tests and behaviours the board said represent "an undue risk to society." According to parole documents, Kerry Sim — who was known as Kelly Ellard in 1997 when she killed Virk — first saw…

[published_date] Hudson's Bay is firing back at one of its biggest lenders. A new court filing from the defunct department store's chief financial officer pushes back on the lender's calls to subject the retailer to more oversight because it allegedly mishandled its liquidation and is hopelessly pursuing a deal to sell 25 of its leases.…

[published_date] A Brampton man accused of defrauding more than a dozen would-be homeowners is now facing additional criminal charges, while a civil lawyer says dozens more alleged victims have recently come forward claiming they were also defrauded.  Moiz Kunwar, 28, is accused of taking deposits for pre-construction homes he was not authorized to sell, which were built…

[published_date] An American helicopter manufacturer has reached a confidential settlement with the families of six Canadian military members killed in a helicopter crash off the coast of Greece five years ago. The families sued Sikorsky in 2023 after a CH-148 Cyclone flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force crashed into the Ionian Sea at full speed in…

[published_date] Chidi Nwagbo says he made a "stupid" decision paying human smugglers to get him into Canada that left him permanently scarred and in the hands of the very U.S. immigration authorities he was trying to flee.     The 57-year-old says he paid $2,000 US in cash to a human smuggling organization in New Jersey to escape the immigration…